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- Dec 27, 2020
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Good afternoon and a happy Christmas to you all.
About me:
My name's Paul, I'm 34 years old living in tier 4 London, UK. I picked up a Sony A6000 just over 4 years ago now when I found myself wanting to shoot the surrounding landscape when I lived in North Wales. Fast forward to now and I have amassed a little less than 100gb of photos from various countries, trips, hikes, streets etc. I'm also a little lighter in the wallet with a few additional lenses in my pack as well as now (poorly) dabbling in the world of film photography! My camera has become a constant companion.
My 'workflow' from 2016 - current:
Shoot 99% .jpg and 1% .jpg+raw when I thought I'd want to play with proper editing tools. I'd upload to my phone what I wanted to share to social media (with free Lightroom mobile editing) and then I'd periodically save all to an external HDD and then doubly saved (copy+paste) to an additional external HDD.
Why I'm here:
Like a lot of people, I found myself on furlough for a lot of time this year. Summer was fine as I like to cycle but with the winter months looming, I thought it was a great time to invest in a more robust photo managing/editing workflow than just uploading to my phone and learn to finally use Lightroom.
A good friend of mine offered me his old Macbook which is now my current machine. Specs are as follows: Macbook Pro Retina 13" (Early 2015), 2.7 GHz i5, 16gb ram, 256gb SSD. I've never owned a Macbook before, let alone had a good laptop so this thing is bloody lovely to use despite its age.
Whilst trying this machine out, I setup a Lightroom (Cloud based) trial after much research on the differences between Classic and Lr. I've uploaded approx. 10gb of photos to get me going. So far I've enjoyed the layout as well the subtle hints and tips on the sliders. I've calibrated the screen within the Apple monitor settings and have since had printed a photo with (what I think) is good success. I'm following Victoria's star rating method and setting up folders/keywords. It's also extremely easy to open my phone, find my photos in the Lr app, export and upload to social media. All in all, I'm enjoying the editing process.
But now I'm finding myself diving down a rabbit hole with regard to backing up photos/data. I just don't know where to start! Which after a few hours of reading has made me question whether I want to switch to Lr Classic and utilise my SSD storage! My brain is officially scrambled.
Questions:
What best do I do with; 256gb of internal SSD storage, 1 Tb of external HDD and 2Tb of external HDD storage and then 1Tb of Adobe cloud storage?
Can I utilise Time Machine to backup one HDD to the other or am I fine to just copy and paste manually? The latter doesn't really feel like a robust method and I definitely put off doing so.
Is there any third party backup methods people would recommend instead of/along side Time Machine? I've loosely read about Carbon Copy Cloner and various others.
All of the above considered with the cloud based Lightroom, am I right in thinking I'd never have a backup of the edited images unless exported from Lightroom?
I guess I'm trying to make sure I hit the ground running before I find myself in far too deep with a very clunky method!
If anyone can offer any help or even just words of wisdom/confidence boosting then it'd be much appreciated. I'm also a first time forum user so I'm already battling my anxious thoughts to post (which may also be contributing to how scrambled I'm feeling about backups!)
Thanks so much if you've made it this far!
Paul
About me:
My name's Paul, I'm 34 years old living in tier 4 London, UK. I picked up a Sony A6000 just over 4 years ago now when I found myself wanting to shoot the surrounding landscape when I lived in North Wales. Fast forward to now and I have amassed a little less than 100gb of photos from various countries, trips, hikes, streets etc. I'm also a little lighter in the wallet with a few additional lenses in my pack as well as now (poorly) dabbling in the world of film photography! My camera has become a constant companion.
My 'workflow' from 2016 - current:
Shoot 99% .jpg and 1% .jpg+raw when I thought I'd want to play with proper editing tools. I'd upload to my phone what I wanted to share to social media (with free Lightroom mobile editing) and then I'd periodically save all to an external HDD and then doubly saved (copy+paste) to an additional external HDD.
Why I'm here:
Like a lot of people, I found myself on furlough for a lot of time this year. Summer was fine as I like to cycle but with the winter months looming, I thought it was a great time to invest in a more robust photo managing/editing workflow than just uploading to my phone and learn to finally use Lightroom.
A good friend of mine offered me his old Macbook which is now my current machine. Specs are as follows: Macbook Pro Retina 13" (Early 2015), 2.7 GHz i5, 16gb ram, 256gb SSD. I've never owned a Macbook before, let alone had a good laptop so this thing is bloody lovely to use despite its age.
Whilst trying this machine out, I setup a Lightroom (Cloud based) trial after much research on the differences between Classic and Lr. I've uploaded approx. 10gb of photos to get me going. So far I've enjoyed the layout as well the subtle hints and tips on the sliders. I've calibrated the screen within the Apple monitor settings and have since had printed a photo with (what I think) is good success. I'm following Victoria's star rating method and setting up folders/keywords. It's also extremely easy to open my phone, find my photos in the Lr app, export and upload to social media. All in all, I'm enjoying the editing process.
But now I'm finding myself diving down a rabbit hole with regard to backing up photos/data. I just don't know where to start! Which after a few hours of reading has made me question whether I want to switch to Lr Classic and utilise my SSD storage! My brain is officially scrambled.
Questions:
What best do I do with; 256gb of internal SSD storage, 1 Tb of external HDD and 2Tb of external HDD storage and then 1Tb of Adobe cloud storage?
Can I utilise Time Machine to backup one HDD to the other or am I fine to just copy and paste manually? The latter doesn't really feel like a robust method and I definitely put off doing so.
Is there any third party backup methods people would recommend instead of/along side Time Machine? I've loosely read about Carbon Copy Cloner and various others.
All of the above considered with the cloud based Lightroom, am I right in thinking I'd never have a backup of the edited images unless exported from Lightroom?
I guess I'm trying to make sure I hit the ground running before I find myself in far too deep with a very clunky method!
If anyone can offer any help or even just words of wisdom/confidence boosting then it'd be much appreciated. I'm also a first time forum user so I'm already battling my anxious thoughts to post (which may also be contributing to how scrambled I'm feeling about backups!)
Thanks so much if you've made it this far!
Paul