Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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!