Mac for Photography work

[robgendreau]

I checked this out and was surprised to find that you need to quit LR to perform a backup. Doesn't really make sense to me. With Aperture, I used Carbon Copy Cloner to make regular scheduled copies of my A3 library on an external drive. Also backed up the entire system on another drive. Going go a RAID system when I replace my computer.

Dale

You may not be aware of it, but Lr utilizes a database that is essentially always open when Lr is. The recommended practice is for that to be shut down when doing a backup either via Lr or via TM or whatever, since the open state of the db could result in a corrupted backup or problems when restoring. You might have been having the same issue when you cloned the database Aperture uses. Probably most of the time you can get away with either (indeed, many folks just use TM on Lr's catalogs and never have a problem). But it's not the safest method. Here, just as an example, is what CrashPlan says about it: https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Backup/Backing_Up_Open_Files_And_Databases

 

[Designer Dale]

You may not be aware of it, but Lr utilizes a database that is essentially always open when Lr is. The recommended practice is for that to be shut down when doing a backup either via Lr or via TM or whatever, since the open state of the db could result in a corrupted backup or problems when restoring. You might have been having the same issue when you cloned the database Aperture uses. Probably most of the time you can get away with either (indeed, many folks just use TM on Lr's catalogs and never have a problem). But it's not the safest method. Here, just as an example, is what CrashPlan says about it: https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Backup/Backing_Up_Open_Files_And_Databases

Thanks for the helpful info.

Dale

 

[simonsi]

You may not be aware of it, but Lr utilizes a database that is essentially always open when Lr is. The recommended practice is for that to be shut down when doing a backup either via Lr or via TM or whatever, since the open state of the db could result in a corrupted backup or problems when restoring.

Just for general info but this definitely applies to Capture One Pro too - in general backing up any open DB can give rise to problems when restoring.