FGSC-bad Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 Hi, Damien, Do you have any resources that outline best practice for backing up LR and Raw photos to avoid losing everything if/when an external hard drive crashes? This would be in addition to standard LR backup upon quitting the program. I keep everything on an external HDD but am thinking I need some redundancy in the cloud or Time Machine or? I’m on a MacBook Pro. Thanks so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 This is such a good question. It's a question that I hope everybody asks of themselves. Data is never safe unless it exists in at least two different places. So yes, if your photos are on an external hard drive, you need to have a constantly-updated mirror copy of that drive's data on either another drive, or on a cloud service. Having two drives means that if one drive fails, it's very quick and easy to get up and running again from the other drive. But it leaves you vulnerable to disasters such as fire or theft. On the other hand, keeping your files on a cloud server means that they're safe from fire or theft at your house; but of course the file transfer is significantly slower. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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