Lightroom Backup problem

Lightroom does not backup my catalog. I think I move Backup folder to the wrong place. It does not give me the Backup dialog when I exit. This is how I set it up to Back up.
Where should the Backup file be located for Lightroom to find it and backup my catalog?

I would check the settings in Catalog Settings. If the dialog box is not showing, then it probably isn't set to make backups every time you exit Lightroom.

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I want to create a two partition disk. One partition for time machine, the other for Lightroom backup. Currently Time Machine is using the entire drive and it is doing the intial encryption and is about 29% complete after two days. I've decided that I want to turn encryption off and partition the disk. So I do I start over?

With the external drive attached, open Finder>Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility. Select the external drive from the list in the left side panel of the DU window. In the main window panel, click Partition in the buttons top center of that panel.
Select the number of partitions you want and adjust their sizes.
For the first partition, click to highlight the partition, then select the format, Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and then the partition table as GUID [both of those are the defaults]. Click Apply and it will ask to confirm and erase and format that partion...oh, give the partition a name, like Backup.
Then repeat those steps for the second partition..and remember to name it...something like Lightroom.
Close Disk Utilitty and you are ready to send TM to the one partition, and do your backup of Lightroom to the second partition.

What Gets Saved in a Lightroom BACKUP??

Win XP Pro -
Have lightroom 1.0. Its asking to backup once a week. What am I backing up???
I usually import new pictures onto my D: drive into their own folders from my camera card. At other times I import pictures on the D: drive and have lightroom import them but leave them where they are. I have 2 other drives I can use for backup if I need.
Am I just backing up the links to the pictures and the adjustments I made in Develop...OR...am I backing up the original pictures too??
Any preferred workflow on this? I know I dont want an unprotected drive failure situation with my D: drive - but what is the best thing to do?
I backup my original pictures on the D: drive onto a data DVD for archive immediately after import - so at least I have originals I can get back to. Does lightroom backup these original pictures too?
Thanks

What elements are in the library file??
Im guessing the library file has pointers to images in the grid view and their rankings?
How about any development adjustments I make to the originals? Are they saved in this library file possibly too?
So, to do a real smart backup - it seems like I have to replicate all my original images and their directories - AND this LIBRARY file. Whats its name and location?
If I back up all my folders and pictures from my D: drive onto my backup e: drive - wont the pointers now be invalid paths - and I wont be able to get to them??

Backup Problem with only Production Server

Hi all
Here i have backup problem in only production server. In my tape drive device all schedule backup of Development server and Quality Server and Production server . In this i get all backup in Development and Quality server, But in Production server backup was fail and not only one all backup is fail from last 2 days . So can u tell me what is the problem with my production server and how can i find it in production.
And any hardware issue or OS issue is responsible for this.
Please help me out.
Thanks
Keyur

Hi,
Can u pls post us the backup log? Also let us know ur product details like OS, SAP, DB version and also the backup tool(if any).
Regards,
Varadharajan M

About lightroom backups

I just found out that the weight of my lightroom backups is more than 50 GBs which is killing my computer and making LR terribly slow.
anyone knows if it is normal? how can i down size?
I'm using LR 2.5 and i have around 30,000 RAW images in the catalog.
Thanks 4 ur help
Ette

I think you are confusing backups of LR catalogs (essentially the metadata that LR uses to process an image) and back ups of the actual image files themselves. Two very different things.
You LR catalog back ups that are created according to the schedule you set in preferences are just back ups of the catalog, not the image files themselves. These will be located where ever you have directed LR to put them and would usually be on a different disk to wherever your working catalog is located. They will usually be separate folders created and named with the date they were created. You only really need to keep the last two or three of these if everything is working fine..the others can be deleted.
The LR previews data does not get backed up by LR and you don't really need to back this up as LR can regenerate previews whenever you require them.
Image files themselves can be backed up on import otherwise LR itself does not perform back ups of files. Always ensuring you have at least two copies of every file, in separate locations is basic to any work flow. I have three. The one in my catalog, the files located on an external disk for use with my laptop as well as my desktop. A copy of all the files made at time of import to an internal hard disk kept for that purpose and a further copy of all the files on a web server.
As far as converting to DNG goes this can be done on import or at any time within LR. With files not in a LR catalog this can be done using the free DNG converter software.
You will find some useful stuff by clicking on help in LR itself, this is the page that deals with backups.

Lightroom/Backups Files

I removed all but the latest files in Lightroom/Backups. The earliest file was named 2006-09-25-1503. 09/26/05 is a date prior to my downloading and installing Lightroom. After removing the files I was unable to start Lightroom - it was apparently looking for the 09/25/2006 file that had been removed.
Can any of the files that I removed be safely removed?
I got LR going again by restoring my computer to a time just before I removed the files so my question is so I know what to do in the future.
Thanks - Bob S

You can delete the LR backups without any effect on LR (I do it all the time). You must have done something else.

