darkroomdemon
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I hope that I am not bothering the wrong folks with this.
I am a photographer with 12 years of digital images.
My Raw Archive contains over 100 GB of image files.
My Working folder contains over 80 GB.
Plus there are various and numerous project files.
My G5 has two internal drives:
Drive A @160 GB (soon to be 500 GB)
Drive B @ 500 GB
I currently do manual backups to two external 500GB LaCie drives, one for each internal drive.
My workflow often requires that I work in/out of many different folders and the manual drag/copy/overwrite dance is killing me.
Incremental backup would be sweet.
I have tried Retrospect, but the manual brought tears to my eyes and my first two trial attempts were busts.
Do I upgrade to Leopard and use Time Machine?
Time Machine with Time Capsule?
Time machine with LaCie externals?
Use Lacie's SilverKeeper?
Shoot myself now?
Etc.
I am not looking for a hobby. I need this backup process to be easy to set up and run, automatic and reliable.
Can anyone shed light on this mess?
Or should I go back to film? I know where that stuff is.
I thank you all in advance.
Cheers,
Leland
PS I also have a 1 TB external in an off site place and bring it to the studio once a month for an extended backup of everything.
I am a photographer with 12 years of digital images.
My Raw Archive contains over 100 GB of image files.
My Working folder contains over 80 GB.
Plus there are various and numerous project files.
My G5 has two internal drives:
Drive A @160 GB (soon to be 500 GB)
Drive B @ 500 GB
I currently do manual backups to two external 500GB LaCie drives, one for each internal drive.
My workflow often requires that I work in/out of many different folders and the manual drag/copy/overwrite dance is killing me.
Incremental backup would be sweet.
I have tried Retrospect, but the manual brought tears to my eyes and my first two trial attempts were busts.
Do I upgrade to Leopard and use Time Machine?
Time Machine with Time Capsule?
Time machine with LaCie externals?
Use Lacie's SilverKeeper?
Shoot myself now?
Etc.
I am not looking for a hobby. I need this backup process to be easy to set up and run, automatic and reliable.
Can anyone shed light on this mess?
Or should I go back to film? I know where that stuff is.
I thank you all in advance.
Cheers,
Leland
PS I also have a 1 TB external in an off site place and bring it to the studio once a month for an extended backup of everything.