Let's Talk About Backup for Photographers & Filmmakers
Вставка
- Опубліковано 1 лис 2024
- Backup tips for photographers & video creators using Lightroom and Chronosync
Listen to the podcast www.stalmanpodc...
Try Setapp for a bunch of my favourite apps stpp.co/stalman
Follow me on Instagram - / stalman
Follow me on Twitter - / stalman
Where I get music & SFX bit.ly/2wmelx9
Cloud backups: I didn’t touch on them in this video because for most working photographers that shoot raw, there can never be enough bandwidth to keep your photos synced online. The ways I do backup online are that all our final client photos are stored in Dropbox, and our phones are always backed up to iCloud and Google Photos. If I had a fibre ISP, I would definitely be using other services but at the moment it doesn’t make sense.
I think you are underrating cloud backup speeds. The inital backup will take forever but the daily backup should not be an issue.
Not sure what your speeds are but I’m on a 400/25 connection and I can upload 1TB and not that much time. A couple days, at most. I upload my photos and videos to a couple places.
Yea this is how I do it also. I only use cloud backup for the final edited jpg. Not raws
Same here, I use GSuite for everything for my agency. For photos the working photographer has the Lightroom catalog on their local machine and all the images are stored on the Drive. When the project is done, the Lightroom file goes in the same folder. For video editors, we use a SSD for the editor and when the project is done, same thing the project gets dumped onto the Drive. All the raw files for everything are put into the Drive as well in a raw media folder just in case. Google Drive has a create backup and if you delete something accidentally (like someone did a few weeks ago with an accidental COMMAND+DELETE) I can go in and restore everything within a couple seconds and everyone has access to everything that they need.
Most importantly, this only works if you’ve got Uber fast internet. We used to have Fibre 150/150 and it was OK, but Lightroom would lag significantly. With the new 300/300 we have there’s zero lag.
too late i had a raid mirrored totally fail and the files could not be recovered 5 years of photos , gone
Kudos to those who do all this backing up a back up for a back up on your backups. I'm just over here living on the edge of corruption.
Jamison Michael - “living on the edge of corruption”😆 after experiencing 2 horrible corruptions, I’m finally here, seeking wiser solutions
Zottjes That’s incredible! Good to know-hopefully WD offers that too
Zottjes Oh no! Any updates?
@@zottjes6838 Did they recovered ur data?
@@zottjes6838 I couldn't follow...was it free or $900?
My suggested solution:
1. Ongoing work-in-progress on external hard drive with backup to another external hard drive (your solution)
2. Last 5 years of finished work files (RAW) on local NAS with backup to external hard drive kept in another building
3. RAW files older than 5 years on external hard drive with backup to external hard drive kept in another building
4. All finished work (JPG) on the NAS with external hard drive backup
5. All finished work (JPG) also and on the Cloud if I need to access it while I'm out in the field. I have 1TB of storage on Onedrive with my Office 365 subscription
This sounds pretty reasonable and is pretty close to what I plan to adopt. Thanks! 😁
Kraig Adams would have an anxiety attack with all the backup hard drives.
haha good one :)
iJustine had pretty much the same storage problem that you have, so she called in Linus from Linus Tech Tips in Burnaby B.C. do a collab and build her a custom storage system so she wouldn’t have scores of portable hard drives littering her home. He did a great job.
Linus is a guru at this stuff, but unfortunately I’m not iJustine 😁
Tyler Stalman There is that :)
Isn't Linus in Surrey, BC?
TheNewGreenIsBlue Burnaby or Surrey, yes.
This is a great reminder and well thought out. A DP I used to work always says, "If it's not in 3 places, it doesn't exist." A friend of mine takes things a step further and does a cold-storage NAS pair that goes into a rotation that moves offsite to another location on a monthly basis.
I have this video saved in a playlist so I can always refer back to it. It’s that useful!
Thank you Tyler!
You are missing an essential scenario: a physical event at your home, such as a fire. This is why you should always save a copy of your data offsite. To me, the logical solution is to get a faster connection and use the cloud. If you cannot or will not do that, store your backup drives somewhere else.
Yup i store my offshore backup in my parents house
This is really a terrible system he has, he needs to get a home server or NAS.