Fehlermeldung "Beim Lesen dieses Fotos ist in Lightroom ein Problem aufgetreten".

Nach dem Löschen meines Kataloges erhalte ich beim Neuaufbau bei einigen Bilderordnern die Fehlermeldung "Beim Lesen dieses Fotos ist in Lightroom ein Problem aufgetreten - Sie können keine Änderungen am Foto vornehmen". In der Rasteransicht haben die Bilder rechts oben ein Ausrufezeichen. Ich habe nirgendwo eine Erklärung für diese Fehlermeldung gefunden. Der Katalog und die Bilder befinden sich auf der lokalen Festplatte D:, die verwendeten Kameras sind beide unterstützt, Ich verwende Windows 8.1 und LR 5.7. Das einzige Plug-In (DxO optics wurde deinstalliert. Deinstallation und Neuinstallation von LR über die Windows Systemsteuerung bringt keine Verbesserung. Der Versuch, die Bilder mit Fehlermeldung in PSE13 zu öffnen bringt die gleiche Fehlermeldung. In DxO lassen sich die NEFs einwandfrei öffnen. Was will mir diese Fehlermeldung sagen?

Hallo Matthias,
würde mich natürlich freuen, wenn - Deine Kernfrage war ja die Sache mit dem AAM - endlich wieder alles gut läuft. Also, hast Du das getestet?
Was "... weit jenseits meiner Kompetenz ..." betrifft kannst Du Dich ruhig noch 'mal melden. Hier gibt's genügend cracks, die Dir weiterhelfen werden.
Hans-Günter

Ideapad S400 Battery backup Problem

Hi,
I'm using S400 notebok,i'm having battery backup problem,I'm getting 2 hrs backup only,Shall i do battery gauge reset to improve backup hrs,If ok,Then how should i do it?
plz g've reply..
Sridhar Gundu

Hi Sridhar,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
I’m sorry to hear that there is battery backup issue in your S400 Laptop, I suggest you to change the power plan, reduce the brightness and then check if the issue persists also please let me know the OS (Operating System) installed in the computer.
Hope to hear back soon
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MaxDB backup problem through Data protector

When I start the Online MaxDB database backup through Data Protector GUI the backup fails with error as below,
Normal] From: BSM@ttcsap10 "MAXDB_Online" Time: 6/17/10 4:30:49 AM
OB2BAR application on "ttcmaxdr" successfully started.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@ttcmaxdr "MAX" Time: 06/17/10 04:30:50
Executing the dbmcli command: `user_logon'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@ttcmaxdr "MAX" Time: 06/17/10 04:30:50
Executing the dbmcli command: `dbm_configset -raw set_variable_1 OB2OPTS=""'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@ttcmaxdr "MAX" Time: 06/17/10 04:30:50
Executing the dbmcli command: `dbm_configset -raw set_variable_2 OB2APPNAME=MAX'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@ttcmaxdr "MAX" Time: 06/17/10 04:30:50
Executing the dbmcli command: `dbm_configset -raw set_variable_3 OB2BARHOSTNAME=ttcmaxdr'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@ttcmaxdr "MAX" Time: 06/17/10 04:30:50
Executing the dbmcli command: `dbm_configset -raw set_variable_4 TimeoutWaitFiles=30'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@ttcmaxdr "MAX" Time: 06/17/10 04:30:51
Executing the dbmcli command: `dbm_configset -raw BSI_ENV /var/opt/omni/tmp/MAX.bsi_env'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@ttcmaxdr "MAX" Time: 06/17/10 04:30:51
Executing the dbmcli command: `medium_put BACKDP-Data[2]/1 /var/opt/omni/tmp/MAX.BACKDP-Data[2].1 PIPE DATA 0 8'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@ttcmaxdr "MAX" Time: 06/17/10 04:30:51
Executing the dbmcli command: `medium_put BACKDP-Data[2]/2 /var/opt/omni/tmp/MAX.BACKDP-Data[2].2 PIPE DATA 0 8'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@ttcmaxdr "MAX" Time: 06/17/10 04:30:51
Executing the dbmcli command: `util_connect'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@ttcmaxdr "MAX" Time: 06/17/10 04:30:51
Executing the dbmcli command: `backup_start BACKDP-Data[2] DATA'.
[Critical] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@ttcmaxdr "MAX" Time: 06/17/10 04:31:45
Error: SAPDB responded with:
-24988,ERR_SQL: SQL error
-903,Host file I/O error
3,Data backup failed
17,Servertask Info: because Error in backup task occured
10,Job 2 (Backup / Restore Medium Task) [executing] WaitingT170 Result=3700
6,Error in backup task occured, Error code 3700 "hostfile_error"
1,Backupmedium #1 (/var/opt/omni/tmp/MAX.BACKDP-Data[2].1) Wrong file type
6,Backup error occured, Error code 3700 "hostfile_error"
17,Servertask Info: because Error in backup task occured
10,Job 1 (Backup / Restore Medium Task) [executing] WaitingT170 Result=3700
6,Error in backup task occured, Error code 3700 "hostfile_error"
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@ttcmaxdr "MAX" Time: 06/17/10 04:31:45
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None of the Disk Agents completed successfully.
Session has failed.
[Normal] From: BSM@ttcsap10 "MAXDB_Online" Time: 6/17/10 4:31:46 AM
Backup Statistics:
Session Queuing Time (hours) 0.00
Completed Disk Agents ........ 0
Failed Disk Agents ........... 0
Aborted Disk Agents .......... 0
Disk Agents Total ........... 0
========================================
Completed Media Agents ....... 0
Failed Media Agents .......... 0
Aborted Media Agents ......... 0
Media Agents Total .......... 0
========================================
Mbytes Total ................. 0 MB
Used Media Total ............. 0
Disk Agent Errors Total ...... 0
But I have noticed the error is because of this line as below,
Executing the dbmcli command: `medium_put BACKDP-Data[2]/1 /var/opt/omni/tmp/MAX.BACKDP-Data[2].1 PIPE DATA 0 8'.
Actually it should execute the dbmcli command as
medium_put BACKDP-Data[2]/1 /var/opt/omni/tmp/MAX.BACKDP-Data[2].1 PIPE DATA 0 8 NO NO \" \" "BACK"
But I donu2019t know where to make changes so that when I start the backup through DP GUI it should use backup tool as u201CBACKu201D
But same DP backup specification is working through MaxDB Database Manager GUI.
Any solution appreciatedu2026
Thanks,
Subba

Hi Natalia,
Thanks for the reply...Please find the answer as below,
-> What is the version of Data Protector?
Data Protector 5.5
-> What is the version of the database?
SAP MaxDB 7.6
-> According your information you could use the DBMGUI to create the medium of u201CBACKu201D type and create the databackup using this medium. Correct?
Yes
The problems are with Data Protector GUI, not with MAXDB or DBMGUI. Correct?
Yes
Please let me know where to make any changes or any enviornment settings to be done in Data Protector GUI so that it will use the medium "BACK" as backup tool while i start the backup through Data Protector GUI.
Thanks,
Subba

Backup problem with LMS 3.0 on Solaris

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Hi Joe,
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Encrypted backups problem

I have a problem that I can't make any sense of...
Reproduced on 2 PC's and 2 different iPhones. PC's are windows 7 and have never had itunes installed. Phones (3GS) have never been sync'd with itunes anywhere. Setting that up now so that I can take a backup to migrate to new 4S phones. I install itunes and authorize the PC for my apple store account (AppleID), then connect the phone. The "encrypt backups" option is checked by default. If I try to uncheck it it asks for a password - I have never set one, this is a fresh install. No backups have ever been done. I can right click the device and choose "backup", and it does take a backup. When I try to restore it to the 4S it asks for the password. I have never set one. I uninstalled and reinstalled itunes, and repeated the exercise on another PC. Same deal. "encrypt" is checked by default and needs a password to turn it off, but I have never set one.
I have tried the lock code for the phone, the apple id password, the passwords of every email service on the phone, and the windows password. None work. I have tried about 500 other random words but nothing works. If I go into iTunes preferences/devices it does not show any existing backups as being present.
So, I cant turn off encryption, and I cant restore any backups that I take.
Anyone got any suggestions? It makes no sense to me at all.
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From this support document http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4946
iTunes and encrypted backups
In the iTunes Summary screen, select "Encrypt iPhone backup" if you want to encrypt the information stored on your computer when iTunes makes a backup. Encrypted backups are indicated by a padlock icon, and a password is required to restore the information to iPhone. You may want to write down the password for your backup and store it in a safe place. If you use a Mac, when you set a password you can select to store the password in the keychain. With iOS 4 and later, you can transfer the iOS keychain backup to a new device if you encrypt the backup.
Warning: If you encrypt an iPhone backup in iTunes and then forget your password, you will not be able to restore from backup and your data will be unrecoverable. If you forget the password, you can continue to back up and use the device, however you will not be able to restore the encrypted backup to any device without the password. You do not need to enter the password for your backup each time you back up or sync.
If you cannot remember the password and want to start again, you must perform a full software restore and when iTunes prompts you to select the backup from which to restore, choose set up as a new device.

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I bought a WD passport external hard drive and copied my itunes library onto a file there. I re-set the location of the library on itunes to the drive on the external hard drive. So far I have not deleted anything from my computer hard drive. However, when I am in itunes and click onto a song, nothing comes out of my speakers. Everything looks normal, as if the track is playing, but nothing is happening. I tried buying a new track off of itunes online, downloaded it, and installed it on my ipod; it plays fine, on my ipod, but will not play on the computer. Something is obviously wrong, but I can't figure out what has happened. Any help out there?
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It sounds to me like your iMac is on it's last legs....at least the internal hard drive. If you can't make a new Time Machine backup I would advise you replace your iMac as soon as possible.
Assuming your three-week old backup is sound you should have no problems moving everything over to a new Mac. I would recommend you use the Setup Assistant that appears when you start up the new Mac (and note: It only appears the first time you start the new Mac; you can move everything over later on via Migration Assistant, but you may see issues with accounts if you opt for that route).
I don't think you need the Genius Desk for Setup Assistant. You only have to power up the new iMac, answer a few questions....select "....From Another Disk..." When it asks how you want to move everything over....connect up your Iomega external drive...and wait for it to finish. (Could take several hours depending on the amount of data you're moving).
A couple of notes:
1. If your Iomega is a Firewire drive you'll need a Firewire to Thunderbolt adapter to connect it to your new iMac.
2. If you need to load CDs or DVDs remember the new iMacs don't contain an optical drive. You would need to get an Apple SuperDrive or third part external burner if you need that functionality.
I'm puzzled by the comment made in Seventy One's post questioning the reliability of the new iMacs. I upgraded from a 24" early 2008 model to a 27" model and everything works flawlessly. I hardly ever see the beachball anymore.

HT201210 update Ipad 2 to IOS 5.1.1 backup problems

When I try to update my Ipad 2 to IOS 5.1.1 a message says the backup could not be saved. Try again. How can I solve this problem? Thank you....I work with MAC and Windows 7...

There is no problem. That is how this process works. You should backup the iPad, and transfer purchases before you update the iOS.
Read this before updating your iPad.
How to update your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch
And - If she bought the music with her Apple ID - the music does not belong to you. She may have bought the songs for you, but that is not how iTunes "sees" it. The purchases are tied to her ID - not to yours.

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I have a 4th gen ipod touch and i've been having this problem for a while. I'm on 4.3.3 and I don't jailbreak, I buy all my apps etc, but whenever I sync, it won't properly do it. It will start the sync by backing up. Now, I don't actually have a single back up meaning this is technically my 'first' backup. I know that 'first' backups are supposed to take longer, but it either a) takes over 3 hours (i've left it on for this long then gave up) or b) will go through and just before completing, say that the ipod was disconnected and thus was unable to backup. Occasionally, it will go through with the backup when i right click on my iPod in iTunes and select 'back up' but when I go to check everything, including my preferences > devices > backups, nothing has changed. I don't have a single backup on that list, its white and bare.
I don't have a single backup because although I managed to get this iPod fine, new from the apple store and backup for the first time then, after a while it stopped properly syncing, aka this problem. I was then recommended by some random site that I can't recall to delete backups and backup for the 'first' time again. I've also tried clearing some apps to see if that was the problem, as well as emptying some of my photos, but although i've not cleared all the apps nor all the photos, it doesn't seem to make a difference.
When I try to update to 4.3.5, it will extract information, proceed to Back up (step 1 of 5) and somewhere in the backing up process my iPod Touch will reboot and the apple logo plus a loading logo (the white lines arranged in a circular motion, when things are 'loading') ontop will appear. From then on, regularily will my iPod Touch beep with a high pitched noise that I can't put my finger on, but is familiar, until the backup ultimately fails with the message "iTunes could not back up the iPod because it was disconnected."
I've tried different USB ports, I do NOT use a hub. It also does not sync songs as when I try to put more songs on my iPod, it requires to back up. I've also tried clicking the (x) to stop the backup but clicking it doesn't even do anything.
I've wanted to try to restore, but apparently I can't even do that because it TOO requires to back up right after restoration, it will fail the backup and revert my iPod to what it was before.
Please tell me that this is a problem I can fix easily, it's a fairly new iPod Touch.

See here for
DFU Mode / Unable to Update or Restore
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808

Backup Problem with Firmware Change

*I'm running Windows Vista with my iPod Touch 2G.
I just downgraded my firmware from 3.1.1 to 3.0 but now when I try to backup my old iPod backup it tells me it cannot backup the data because the (recently downgraded firmware) software is too old.
Is there a way to backup my old applications and music without sticking with 3.1.1 firmware?
Or is the only option putting my apps back manually onto my iPod? I had both my apps and my music backed up before I reverted to 3.0 firmware.
Thanks for your time in advance!

Just cancel it. its just downloading and not installing to phone yet so no harm will happen. Something on your computer is creating problems for your download. Most likely the AV and firewall software of the LAN settings.
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