Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I use a program called Bounce Back which came with my Seagate external HD. It's the first backup program that I've used which is user friendly, easy to understand and, once the original back up is performed, simply finds the updated files and duplicates them. It essentially mirrors what ever I do each day. The back up is automatically performed at the same time each day and occurs in the background if I'm working. Regards, George Lottermoser george@imagist.com On May 23, 2007, at 7:36 PM, Robert D. Baron wrote: > 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?