@@legotech101 no he just needs an off-site backup
@@jonneymendoza but he also needs a professional storage system. Raid bays and NAS storage exist for a reason. You only need portable drives for work on the go. Pro archival needs pro storage
@@0741921 nope.just back stuff up the old fashioned way and store the backup in your parents house etc etc
I didn't even need any of the information from this video, I just loved how beautiful it looked lol
Some great tips here. I don't think I use anywhere near as much drive space as you (maybe around 2TB per year of photos), but my solution might be appealing now that you are on team USB-C.
I use the same dongle as you when I'm mobile, and the CalDigit TS3 at my desk (I used to have the Plugable Thunderbolt 3 dock, but it only passes 60W of charging, and I wanted the full 80 for my MBP 15"). At first I grumbled about the "forced" USB-C life, but now that I've bought all the cables/adapters, it's honestly pretty great. I use ONE cable to "dock" my computer at my desk, which connects to a 16tb Promise RAID (TB2) daisy chained to an apple cinema display, and then my BenQ SW2700PT, other external drives (time machine, mobile disks), and a big USB-A hub for all the other things. I basically have a full desktop workstation with one cable and my laptop in clamshell mode with my wireless keyboard/mouse, or a mobile editing solution.
I keep a copy of my current year on an SSD (1TB T5), as well as previous year copies on my Pegasus 16tb disk (in RAID 5, so 12 useable). When I'm home, I edit off of the Pegasus, when I'm mobile, off the T5. Instead of mirroring like you are, I use the "Synchronize Bidirectional" mode after either returning for a trip, or after an editing session if I'm at my desk. This keeps my Capture One library identical on my redundant "desktop" setup, and on my mobile drive. I then use a cheap Seagate 4tb drive (like yours) to make mirrored backups when mobile. I don't backup the Pegasus because RAID 5 is already redundant, and I have the T5 synchronized most of the time that I'm at my desk.
Now if only I could afford a few more Samsung T5 SSDs! Then I could have my entire library with me on the go. As it is now, I keep my 1TB with the current year of photos, which usually runs out sometime in the 6-8 month range 🙄 I then swap the library to a 2TB "slow" SSD, and leave the T5 empty for the rest of the year, or just make a new library for the rest of the year and merge them later.
There is a great workflow writeup that gave me some of the ideas I've employed, though I have modified it slightly (or don't do some of the things he recommends... mainly because I'm lazy). If I were to adhere to his methodology, I'd buy a NAS to backup my RAID, but I guess I'm willing to live on the edge a little and hope that I don't have two drives simultaneously fail at the same time that my mobile disks are corrupted 🤷🏻♂️
www.martinbaileyphotography.com/2017/04/26/the-mobile-photographers-image-management-strategy-podcast-570/
Thanks for sharing your tips about backup. It was very helpful!
Listening to this... This system is insane! The rule is simple: 3-2-1. Three backups, two local, one remote. Have one copy on your computer, and a large archive of all your photos that you backup to a much more stable system. I'm a huge fan of Synology NAS systems. That's where all your photos mostly live. That's your two local. Then you do another copy somewhere else. Maybe that's backing up your main machine via Crash Plan (great service) or rolling your own in some fashion. But that covers you way better for almost everything.
When you're on location? Two separate hard drives as you're doing now but you move data off of those ASAP as they are drives that get bumped around and are more prone to failure. You can also just get a single RAID 1 drive that'll protect you from a drive failure but two separate drives that are mirrored in some other way is still best.
If you want to avoid the "oh no, I deleted everything" issue, something like a Synology will have snapshots that will let you roll back deletions and versions of your backups.
This system covers you from:
- Failed hardware
- Corrupted files
- User error (why did you delete EVERYTHING?)
- Theft
- Property damage
- Fleeing the country due to a collapsing government...
I'm now in the same spot like you: many external hard drives, 1 NAS not so sure how to deal with it, a lot of new material every month, the same dilemma. I'll just keep watching you. It's fun. :)
Thanks so much for making this video man
Great video! One question, in Chronosync is there a reason that you use backup left to right vs mirror left to right?
The color correction and editing if this video is ON POINT!
