Comments on: Tips for Creating Your Best Photo Storage and Backup Plan

By: Darlene Hildebrandt

Darlene Hildebrandt — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 01:47:48 +0000

@fabriziobertorino:disqus and just to be clear
1 – catalog on the internal drive
2 – images on the external

By: Darlene Hildebrandt

Darlene Hildebrandt — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 01:47:03 +0000

In reply to Fabrizio Bertorino. @fabriziobertorino:disqus yes always. Most internal drives are now SSD so it will always run faster that way. Constantly writing to an external with a database is also a good way to kill your external drive fast

By: Fabrizio Bertorino

Fabrizio Bertorino — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 01:19:49 +0000

Thanks, excellent article!
Your suggestions for having LR catalog on the hd of the laptop and not on an external drive are for Luminar Neo as well?

By: Darlene Hildebrandt

Darlene Hildebrandt — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 08:57:08 +0000

In reply to Jerry Gladstone. @jerrygladstone:disqus great job sounds like a solid system!

By: Jerry Gladstone

Jerry Gladstone — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 20:26:53 +0000

Thanks, Darlene, for recommending GoodSync (actually most recently in your Luminar Neo course)! I’ve started using it to simplify my backup routine. I keep my photos on a large, second drive in my desktop (not the solid state drive that runs Windows and apps), and I back up all photos and my Lightroom catalog daily to an always-attached portable USB drive, and weekly to a second USB drive that lives in my basement, in addition to automated cloud backups. Now, I’ve set up jobs in GoodSync to do all the copying automatically, and it saves all the deleted files (quite a lot, since I’ve been culling 2 years of old photos that are duplicates or not so great, to save disk space) to the History folder on the backup drive, so it’s a modified, one-way sync. Each backup is always a copy of the current Pictures folder from my desktop, plus an archive of the deleted stuff, which will get permanently deleted from History, if I don’t manually retrieve it, after a year. I even set it to automatically copy my Lightroom catalog backups whenever the second drive from the basement gets plugged in. All these settings are easily availble in GoodSync, and I found I only need to be mildly tech-savvy to deal with it all, ignoring the more advance options. I am delighted, as now I will spend much less time keeping track of which folders need backups every day and every week. Ahhh! And I learned years ago that you can never have too many backups!

By: Darlene Hildebrandt

Darlene Hildebrandt — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 21:11:04 +0000

In reply to RH6194. @rh6194:disqus yes that is fine. You just want your backups on a different drive than your original LR catalog. Then make sure you backup your photos somewhere else as well.

By: RH6194

RH6194 — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 05:51:12 +0000

I see in your screenshots of your external G-Drive your have a top-level Photos folder and a LR Backups folder, Is the LR Backups the folder for backing up your LR catalog(s)? Or asked more directly, is it okay to backup my catalog to the same external drive as my images are on?