Heres a question for you people.

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Heres a question for you people.

I have recently upgraded my server at home, 4000Gb worth or storage :)
So ill be using it to store my photos and films and other stuff

whats the first thing you do when you take your photos from the your camera? Is there a particular routine / workflow you do?

Back up the RAW, make TIFF / low res jpegs etc?

just curious
 
i....

1) copy RAW from the CF card on to the 1TB local disk in my editing box

2) import files in to lightroom and work on as required

3) make a carbon copy of the new files and lightroom files to my 4TB storage in another box using allway sync (allway sync runs automatically on detecting new files, which covers JPG and PSD exports/edits)

4) periodically make 2nd carbon copy to external USB drive

5) take USB drive to work and make 3rd and 4th carbon copies to external USB drives on my desk

paranoid? yes.

i am planning to set up some sort of backup via FTP at work so that would rule out any data loss due to fire/theft before i can physically take my USB drive to work.
 
1. Copy JPEG to main drive from CF card.

2. Rename folder with place and date, then get rid of all the crap shots.

3. Backup folder to both my 1TB drives and to DVD

4.Export to Lightroom (backup every week or so)

5. Take DVD downstairs and back up to two drives on my Media computer.

6. Put CF card back in camera and reformat it ready for use again.


I see Neil has infinite numbers of CF cards LOL!
 
In camera, shots are stored on 2 cards (1xCF & 1xSD)

CF card is imported to Lightroom copied rather than moved, with all shots also copied to either NAS or external HD, depending on if I'm at home or not.

Shots on laptop go through the normal backup process and external drive and NAS get synced.

Cards only get formatted just before they are needed again.

Lightroom catalog is backed up, but I don't keep processed/exported images, I just create them again from Lightroom.
 
Copy raw files to folder on pc with event/place and date

open with faststone and filter the best & copy them
into a seperate folder.

Open then in photoshop crop and save as jpeg.

Upload to flickr
 
I have lightroom is set up to watch a folder on D:\Media\For Processing\Photographs, I copy all the NEF's from the CF card to this location and LR automatically imports the files from this location when open.

I have a scheduled task to Robocopy D:\Media to \\NAS\Media using /e /z /r:5 /w:5 switches, this runs every night at 19:00 and immediately if the schedule has been missed. Nas performs scheduled robocopy backup to \\Backup\Nas.

Carbonite runs in the background backing up my images all the time the PC is on.

In LR I open the previously imported file and flag any ones I am happy with and reject any that are just plain naff, if I haven't had a chance to do this in camera.

Once the files have been imported, I tend to replace the CF card in the camera and format it, this could one day be my downfall....

I tend to only process the flagged images and after further whittling them down from the flagged selection.

The photos I really like, I rate and export to Flickr when time permits....

Working 7 days a week at present so this tends to some time later... :(

John.
 
Copy to HD

Rotate the portrait style shots as required

Delete the crap

Rename what's left to year - month - day - ###

Convert to DNG

Add GPS data if applicable.

Delete the RAWS (although I might sometimes keep them once in a while)

Organise in to applicable folders

Burn to 2 dvds (different brands)

Copy to second HD, sometimes a third, sometimes a fourth.

Carry out LR processing whenever I get time, backing up as above.
 
itsdavedotnet said:
check out www.dpbestflow.com for best practice workflow and backup techniques and setups, really great free resource.
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im not sure theyre 100% on the whole RAID thing though..

In a real-time mirror, any change made to one version of a file is immediately made to the mirrored copy. This is often accomplished with a RAID 1 setup where both disks are inside the same enclosure. It can also be accomplished with RAID 5 or a Drobo unit, which uses a modified form of mirroring called a parity file.
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mirroring on RAID 5??

they also fail to mention that RAID 1 mirroring is not invincible to hardware failure in that in some cases controller failure can destroy all attached data.

but i agree with their statement about 3-2-1 backups in which case the above point is slightly irrelevent (providing youre not counting RAID 1 as the "2" part).
 
argh and they keep refering to mirroring as:

RAID 1 backup.
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ITS NOT A BACKUP!

important quotes:

Although RAID is theoretically safer, we find too many people who have lost their entire RAID systems for us to be convinced that it is practically safer, at least with consumer-level RAID.
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Even with mirrored RAID, you still need to have a set of offline backups because mirroring does not protect against some of the most common causes of data loss (theft, virus, and power surge). It also provides no protection against human error, such as accidentally erasing or downsizing a file.
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sorry to keep banging on about this, but some people still arent listening.
 
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