"Two is one, and one is none." The codependent anthem. ;)
Great video, Tyler! One thing I would recommend checking out is Lightroom CC. It's not as powerful as Classic obviously, but if your editing workflow involves Classic AND Photoshop, then swapping CC for Classic isn't as big of a deal, you're just doing a little more lifting in PS. The thing I love most about CC is the cloud syncing and being able to tweak edits on my phone from anywhere when I have some time to kill but I'm without my laptop.
Tyler, your videos are always so informative and reassuring. Please never stop making content! You have a very unbiased approach in your videos and it's easy to see. I love your photographs/videos and so please keep educating us all. Thanks!
Perfect timing, thank you for making this video, Tyler!
Hope it helps!
Hope I'm not too late to know this~ I just started making film. I precious my work alot. I want to back them up and keep updating the data storage for them so the data can stays as long as I lived. Thanks for the sharing Tyler! Old video but Gold for me
Hi Tyler, something for you to consider: I'm a photographer and had the unfortunate experience of burglars breaking in and stealing my desktop computer AND backup hard drives (among many other things). What saved the day for me was a third OFFSITE backup. This was a duplicate backup of my entire computer hard drive, plus all important project files from the last 15 years of my working career. Without that offsite backup I would've been up the creek without a paddle.
It’s absolutely something we consider, just haven’t found a practical way to get all our raws to another location. Final jpgs are all in the cloud though
I had 5 back ups in HDDs and SSDs then my house burn down
I didn’t but can you imagine
store them in a fireproof box lol
Super helpful video being a working photographer too. I do more or less everything you covered, except for the chronosync bit, which will definitely clean up my routines - keep at it!
Love it!! I’ve always just bought new external every year. I also keep all my final Film and Photo client stuff in Google Drive unlimited storage. Great video.
What was the solution you found? I'm starting to run into that problem of several hard drives... Help🤷🏽
Get a raid hdd enclosure like from synology
I typically stick to the advice that recommends the 3-2-1 approach: 3 backups on 2 different media types -- 1 of those media should be offline (hence 3,2,1).
First time I heard to a real discussion of photography and video backup problems and solutions even though nothing is quite right, and everything helps. I'm in the same backup boat. Have tried several cloud based systems to supplement local backups but not finding them designed for me and have quit them both. Your discussion was helpful. I'll check out more of your work. Thanks.
User's comment: "Great video! Backup power is so important, especially when you're out camping or spending quality time with family. Can you recommend any specific brands or models for outdoor gear and home backup power products?"Reply: Absolutely! When it comes to outdoor gear and home backup power, I highly recommend the Segway Portable PowerStation Cube Series. It offers a massive capacity, powerful output, fast recharging, and comprehensive protections. Plus, its waterproof design ensures it's ready for any adventure, rain or shine. Check it out for reliable backup power during your camping trips or quality family time!
Great video! Thanks for sharing. You have to get a NAS. The methodology you are using is a PITB, and very risky. You can get a buy on time option if needed, and your efficiency will go way up and your risk way down. They also make it easy to do an online (Dropbox, etc) sync automatically as well.
Those JPEG’s that you record to your CF card. Do you do anything with them once your raw files are imported and backed up? I’m wondering if chucking those JPEG’s up in the cloud could be the ultimate location redundant back up
I delete the jpgs once the raws are backed up
Convenient.... I was literally just backing up all my stuff 😂😂😂
When I look at your videos 5 years ago and now. The growth is awesome.👍
Question. Do you store your photos and video in separate directories? Being a UA-camr, I often shoot both videos and photos on the same day so I keep them in the same project folder. I was wondering if anyone recommends one way vs another. Is it better to have a directory for ONLY photos and another for video projects? Thanks in advance!
One of the key reasons why Photo Digi Techs / Photographer’s preferred Capture One for years was their use of ‘Sessions’ instead of ‘Catalogues’. What that means is, each job you shoot is in a self contained folder hierarchy that can be moved and copied and opened independent of a home ‘Catalogue’. Whilst Lightroom may for the most part, work for a lot of your workflow- it obviously gets confusing and messy when you start talking about multiple computers, multiple drives, and multiple users.
