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From various threads, we read that people don't do automatic backups of Lightroom every time they back up. Why is that? Sometimes it's backup time. That's fair. But consider how much time has to be spent recovering from a corrupted catalog or a drive failure, in the absence of a backup. In effect, you are spending 5-10 minutes each day (if that) to avoid days and days of crisis-recovery of unbacked up work.
Or, backups take too much disk space. In the worst case, you have to spend oh US $100 for another 2 TB HDD. But you have 50,000 images in your catalog. That works out .2 cents per image for that extra backup drive. You can do the math for your own situation.
That extra backup cost is a small fraction of what you spent to produce that image, considering the cost of camera, lenses, computer system including high quality monitor, fast CPU and Lightroom, your printer if you have one, etc.
So what is YOUR excuse for still not backing up daily?
Phil
Or, backups take too much disk space. In the worst case, you have to spend oh US $100 for another 2 TB HDD. But you have 50,000 images in your catalog. That works out .2 cents per image for that extra backup drive. You can do the math for your own situation.
That extra backup cost is a small fraction of what you spent to produce that image, considering the cost of camera, lenses, computer system including high quality monitor, fast CPU and Lightroom, your printer if you have one, etc.
So what is YOUR excuse for still not backing up daily?
Phil