Could someone tell me a backup strategy?
Hi all
I'm relatively new to C1 Pro (from Aperture on Mac) and searching the help files for backup isn't helping me, so I'm asking here.
I keep all my images in one Catalog, with separate albums for the shoots. It's all on my main computer hard drive in the pictures folder.
Every so often when I quit, it asks me if I want to back up the catalogue. This backs up to a folder on my desktop, containing folders each with an updated catalog.db and the adjustments folder, with the adjustments themselves in folder called LAM.
That backed up catalogue doesn't contain the original RAW files. Going into the Pictures folder inside my Home folder, I find the Capture One Catalog package. Opening that package reveals the same as that catalog folder on my desktop, plus the originals.
How can I back up the whole lot to an external disk - adjustments, catalog and importantly the original RAW files? Clearly I cold just manually copy the package every so often, but is there a way I can get Capture One to do it incrementally when I quit, like it does to the catalog except the originals?
Many thanks
Paul
I'm relatively new to C1 Pro (from Aperture on Mac) and searching the help files for backup isn't helping me, so I'm asking here.
I keep all my images in one Catalog, with separate albums for the shoots. It's all on my main computer hard drive in the pictures folder.
Every so often when I quit, it asks me if I want to back up the catalogue. This backs up to a folder on my desktop, containing folders each with an updated catalog.db and the adjustments folder, with the adjustments themselves in folder called LAM.
That backed up catalogue doesn't contain the original RAW files. Going into the Pictures folder inside my Home folder, I find the Capture One Catalog package. Opening that package reveals the same as that catalog folder on my desktop, plus the originals.
How can I back up the whole lot to an external disk - adjustments, catalog and importantly the original RAW files? Clearly I cold just manually copy the package every so often, but is there a way I can get Capture One to do it incrementally when I quit, like it does to the catalog except the originals?
Many thanks
Paul
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Decent question Paul; did you ever get any input? I don't have any to give, but would be interested in whatever comes your way.
Andrew0 -
i don't use the CO catalog, but that shouldn't matter much.
I backup the catalog of my DAM and my files separately:
to NAS
to 2 cloud backup services0 -
I hate the idea of catalog's so only use sessions in C1, and software called Chronosync to perform backups.
For example on a shoot I would shoot into my main RAID5 SSD box, which then has two chronosync windows open, each syncing to:
RAID5 Shoot Drive -> Portable Drive 1
RAID5 Shoot Drive -> Portable Drive 2
When I'm home I just transfer the main session into my desktop drive.0 -
bennettandyp wrote:
Decent question Paul; did you ever get any input? I don't have any to give, but would be interested in whatever comes your way.
Andrew
No. It seems most people use sessions. People obviously do back up their RAWs, but I don't know how. I will attempt to find a way that works for me and report back.
Ah well.
Paul0 -
I only use catalogues, always back up everything from my E drive to a second drive, this incs all my images and the catalogue files. Also just started backing all images to Amazon Cloud using syncback as you get unlimited storage of picures, raws included. 0 -
You have two backup features in C1 itself:
- Backup the pictures on import. This copies every image to a folder when you import them.
- Backup the catalogue to a folder.
(The first is obviously not doing anything for your existing images.)
But, as others have also suggested, it's probably better to use an external backup program. I use Time Machine for my entire home folder (containing the catalogue), and Crashplan to backup *everything* in 2 places: my NAS and on Crashplan's servers. That includes backing up the images that are located on an external disk (I let C1 backup the catalogue to that external disk as well).
If one would really really want to play it safe, one would use more than one online backup service, just in case 😊
HTH!
Peter.0 -
Christwo wrote:
I only use catalogues, always back up everything from my E drive to a second drive, this incs all my images and the catalogue files. Also just started backing all images to Amazon Cloud using syncback as you get unlimited storage of picures, raws included.
I yes, having explored the structure of the catalog on my HD this makes sense.
Paul0 -
All useful.
And I forgot my C1 Catalog and images have in the meantime been going to my Time Machine. I excluded my Aperture catalog from TM to avoid the TM getting bloated, and used separate HDs instead. But Aperture had an obvious way to backup from within the program itself; C1 doesn't. You have to do it yourself.
Thanks for the advice
Paulpeter.f wrote:
You have two backup features in C1 itself:
- Backup the pictures on import. This copies every image to a folder when you import them.
- Backup the catalogue to a folder.
(The first is obviously not doing anything for your existing images.)
But, as others have also suggested, it's probably better to use an external backup program. I use Time Machine for my entire home folder (containing the catalogue), and Crashplan to backup *everything* in 2 places: my NAS and on Crashplan's servers. That includes backing up the images that are located on an external disk (I let C1 backup the catalogue to that external disk as well).
If one would really really want to play it safe, one would use more than one online backup service, just in case 😊
HTH!
Peter.0 -
C1 has ability to back up catalogs ONLY for cases if structure of catalog been damaged.
And that already saved me couple works.
I have a spare raid drive on which I periodically manually move catalogs that are longer not in use.0
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