A Capture1 Session can easily be moved from for eg a ‘on location’ shoot laptop, to 2 hardrives, to a home computer, to an art director’s drive, then on to a Retoucher... with all users able to open and make changes along the way...
Further- in regards to your ChronoSync setup- I personally prefer doing ‘Mirror’ instead of of ‘Backup’; and you can also use the safer option of ‘deleting to trash’ instead of ‘deleting immediately’. Whilst this doesn’t duplicate changes like you suggested ‘archiving’ does; it does give you one more failsafe of needing to empty the trash before actually losing any files.
This way- your file data counts should also line up bit perfect.
(Sydney based 8yr Fashion-photography digi-Tech talking here.)
Regarding your problem at the end - how often do you access your several years old archives? Instead of spending scary amounts of money on giant HDDs and raid setups, you could give AWS Glacier a try. It seems to be decently affordable for crazy amounts of cloud storage, but the downside is you don’t get immediate access to the files if you need to download something.
Personally, since I’m going back to school, I’m just milking the free OneDrive storage I get from the UofC so I can have an offsite backup of my RAW files... but I don’t generate anywhere near as much as you do.
This is a FANTASTIC resource! Thanks so much. I know my current system is HORRIBLE, so this was just what I needed lol
I can understand if you travel a lot, you move towards external drives, but a NAS has always made way more sense to me.
Hi Tyler, hope you are well. I watched this Video awhile back. I wanted your opinion, as DropBox has just pushed out an update that will move your DropBox folder to another location, which will break everything for me, and it has made me look at my Backup solution again, as if I am going to go through the pain of re connecting so many things, after moving my DropBox folder, I may aswell take a look at competitors. Dropbox also now won't let you run it from an external Drive which also breaks this in a serious way for me. Can you suggest any good replacements? OneDrive for Business won't backup file types I need, iCloud Apple is useless for our type of files, and I can't find any other provider that does what I need. Anyway thought I would ask you, as if anyone knows, it will be you ! :) thanks in advance.
Top video mate. I’m currently trying to improve my photography backup too. It’s so hard to find the most effective and efficient way. This video definitely gave me some ideas.
CHEERS.
If you want a good system, don't listen to him. Look on Reddit and see a real home server or NAS solution.
This was a great video! You identified key problems that come about when performing back ups....My personal favorite fear is when a person finishes their work and then backs up onto a second drive, or better still a third drive. Now, What if they made a mistake?...they wrote that mistake to their back ups and now....it is all gone and corrupted. I have come up with a simple solution.
I'll add it to my boring video collection and upload it. I call it my Triple Drive back up. Very low cost system I should add.
This was really helpful for me, thank you so much!!!
I appreciate how serious you are about data security but if I was working with that many hard drives I would no question build a raid. Solves all the problems you are talking about + internal drives are much cheaper and often faster
You need a synology 1918+...great video BTW
Believe or not after all automated software and hardware come back to traditional backup, for photos I use photo mechanic ahead so it cuts the unwanted photos b4 importing to LR
Can you suggest what's the best external drive to buy.. I own a Samsung T5 for active projects ...but need something reliable for backups
3-2-1 Rule? Where is your offsite copy?
There was a disclaimer at the start that he isn't talking about cloud storage in this video.
Is this still your workflow for backing up?
Great Video! Would you mind to show us an example of your file structure? Like, how you arrange your folders on your drives and computer. I know - it's different from person to person and for what purpose but it might help a few people out there. I am a photographer/videographer myself and I'm lagging at this point pretty badly right now & I can't find a solution... Thanks for inspiring and sharing videos :)
Very helpful. Did you rethink your choice of deleting immediately as you mentioned or are you still sticking to that choice? Also, what does synchronize deletion mean? Feel free to do more ChronoSync videos for those of us needing a little more help.😊
I’ve been deleting all my a-roll and exporting pro res copies of the best b-roll clips
@@stalman I have no clue what you mean. I’m not a techie. 😔 You mentioned you may revisit if you were to keep checking the delete immediately block on ChronoSync. That’s what I was referring to.
A stellar video, Tyler! Thank you for sharing this.
Can you explain why it's not ok to use or edit off of your backup drive? What potential problems could arise?
So knowing that photo and video work is almost exclusively going to live on external drives, how do you decide what size drive to put into a new laptop?
