External storage, backup, and organization

Over the last couple years, as my projects grew in file size, I just bought larger external drives. But now I'm filling 1tb drives (1 main, 1 redundant).
I guess I'm really just at a loss for the best ways to organize projects and clients so that when I fill these drives (mostly full now) I can retire them and start filling another drive. And also how I'm going to stay organized, knowing who's files are where, as I have to add another 2 HDD to keep redundant. Or really any suggestions on how you achive your projects so you're protected incase of the client coming back for another version of the project, and reduced file size.

Where I work, we have a networked drive where we archive old projects and a locally connected drive array where we do the same. When project gets quite old, a copy gets moved to both locations, it's checked in both spots, and then the project gets deleted off of the production machines/drives. When a drive in the locally connected array gets full, it gets pulled and moved to secure storage.

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We have Azure Tables deployed in our Azure Storage Account. Is there a Backup & Recovery strategy we can use for Production Business Continuity plan.
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Hi Subhash,
Thanks for posting here.
I suggest you to check this link for BCP on storage backup and recovery.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn621063.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/uspartner_ts2team/archive/2015/02/17/new-solution-accelerator-azure-business-continuity-and-disaster-recovery.aspx
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Use external for backup and personal storage

Hey all,
I was wondering if I could use my external for time machine backups and personal storage. I have a seagate 250 and time machine is currently working great. The only thing is that my apple hd is filling up. Even if I lose all my current backups, is there a way to set maybe 50 gigs a side for movies and use the rest for backup?

Partitioning the drive as joshz suggests is the best route at the moment. Unfortunately Apple does not provide any way to limit the overall size of the database directory. You could also create a blank disk image on the backup drive in which to store other information, but this is almost the same as creating a separate partition. Remember that the two partitions will display as two individual volumes, so it will appear like you have three disks attached (your main one, your backup one, and your storage one).

Online storage/backup and Sync to several systems - Elements 10

I have paid my money and eagerly await arrival of Elements 10 with the postman
I was enthused to buy it for some of the editing features which are better than v7 i had.
I was even more excited to know all my woes and hates of Google Picasa online storage and syncing were going away!!!!!
Or so I thought
I had not realised that as I work for an American company I was reading the American website and for some unfair reason they get options to buy more than 2gb storage and they get syncing of online to various PCs and backups and goodness knows what else; while we non-US poor souls in the wastelands get what seems like almost nothing
I know I can't use my 80gbs of Google Space. I have 50Gb on Box.Net that was free because I bought a HP Touchpad (long live WebOS as its awesome compared to the rubbish that is Android my new company phone runs).... sorry I'm digressing...... the Box.Net doesn't have any syncing and i know nothing of its security, but maybe its an option.
So, I can't be the only working father in the world who wants;
to use his company laptop as the onboarding for all the cameras
then to seemlessly have a secure backup made somewhere in the cloud and possibly to my 2TB NAS as well?
or a copy of everything uploaded to online web album but as full size photos (one good thing about Google) which would replace the Backup need maybe?
now the tricky bit, I then want my wifes PC and 2 others used by my children to be able to view (not edit or delete) all our photos, probably the online set synced to their PCs
then i want to be able to see them also from the touchpad
finally I want to be able to 'share' some albums/photos to the rellies and Facebook
As my wife would say "surely it's not to much to ask that this stuff just does what we want?"
How does everyone else cope if we are hoest that I am hopeless as manual backups etc.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
ps. i had thought to try registering my new software with a new email address and giving US address etc.......... would that get me the extras/

stevew218 a écrit:
Ah... as per my 1st post, I am a new user to Elements. Apologies, I have been approaching this from the wrong direction! I have checked back on my original XP disk and Elements catalog, and it appears that when I set up the original catalog against my existing pics it did not include any duplicate files, therefore the Backup\Restore is correct, it is the original cataloging of my pictures that did not work as expected. Do I have to do anything specific to get the catalog to include duplicate file names?
Sorry for the misdirection
Steve
Steve,
The basic rule of database management is to forbid duplicates.
In the case of the Organizer, that would mean changing one of the two above criteria (date daken or file size in kB). That would be possible outside of the Organizer by using external tools, but the problem is that you don't know which files are concerned...
Now that you have restored your catalog in your new catalog, a theoretical solution would be to get back to the old catalog, and use the organizer to delete all the files in the catalog. The remaining ones would be the duplicates. Creating a new empy catalog and importing the remaining files would recover all duplicates. You could then restore on the new PC.
There are still two problems:
- You can't delete a big number of files at the same time? You'd have to delete by small batches
- You'll have all your duplicates in your new PC, but you still won't be able to include them in the main catalog even you have now a special catalog with only the duplicates.
So, the final question may be : why do you want to keep duplicates? You can examine the duplicates catalog and see if they are really necessary. Maybe you can live with two different catalogs.

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If you disable Contacts in Settings then that data will not be backed up in iCloud.

How is the best way to backup and organize Adobe layered .PSD files on iMac OSX maverick?

How is the best way to organize and backup Adobe layered PSD files on iMac desktop OSX maverick?
I lost all my Adobe Photoshop files + everything else on my IMAC when it crashed. They reinstalled Operating System. But now i must install programs such as MS Word & Adobe indesign suite.
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Buy Apple Airport Time capsule $280. But I am not sure if it can store PSD layers. Can it or do you have to have Apple Apperture software to act be sure layers are saved
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External Drive Backup and Partition Problems

I'd like to setup Time Machine to back up a smaller external drive (250 gigs) onto a larger external drive (1 TB). This is all I want to backup, nothing on the internal drive.
However, when I go to the exclude list, my smaller 250 gig hard drive is listed by default and I cannot remove it as it is "greyed out". Could this possible be because it's FAT32 formatted?
Additionally, I'd ideally like to format the 1 TB drive into 2 partitions - 1 to backup the 250 drive (so maybe like 400 gigs) and 1 to use for other things (600 gigs). I tried to do that with Disk Utility, but it keeps giving me an error and telling me to "try reducing the amount of change in the partition size".
If not that, is there any way to cap Time Machine's backup size otherwise? Sorry for the multipart question, let me know if you have any other ideas of how to make this work. Thanks!

Could this possible be because it's FAT32 formatted?
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TS3992 Trying to commence first ever Storage & Backup but it fail and messages "The last backup could not be completed." "Last Backup-Never". Any clues?

Trying to commence first ever Storage & Backup but it fails and massages "the Last backup could not be completed" "Last Backup - Never".

Welcome to the Apple Community.
You might try a forced shutdown to begin with, hold down the top and home buttons together until the device shuts down, then restart it.
If your back up continually fails, you might try turning off back up on your mobile device (settings > iCloud > storage & backup) and then deleting the backup file from iCloud by swiping the backup file on the mobile device (settings > iCloud > storage & backup > manage…) and then turning back up on again.
If this doesn't help, try turning off some items for back up in a pattern to try to establish if your problem is being caused by specific data on your device.
Being able to back up to the cloud can be very useful, especially if you don't have access to a computer or have infrequent access to one, however unless you specifically need to use iCloud for back up, you will find backing up to iTunes significantly more convenient and possibly more reliable.
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I want to export to Flickr as backup and then delete originals

This is puzzling me.
I'm hoping to backup a bunch of my photos to Flickr, then delete them from Aperture. But after I have exported my photos to Flickr and I try to delete the originals, I get a message asking me if I'm sure I want to move the selected photos to the trash. It further warns me that the versions will be "removed from all Albums, Books... Flickr Albums..." etc.
What is the best process for doing what I am trying to do? This seems very counterintuitive. Thanks.

Hi Michael,
Imho, what you're proposing is an elegant but flawed solution. Backing up (or archiving) data must be 100% reliable, and, using the common methods, isn't expensive. Using Flickr to do two tasks (publish your work on-line, and serve as a back-up copy) is clever, but Flickr is not, in my judgement, 100% reliable. The gain simply isn't worth the cost -- especially since you already have an excellent back-up system (Time Machine + Aperture Library Vaults).
One of the truism I rely on when decided what to keep and what to toss is, "If it's good enough to show to people, it's worth keeping." Certainly one should retain much more than a _minimum_ amount. The second truism I rely on is, "If it's worth keeping, it's worth keeping the entire Image-production-module of the RAW (or camera-made) file and the instructions I labored to create that produce the picture I want from that file." So my advice is to keep, in Aperture, any Image that is worth putting on Flickr.
The Image is made from two files: the Original, and the Version. The Version is a text file that is always stored in the Aperture Library package. The Original is simply the image-format file you imported. Aperture -- brilliantly -- allows you to store you Originals on any, and as many, directly-attached storage devices as you want, and furthermore allows you to move them whenever you want.
The issue you are dealing with (afaict) is how to _archive_ Images that have been fully developed. My first question is: why archive them at all? If your Library is too large, move older Images' Originals to a dedicated external storage device. If your dedicated external storage device is not big enough, purchase another (data storage is one of the greatest bargains of our time). If you've moved almost all of your Originals to a dedicated external storage device, and your Library is still too large, move the entire Library to a dedicated, fast, external storage device (today, use USB-3 or Thunderbolt). If the problem you are trying to solve is one of organization rather than storage, then you'll have to look at your workflow and make improvements. One of the simplest things to do in your Library is to create a new Folder (call it "Archive" or whatever) and move Projects that contain Images with which you are finished into it. Use the disclosure triangle to collapse the Folder. Out of sight, out of mind -- but safely archived and doesn't require any additional effort to be backed up. If that doesn't fit your workflow, then we need to know more about your workflow in order to suggest improvements.
If you have a set of Images that make up a fully self-contained set and you really want them out of your Library (e.g.: scans for a completed project), export them into their own Library, put that Library with your general documents, and delete the Images from your main Library.
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HTH,
--Kirby.

Kernel panic when using FAT formatted external storage

I have a PowerBook G4 17" with 1GB RAM and since updating to 10.4.8 from 10.4.7 I have received on three occasions a kernel panic, i.e. a message that says "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button."
Looking at the conditions under which this event occured, on all three occasions, this looks to be disk I/O related using external drives however the cause could be something else like Spotlight indexing for example - I am hoping this is not hardware.
On the occasions where the problem has occured the attached storage devices have been:
1. A FAT formatted, bus powered Firewire attached 2.5" IDE drive
2. A FAT formatted PC Card drive
I had this happen to me last night with the PC card drive when I found I couldn’t delete any data from the drive but could write and overwrite data. My internal IDE drive seems to be fine however I decided to eject the drive and reinsert it but on reinsertion the system could not see or mount it. I then tried a FAT formatted CF card with PC Card reader/adapter – same thing, it wouldn’t mount. I then decided it was time to reboot and that is when the message popped up as the transparent grey bitmap (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227). After rebooting I got a kernel error stack trace telling me something bad happened hence the reboot. This thread seems to be very similar to my problem except with a new Intel version of the 17":
http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/312947/what-does-mean-when/
Any ideas? In all cases this has occured when using an external FAT formatted drive and actively writing data to it - it doesn't seem to matter how it is attached or specifically which drive it is. I have not had this problem previously when using external storage media and I am not using any backup software when this occurs - I am simply saving files from various applications be it PhotoShop or a Safari download. One last note, I am using Intego VirusBarrier X4.
Right now my plan will be to run the disk utility, disable anti-virus and possibly disable indexing on external drives and try to reproduce the issue - the only problem with this is with the exception of the 10.4.8 update, what changed?
PowerBook G4 17" 1.33Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1GB RAM

Funnily enough I can backup to my USB attached bus powered 2.5" drive formatted as Mac OS Extended, this is why I am wondering if there is a relationship between externally attached FAT formatted storage and kernel panics.
My system disk checks out with no errors BTW - I also rarely travel with my PowerBook so it is relatively well looked after and should have a lower exposure to issues relating to faulty hardware.

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The storage area has 5.93GB available and I am unable to update the operating system as there is not enough space available. I have emptied the Trash.
I need to look at external storage options and am wondering if purchasing 200 GB in the iCloud and move audio, movies and photos from the MacBook Air to iCloud is a practical option instead of an external hard drive or mini drive. Audio, movies and photos take up 75GB storage.
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Niel wrote:
Content can be removed from the iTunes Store at any time, which would make it unavailable to be redownloaded; the copies of it there shouldn’t be treated as a backup.
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Yeah - that was basically my point.

What would happen if I turn off my backup and delete backup data From my device? Will it delete my music and everything for ever or just stay in the cloud but not on my device?

What would happen if I turn off my backup and delete backup data From my device? Will it delete my music and everything for ever or just stay in the cloud but not on my device?

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So I recently bought a power mac g5 tower for $35 (I cant believe i got it for that cheap and It runs perfectly!) but now that i have it Im trying to find a use for it since i already have a mac pro 8 core and a new macbook pro. So im trying to find some way to put it to use, since it is a power mac im not gonna run any programs on it even though i have thought of running snow leopard on. I was talking to a friend and he said I could set it up so i can use it as external storage for my mac pro but im not sure if this is possible since it is a power mac and my mac pro is intel based. Could i set it up as a External storage unit and use it as like i would any other external hard drive you can buy? Im sorry if this doesnt make sense.
And just one little side note my friends company is selling a ton of their Xserve G5 cluster nodes and i was wondering if you could use these to create a computer cluster or use them for storage also.
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You can't run Snow Leopard on it. Snow Leopard requires an Intel processor. The newest you can run is Leopard 10.5.8
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I backed up everything to icloud, wiped my phone, synced to that backup, and only some of my photos are there. How do I get those photos back?

I backed up everything to icloud, wiped my phone, synced to that backup, and only some of my photos are there. How do I get those photos back?
I went to apple store and they walked me through this except for the syncing part. I went to sync everything at home and a lot of my photos aren't there. When I scroll all the way down, its just a loading spiral thing.
Also, now I have new stuff, that I don't want to get deleted.
Is there some way to put my icloud pictures on my computer as well?

If the restore process is done, or seems to have stalled, and it didnt' restore your camera roll photos, all you can do is try restoring the backup again. If it's still restoring, go to Settings>iCloud>Storage & Backup and tap Stop Restoring at the bottom. Then go to Settings>General>Reset, tap Erase All Content and Settings, go through the setup screens again and when given the option, choose Restore from iCloud backup and follow the prompts.
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My iCloud backups do not appear to be happening correctly. When I first started using iOS5, I had no problem. Both my iPad1 and iPhone4S were backing up nicely to iCloud, and Photo Stream was working correctly. I used my usual Apple ID with iCloud, and have never had a Mobile Me account.
I also have a MacBook Air, which was running Snow Leopard. I then upgraded to Lion. I'm not sure, but it may have been shortly after this that I began to have problems with iCloud (or maybe I am getting my dates mixed up). I enabled Photostream on iPhoto too, shortly after I upgraded.
On both my iPhone and iPad, when I go into Settings/iCloud/Storage & Backup and check my storage details, it was showing that I had not had not backed up in some time. When I click the "back up now" button (while plugged into power and wifi on), it starts to do a manual backup, and appears to start backing up. A little bit of the blue status bar shows, and it says "estimated time remaining…." but never actually shows a time remaining, and after a while just errors saying "There was a problem completing the backup. Please try again later".
The odd thing is, when I hook my devices up to my MacBook, and view them in iTunes, on the "summary" tab (I have "backup to iCloud" ticked) and it DOES give a recent last backed up time. There is a disconnect between what iTunes is saying, and what the devices show. I'm really not sure if my data is getting backed up or not to iCloud! As a precaution, every so often I am switching iTunes back to backing the devices to the MacBook, so at least I am maintaining backups there. Once done, I flick back to the "backup to iCloud" setting.
Through trial and error, I have figured out that the "last backed up to iCloud" time shown in iTunes is a time I have manually tried to do a backup on the iDevice, even though the device itself does not say a backup was completed successfully. If I try to do a "sync" manually via iTunes on the MacBook, it seems to sync and transfer music/photos etc, but the "last backed time" in iTunes does not change.
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I have searched various help forums, but I have not seen anyone else report that iTunes says iCloud backups worked, but on the iOS5 devices is says they are not updating.
Suggestions? How can I get iCloud working correctly, including Photostream?
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