Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob, my earlier Maxtor One Touch has Retrospect express (a cheaper version than the full retail). You can opt for compressed or non-compressed copies. I use the non-compressed. You can browse the drive exactly as any other, including in computers without Retrospect installed. I didn't find the Retrospect interface especially intuitive but once set up it is simple and automated. A restoration after a drive failure is not exactly simple, however where you just want to copy specified directories I would recommend it. Once a session, push a button (after initial setup). Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Robert D. Baron Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2007 10:36 To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: Re: [Leica] Question Re Backing Up to External Hard Drives Thanks for the quick responses. I am not sure I am a Luddite but I am definitely ignorant. As I understand Retrospect (don't know about other programs) it does the backing up in some language or compression of its own. Thus to restore what it has backed up you need to have the software at hand to expand or read the backups. If I just copy over the images to these external drives I won't have to worry about that. This would be slower of course but much easier for me to deal with. KISS, as Ted might say. What I want to back up / store / save are photographs. I can remember to do the backups most every time I am working with my photographs, I think, which for me is (unfortunately) not nearly as often as I would like. Think of it as putting the negatives back in their glassines after a printing session. Does this make sense? --Bob _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information