Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]zfs is a file system and ecc is memory correction. typically all desktops and laptops do not take ecc memory unless u have a server mother board and zfs by itself is not good enough u need hardware protection also. ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Adam, and Piers. Indeed it appears that I should simply continue my > existing import-export routine. > > Adam, I have no idea what ZFS/ECC is, and I don?t really want to know :-) > i have two backups of everything, that should be good enough (and was, when > I had a hard disk crash recently). > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 12 May 2015, at 04:31, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote: > > > > This is the route I have chosen, Nathan. > > > > I have a Thunderbolt external drive that I export to, then import from > on my dekstop system. Everything moves across, both systems are happy. > > > > I have started to worry about data integrity. A few dropped bits in the > wrong part of an image file and you have garbage. The Mac isn?t > particularly good for that. And the ?cloud?? Who knows what sort of > software is running up there? Do they really care? We can?t know. > > > > I keep hoping that Apple will get religion, adopt or create something > like ZFS and put ECC memory in all their machines showing they DO care > about my data. > > > > In the meantime I have started computing check-sums for my images and > saving those. It doesn?t consume a lot of time although it?s just extra > book keeping. > > > > Maybe I?m paranoid. > > > > Adam > > > >> On 2015 May 10, at 6:16 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > >> > >> I work with Lightroom on my laptop and on my desktop. Until now my > typical pattern has been to work on the laptop during trips and then do an > ?export as catalog? and import that catalog into the main catalog on the > desktop computer. I wonder if there is a more elegant way to synch the > catalogs on the two computers?is there some cloud magic that can be used? > >> > >> I run LR 5.7 on Mac OS X Yosemite on both computers. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Nathan > >> > >> Nathan Wajsman > >> Alicante, Spain > >> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > >> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > >> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > >> YNWA > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >