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#Chronosync could not safely replace software
Cloning is an expensive way of achieving that.īut it is the only (local) way of of providing backup software redundancy. I guess that I could have more than one TM drive and rotate them on a regularly basis to give the replicate back-ups.īackups should give you access to older versions of data as at various points in the past - protection against file corruption or inadvertent deletion. I think that I have more money invested in my back-up drives than in the active drives on my iMac system Last week, I actually had to go back into old drives (from 3 years ago) to access my copy of SoundBooth (an Adobe CS5 audio processor that creates music scores for videos).
#Chronosync could not safely replace full
I like to keep full backups for up to 6 months, each month on a separate drive so that if one back-up drive crashes, I still have other ones to use. However, it makes it hard to maintain sequential back-ups on separate drives. I find it is particularly useful for moving to a new computer or OS version. However, it would not copy the LR catalog since that is on a different drive. I was thinking of copying the highest level directories on the drive, which would copy any sidecar files, etc. It's free, you have it, and an important aspect of it is that it's easy to use to retrieve a backup image when you need it.that isn't as easy sometimes with the other applications for incremented backups. I prefer TM for this since it works in the background and just works. ChronoSync, Time Machine, Super Duper and CCC would handle that better since they could say just incrementally back up the changes. But if say you added GPS info or metadata to those image later, then the trouble starts. Some people use the second copy feature in Lr to do that. If you just copy say images from the camera to both your working drive and backup, and that's it, yeah it could work fine. Using the Finder to make backups by copying can be a labor intensive PITA. I am not talking about backing up a system drive where a 'clone' from software like this is the way to go. But, do they add anything if you are just backing-up to a newly formatted drive? If you want to do an incremental back-up, CCC etc. Is there any advantage to using software like CCC or Chronsync to make back-ups of external data drives (e.g photographs) compared to just using finder to copy the files to the new drive?