Hey Tyler - I feel your pain with the travel backup dilemma. I run into the same exact problem with traveling and it seems like there ought to be a better solution. I hope someone can speak to that. I shoot 5-6tb a year, mostly stills. My set up is somewhat similar to yours. I'm curious, would you be able to read the drives from your Synology with a Dock? I'll share how I do my file management below.
I run 3 OWC Maximus' (2 bay raids) for my most recent three years of work, two Seagate HD's for travel, and a slew of External HD's in CRU drive boxes.
The OWC's currently are "2018" (6tb), "2017" (6tb), and "2016" (6tb). When 2018 rolled around, I took the drives out of 2015 and label them "2015 A" and "2015 B". I stashed the B drive off site and remember to sync it up if I do any major work with files on the A drive with the App Superduper! (an app similar to the one you use). I also use Superduper to sync a 3rd drive for each of my current OWC raid's (2018 etc) and keep that 3rd drive (ei: 2018 C) offsite with all my B drives (like the 2015 B and previous years) in their own CRU drive box.
For travel... pretty simple. I call my drives "Travel Buddy 1" and "Travel Buddy 2". I either dump to both drives using Photo Mechanic, or just use Superduper after I dump files so I can sync the travel drives.
I run into the same problem you're having where I'll want to back up all the travel files to the OWC Raid, but often keep a duplicate copy on the Travel Buddys of the most interesting or urgent shoots so I can still export full size jpgs. This is often the case when I have back to back jobs mixed with personal travel and want to be able to finish delivering images to a client (or have that option while traveling). After all that, sometimes it's a nightmare syncing up LR catalogues to folder locations and moving files around that have been partially updated, or you're not sure what state they're in, or which drive has the files were the most recently updated. I've been trying hard to be diligent about keeping files on the OWC Raid, clearing off the Travel Buddys (just like you would an SD Card), and working off of smart previous when I'm away, but that doesn't always gitcha where you need to go.
I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one! There are a lot of great resources on data management, but travel is an edge case that I haven’t seen anyone solve.
If I were you I would buy a server that you could configure as a NAS, much cheaper than a synology. I personally use a Dell R710 which has enough bays for me, but you could add on a DAS enclosure if you run out, for again relatively cheap (think 20-40 bays for sub $500).
I’ve got a 10 tb server that is constantly backing up to a NAS. Everything is also synced to dropbox. When I’m done with the project i back it up to two disks and keep it on dropbox
Thanks for the backup tips. When you have finished using the 2020 drive for example, do you carefully store both the original drive and the backup drive somewhere for future access and where do you recommend keeping your Lightroom catalogue backups? Also I’m glad I’m not the only one who gets confused over storage solutions. I’m a relatively new photographer and I find I stress over file storage so much, it makes my brain hurt and takes the fun out of editing my photos.
I do also own a NAS drive but unfortunately don’t trust it enough to use it for storage at the moment, on account of one of the drives failing after only 6 months in. Haven’t got around to sorting it out, but I did think I could use it as additional backup for finished edits which would then also be easier to access than my portable HDs.
I’m new to photography and and Lightroom. What do you mean when you refer to keeping your catalog on your system drive and backups to an external?
what a great video, backups are so important and so underrated!
thanks for sharing this great content with us!
loved watching this!
Can you leave the links of the chromosync, and the other apps that you used
the catalog doesnt seem important if you lose it. I was waiting for you to going to mention NAS. That should be your main storage you can setup cloud on there so you can save there from the road. The only thing you have to worry about it having an offsite backup. I think at this point though maybe you might even just want to buy a data server with a ton of bays for hard drives. It seems like you are spending a lot of money on portable drives that can either go to a server or a NAS upgrade or an additional one with more drives. if you can then replicate it offsite you are gold. I think I am going to go with a data server next time
I see this video is 5 years old. Have you done a more recent video on this topic?
I talk about it on the podcast occasionally but not a dedicated video in a while. I should though!
