Can someone help me with Catalogue backups please?

Jason Leaman

• July 09, 2014 15:11

Hi,

So I'm using a managed Catalogue system/ virtual organisation. C1 is packaging my images into the catalogue, and I'm setting up Projects with albums and smart albums. It works very well, and it's the way I want my workflow to work.

My question is this:

I can back up my catalogue database, but it doesn't appear to back up the originals at the same time.
I can back up my originals from within OS X using something like Chronosync, but haven't tested to see if the backed up database will be able to ingest these originals and apply adjustments should I ever need to reboot.

I'm coming from an Aperture background. Aperture has a great vault system that backs up and syncs the entire managed library with one click. All the masters/originals and all of the adjustments. To an external drive, or even to a NAS.
Can Capture One Pro do this (or something similar)? What's the best and clearest way to back up a managed catalogue?

Thanks for your help!

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  sizzlingbadger

  • July 09, 2014 20:16

  Backup the catalog and the master images with Chronosync or TimeMachine etc while CO is not running. The built in catalog backup is useless.

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  Jason Leaman

  • July 09, 2014 20:20

  Really?
  I don't mind doing this (if it works) but there must be a better way?

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  PhaseoneUser55657

  • July 10, 2014 10:37

  Ya, CO7 backup of a catalog is a real joke. As they are coming from the "Session" only type in CO6, maybe all they thought they needed to backup was the DB file. When a "Catalog" is backed up it should back up enough data to restore the "Catalog" as of the last backup, to me this would include all adjustments, layer masks, previews (OK they should be able to be regenerated, but if I have 100K images, I rather have them backed up), and if the images are not referenced then the images themselves. The strange part is at one point maybe 7.0.0 or so, it did seem like it backed everything up, but as items were added it was taking longer and longer to do the backup, as it was creating a new backup every time.
  
  The other part is I don't need a new backup created every time it does a backup. I only need one that is kept up to date. As I have mine set to do a backup on every close, I am often going into the "backup directory" and clearing out old backups. I do not understand that, I really don't need a day by day history of backups. One full backup of everything is all that is needed.
  
  Robert

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