- Joined
- Mar 25, 2014
- Messages
- 26
- Location
- Astoria, New York
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic version 9.3
- Operating System
- macOS 10.14 Mojave
My actual question is in the last paragraph. The other paragraphs set what I hope will be useful context.
The disk in our Time Capsule has died. I’m using it as only a router for now (ethernet connection to Verizon Fios), and have ordered a Synology RT2600ac router because it can 1) serve as a new router (the Time Machine is about 12 years old) and 2) it can accept an external hard drive that can be used for wireless Time Machine backups from our two MacBooks and one iMac. Therefore, the Synology+external drive should serve as a Time Capsule replacement. (We also use Carbon Copy Cloner each day, so we’re nicely redundant at home.)
I have read that while the Lightroom catalog is in use, it protects itself from being corrupted during a Time Machine backup by somehow preventing Time Machine from backing it up; the backing up happens when Time Machine next runs and Lightroom is closed.
In the early days of setting up the Time Capsule, I excluded altogether my Lightroom catalog and image files from being backed up by Time Machine (I used Carbon Copy Clone instead), but now, as an extra degree of redundancy, I’d like to set up the Synology+external drive to back up everything (I’ll be using a new 2TB SSD) with Time Machine.
Assuming that what I read about Lightroom protecting itself during Time Machine backups is correct, are my image files also safe from corruption (during a Time Machine backup) while I’m working on them? (The files in question are on the MacBooks and iMac; I’m not asking about images files that exist only on external drives, for which I use Carbon Copy Cloner).
The disk in our Time Capsule has died. I’m using it as only a router for now (ethernet connection to Verizon Fios), and have ordered a Synology RT2600ac router because it can 1) serve as a new router (the Time Machine is about 12 years old) and 2) it can accept an external hard drive that can be used for wireless Time Machine backups from our two MacBooks and one iMac. Therefore, the Synology+external drive should serve as a Time Capsule replacement. (We also use Carbon Copy Cloner each day, so we’re nicely redundant at home.)
I have read that while the Lightroom catalog is in use, it protects itself from being corrupted during a Time Machine backup by somehow preventing Time Machine from backing it up; the backing up happens when Time Machine next runs and Lightroom is closed.
In the early days of setting up the Time Capsule, I excluded altogether my Lightroom catalog and image files from being backed up by Time Machine (I used Carbon Copy Clone instead), but now, as an extra degree of redundancy, I’d like to set up the Synology+external drive to back up everything (I’ll be using a new 2TB SSD) with Time Machine.
Assuming that what I read about Lightroom protecting itself during Time Machine backups is correct, are my image files also safe from corruption (during a Time Machine backup) while I’m working on them? (The files in question are on the MacBooks and iMac; I’m not asking about images files that exist only on external drives, for which I use Carbon Copy Cloner).