The only thing I do that drastically speeds up my workflow was infest in Photomachanic. It processes the RAW files light years faster than Lightroom. I cull through all the photos then I import only the keepers into Lightroom. So much faster than downloading with Lightroom. Cheers
i came to the same conclusion: Lots of external 2,5" HDDs. They are quite cheap (NAS HDDs are often more expensive) actually and ideal for backups. If you are travelling a lot, a NAS doesn't help much. I liked playing around with it and had a nice QNAP one, but it didn't work for me.
Thank you for the informative video - you answered all my questions and funnily enough I have the same storage system as you. I was contemplating a RAID or NAS system - questions answered - thanks again
love how this videos is shot, what are you using? Also super helpful information, thank you!
Great vid. Again, you highlight the importance of back-ups and give options and insight into your workflow. Gets people thinking, even if there are varying opinions about the ‘best’ way to create an optimal back-up process. Next Vid Request: Colour Calibration! How do you do it, why is it important, what tech do you use! Please and thx. Cheers
Which USB hub are you using??
I just purchased my MacBook Pro-2018 and cant figure out which to buy...
He's using the Satechi Aluminum Multi-Port Adapter (amzn.to/2PCv8Ei). Having gone through a few "cheap" chinese ones (which all seem to have different brand names, but the same junk inside, including the "Lenovo" one I had prior to the Satechi), I think this is finally one that is worth the $80.
I use this when I'm mobile, and the CalDigit TS3 at my desk (I used to have the Plugable Thunderbolt 3 dock, but it only passes 60W of charging, and I wanted the full 80 for my MBP 15"). At first I grumbled about the "forced" USB-C life, but now that I've bought all the cables/adapters, it's honestly pretty great. I use ONE cable to "dock" my computer at my desk, which connects to a 16tb Promise RAID (TB2) daisy chained to an apple cinema display, and then my BenQ SW2700PT, other external drives (time machine, mobile disks), and a big USB-A hub for all the other things. I basically have a full desktop workstation with one cable and my laptop in clamshell mode with my wireless keyboard/mouse, or a mobile editing solution.
Now if only I could afford a few more Samsung T5 SSDs! Then I could have my entire library with me on the go. As it is now, I keep my 1TB with the current year of photos, which usually runs out around October 🙄
Where can I get one of those Macintosh shirts?
It’s from the podcast Welcome to Macintosh
Add more Synology DS's. Hand off from the portable drives and wipe them or leave the DS as an archive and just stick to you external drive solution which is quite solid 👌
Maybe just invest in a fire proof safe that's attached to a wall to be safe.
Or ignore everything I said and just keep doing what you're doing, I don't thing you'll ever lose any data.
This turned from a video on backup strategy for professional photographers to one of Help Me, Obi Wan. So, maybe not great video for those looking for the perfect backup strategy, more one of how even professional photographers who are on the road a lot struggle with this stuff. There's a few good videos on UA-cam about backup solutions for photographers, for instance one of the first I watched was "My Complete Photography Data Workflow" by Travis Harris -> ua-cam.com/video/xEGpZ-omUCM/v-deo.html there are others.
I'm not a travelling photographers, I always come home and download to my desktop computer; I have a series of RAID 1 boxes with 2Tb drives, I keep it small because too many eggs in one basket, etc. Also drives become less reliable the more data you cram in (more platters, more potential fail points, all you need is one drive head to fail, and the entire drive is at risk) A drive head is a fraction of a millimetre, hovering on a cushion of air a few nanometers above the surface of the platter with the aid of a slider acting as a wing as the platter spins at 7,200rpm. Bump the drive while on (i.e. a standing drive falls over or knocked off a desk), and it may impact the surface and scratch it, and from there may rip off the slider, resulting in a head crash and the entire surface getting scratched and that platter becoming unrecoverable. With conventional spinning platter drives, I try not to move them around more than necessary, and especially not if on, just in case. That includes any laptop with a spinning drive. In the case of my RAID boxes, they stay fixed.
I use Capture One, which can use Sessions for on-the-road catalogs and imported into the main catalog once back in the studio, but I would think you could use a travelling Lightroom catalog and import it into the main catalog when back home, and once integrated, the travelling catalog can be disposed of, and a new one created for the next trip. That way there is only one master, along with temporary travelling catalogs.
