Backing up a catalog to multiple drives
I want to back up my catalog to my C drive and also keep a safety copy on an external drive. What are best practices? Can I safely alternate which destination I choose each time I exit or do I risk anything this way? Maybe my question really is: is a backup self contained or does it rely in part on previous backup files?
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Check out the official knowledge base: https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&type=knowledge_base&query=backup
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The backup is self-contained in that it is not incremental and does not depend on previous backups. But remember that the backup only backs up the catalog database, with its information on edits, etc. It does NOT back up the actual image files.
So... presumably you have a system backup strategy in place anyway to back up the image files (and other valuable content on your computer)? If so, that can include backing up the Capture One backups from the C drive.
Ian
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Thanks for responding. Why does Capture One recommend keeping more than one chronological backup. Do they sometimes not work so you have to use an older one?
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I suppose that it's a matter of being suitable cautious. If you had a problem with your catalog in some way, you might want to have more than one backup in case the most recent one had backed up the catalog with its problem. But there is no point keeping very old ones because they won't have backups of recent work. I go through mine from time to time and delete older ones, just keeping the last few. (Your question has prompted me to do it again, and from all that are there waiting to be deleted I see that I have left it rather a long time to do some tidying up!)
Ian
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Thanks Ian!
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Regards
Per
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