Backing up all imported images?
I watched some LR tutorials at Kelby Training by Matt Kloskowsky. He suggests you go ahead and let LR create the backup of the files as you import them, then cull the bad ones and keep the good ones in the LR catalog. He mentions not worrying about deleting too many in the catalog because you still have all of them in the backup directories. I guess that seems okay if people only shoot a few images, but it seems to me the backup drive would be monsterous in size if you kept every photo you took in it and again if that drive gets backed up.
Normally, I only keep 10% to 20% of the shots I take, and keep them backed up (twice). That's bad enough!
Any thoughts on Matt's advice?
M. Jackson
it probably comes down to a workflow issue.
For example, I have a stand-alone backup device for my "complete raws", I supose you would call it. A colorspace udma. I just plug my card into it, and load them all. Then push it asside and load the photos onto my desktop, and load the images into LR normally. Then cull out and delete images that are mechanically bad. Then, backup onto my fileserver(s).
So my complete set of images is kept on one device that is strictly a raw backup device. My sorted images are kept on my desktop, and my network devices. So I'm only backing up my "keepers" (or, at least, ones that are minimally keepers). I found out that a photo I don't like today, might be what I need tomorrow, so tend not to go into massive deletions. I use filters and collections so I don't have to look at them, and have enough diskspace that I don't mind. When I run out of disk space, I'll push them off (projects I don't work on anymore) and backthem up elsewhere.
I also have a small portable USB drive that I backup my working images on for transport with my laptop.. Whicn constitutes yet another backup, I suppose.
All in all, it's just a matter of preference. How much do you _really_ want to preserve your images?
This is something that's going to absolutely destroy future historians! Film is a passive medium, easy to store and still have something useful in a hundred years. Digital is not, it's an active medium. Meaning that in 100 years, there will hardly be any photos from today still around. Only prints, and "official" photos (read: paid for) will be around. There are lots of people finding old film that can be scanned in and referenced. Last year, someone found two suitcases of glass plate negatives (from world war one, I think) in a barn! But from the digital age, only those who make the effort to keep them preserved will be avalable. And that will be quite a waste... All those family photos, gone.
Cheers!
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