Certainly my current setup is anywhere from ideal, it is matter of cost. Before anything else, my computer and drives are connected to a UPS with surge protection to protect against power surges and brief outages, it has come in good use a few times. If you have a power outage while using a drive, firstly the data being driven would be corrupted, secondly, the drive head won't be able to park before it spins down,possibly resulting in stuck heads. Obviously not a concern for a laptop with a connected USB-powered SSD drive. I use RAID 1 as it is easier for me to maintain individual drives rather than large RAID sets, and I don't do video, so don't need extra speed. I have gone over to using SoftRaid Lite so I can use cheaper 4-bay drive boxes (Sainsonic) without Raid controllers, so far works perfectly. SoftRaid is owned by OWC now, so naturally they offer some nice drive enclosures that rely on the included SoftRaid. I have a bunch of drive drawers from OWC (NewerTech StoraDrive) for old drives, backups and clones, but where my setup is not complete is that beyond RAID 1, a disaster contingency, I don't have a 3rd unconnected drive backup of most of the photo drives in a 2nd location, nor do I have cloud backup. So if there was a Ransomware attack which encrypted everything connected, I'd be screwed. Similar if there was a fire.
Where did you get your Mac skin from?
What program is similar to chronosync for Windows?
I do a lot of editing in sketchy situations, in the car, on the couch, moving from one place to another, etc. - is it better to get an SSD to minimize risk and being able to move my computer around willy nilly while editing or doing anything else? I hate being tied down to one place when my HD is plugged in - then if I have to move quickly in a situation I have to eject it, wait for it to stop spinning, etc. whereas an SSD I could just pick everything up and move while it's still plugged in. Thoughts anyone? Thanks in advance.
Unraid is what you want. I have it set up on my old PC - it is working great!
Still useful today. Thanks.
Or am I missing all the good technology that came out since?
at first i'm worrying about my files n data. now money also joined the group
Great stuff! A few questions: Do you keep the old video files after you've finished the job and have the final cut saved? (I keep hanging on to old files that have been edited and completed). What is your advice on setting this up when the system has been up and running but with no real planning. i.e. copies and drives all over the place/different computers/versions of Lr? Does Chronosync help that? Does it freak Lr out when you move media to different locations (as I've found) it can. I didn't see the shirt because I was hanging on every word, Obi-Wan.
Looking Sharp with that Welcome to Macintosh shirt! Also, how’s the MacBook Pro working now that you’ve had it for a while?
Mostly great although I still hate dongles and the keyboard causes more typos than ever before.
@@stalman Plan on doing a video on it? Would love to see that.
Super duper is actually a pretty nice app. I use it to manually sync files between computers in the network.
Stalman I would like to know how do you manage the photos you take with your phone, do you use google photos or apple photos or you just pass them to a hard drive?
I use the free version of Google Photos and pay for iCloud. Then about once a year I bring all the photos into Lightroom for local backup.
Tyler Stalman so you lose all the albums you have when you pass the photos to the backup? And why using both google photos and apple photos at the same time?
I did watch this specifically for a Chronosync tutorial. That clearly wasn't in this video. Lots of good general info for sure wrt backing up images. But I was hoping to get a better handle on Chronosync. Anyway, I'll watch this a second time later on for other information.
Chronosync is great. Used now over a year and flawless
It’s pretty awesome, I think I’ve probably had it for about 7 years now
Unlimited G Suite Storage! QNAP NAS’s? Cold Storage? LTO Tape Library?
Is there a good windows equivalent to Chronosync?
You should recommend Amazon prime storage as a cloud solution. Its free with amazon prime and it uploads photos pretty fast too.
The limitation isn't the service. Amazon, Backblaze, there are lots of good ones. The bottleneck will always be my internet connection
I leave my computer on and schedule my Backblaze to do backups during the night while I'm sleeping. I'm sure if you can upload these 4k videos, you can upload your library over time.
What about cloud storage? That way you put the burden of backup backup on them. I use Backblaze and one working harddrive on my end. Backblaze is super cheap but a good backup, because then you dont have to worry about manually backing up. You only have one copy, and Backblaze has the other. Way more affordable and way less headache.
I just can’t keep up with the raw photos or videos, which are the main things I have to back up
@@stalman I use Backblaze and it auto backs up so you just have to have the hard drive plugged in and it runs behind the scenes. i think its a good option
Premium, important information. Superb presentation. Many thanks.
