Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm assuming that regular Leopard will work with Lightroom 3. As I have 99 bucks set aside to upgrade to it from Lightroom 1 and I'm hoping for a change of my world. -- Mark R. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 23:10:50 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Looking For Simple, Automated, Cross-Platform Back Up > Solution.... > > Before I upgraded from Tiger to Snow Leopard, done only because > Lightroom 3 would not run on Tiger, I used a very inexpensive backup > program called Carbon Copy Cloner. This is a program which I highly > recommend to you as a supplement, and I'll explain why. > > I have two disks on line. One is a 250 GB disk that Time Machine uses > to back up my internal disk. The other is a 1 TB "portable" disk > (portable, because I'm running out of desk space and wanted something > small). This terabyte disk is the one on which LR stores my DNG (raw) > files. After a while, I decided that my negatives ought to be backed > up. So I bought a second portable TB disk and every so often I plug > it in to the computer and use Carbon Copy Cloner to back up the > negatives. > > I suggest you be cautions about upgrading to Lion. From a description > I read, Apple is trying to make the Mac seem more like the iPad. If > you're interested, send me an email, and I'll dig up a link a friend > sent me, a video of a user ranting about the things he didn't like > about Lion, a rant replete with much bad language. > > Herb > > >> ....if there is such a thing. >> >> I just bought a brand new but mid-2010 27" i7 iMac. Although I've >> used recent MacBooks when traveling I've got no experience with >> Apple's built-in Time Machine or other similar third party back up >> software. (The iMac has Snow Leopard OS, I can upgrade it to Lion at >> no dollar cost but am waiting a little bit longer to be sure of it.) >> >> I moved to the iMac from a desktop PC running Windows XP Pro SP3. I >> use the computer(s) mainly for photo image storage and processing. My >> workflow is based upon Lightroom (now v3.4.1) and I plan to stick >> with it. In the PC I had three internal hard drives, one for >> programs and 2 dedicated to image files. They were formatted as >> Windows NTFS. In preparation for the switch I formatted an external >> drive as FAT32 and copied all the image files to it. Now with the >> iMac I have Lightroom installed on its internal hard drive (formatted >> Mac OS) but keep the image files on the external hard drive and >> access them as needed. So far, so good. >> >> I'd like to keep the image files on the external FAT32 disk in case I >> need to access them from a PC running Windows. I know I can manually >> drag and drop them them from the external drive where they permanently >> reside to a backup drive but since there are a lot of them it would be >> a long process of copying whereas I would ideally prefer to have >> software that will just add new files or changes to the backup. >> >> The problem arose when I tried to set up Time Machine to back up both >> the internal hard drive and the external external drive. It will >> back up the former but not the latter. It tells me it does not >> interact with FAT32 disks. >> >> Any thoughts, explanations and/or solutions for establishing a >> simple, single (preferably automated) back up routine for both >> internal and external drives will be most appreciated. >> >> --Bob >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, > for they are subtle and will pee > on your computer! > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information