Hey Tyler, looking good. Who did your hair? lol jk. Wow you're a mess on this backup thing. Haha You have a WAY better handle on this than most of this and this is one of the greatest vids on I have seen on the subject. Love the channel, Keep it up.
Invest in NAS, instead of buying the portable HDD. I have had a similar setup and lost one HDD as i was not using it much. External HDD are prone to fault if not used frequently.
After migrating to Synology all issues are resolved. With 4 Bay, you can setup RAID 5 & 6 instead of RAID 1 which allows more Hard drives for backup with one Hard drive as tolerance.
Your primary NAS should also be back up offsite via portable HDD or on a cheaper NAS unit.
In short you should have 3 copies of your data on 3 physical devices/media at 3 different places.
Whoa, that's a lot of hard-drives.I generally backup using a USB-C OTG adapter and a SSD, which is while traveling. At home its still on the PC and backed up to the cloud as i purchased online space for it. Please do check out my photo backup video for solutions while traveling at ua-cam.com/video/43yqHZikAmg/v-deo.html
I use portable drives as well, and keep one in a fireproof safe. I know a few photographers that keep their backup drives in their car/garage. I also know some photographers that keep their duplicate SD card on file (as in not reformatting and working again on it) until their work is delivered, so I’m trying that one as well for next year!
Carbon Copy Cloner can create archives of deleted files, and those archives can be deleted automatically after a specific amount of time. That would help with accidental deletions. Anyway I have a system similar to you yours. Although It is nice to have the whole photo collection on a single huge drive for archive search. I think I want to cull my archive to 50% of files, at least for jobs. Also considering converting to DNG stuff I am not passionate about as that halves the file size of Sony ARW raw files.
What's your opinion on 'clouds'?
There was too much to say to fit in one video, but I use Dropbox to backup my final jpgs delivered to clients, and both iCloud & Google Photos to backup my phones
There was too much to say to fit in one video, but I use Dropbox to backup my final jpgs delivered to clients, and both iCloud & Google Photos to backup my phones
Will you ever do a “my studio setup” video?
Just curious as to what brand card reader you use to transfer files. They all seem so cheaply made these days and I've heard that people have lost data on the actual transfer due to poor design.
I back up every project online on Google Drive.
I just pay 15€/Month for unlimited storage. This is a huuge deal, since my average project have like 1,5TB
I need to say I loved your shirt.
This is my System. I have a Samsung T5 2TB SSD, a Lacie 4TB Rugged Raid I put in Raid 1(mirror), Synology 12bay drive with 1 way gdrive-sync (meaning it only retreives data but doesnt delete it) and GSuite Business with unlimited Storage. I ingest my footage to my external SSD as this is my active projects drive, I copy those projects into Gdrive & my Raid 1 like yours my Lacie Raid 1 is a mirror of my SSD. When it finishes uploading to the cloud I have a copy on my local NAS I can always reference to. Now my issue is the same as yours. How do you deal with source files and multiple copies if you’re working on a project? 🤔
I don't get why you didn't link affiliate links in description?
No, a NAS is not automatically a RAID system and NEVER USE RAID IN PLACE OF BACKUP. A NAS is Network Attached Storage, essentially a box of hard drives connected to the network. They can be set up as JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Disks or alternatively as a RAID array which can have different schemes, eg. Raid 0, 1, 5 etc.. The biggest problem with RAID is that it is meant to provide fast data access and be somewhat fault tolerant but this often means the system can tolerate a single drive failure without loss of data. Sounds good right?...but if you have a second drive failure before the first drive that failed is replaced YOU LOSE EVERYTHING.!! With JBOD you would only lose the contents of one disk, not the whole array as with RAID. JBOD is like using individual external hard drives though. You will need to write your data to more than one disk if you want redundancy. Then you have the problem of fire or theft so ideally you want your main copy of the files which is typically going to be on your computer, a backup using NAS or external hard drive such as we've just talked about and the third copy off site in the event of fire or theft, eg. cloud. I use Backblaze for my cloud storage provider....and no I dont have any affiliation, it's just who I use. Pick whoever you want.