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Computer question -External Harddrives?
Armando Solares, Photographer
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Englewood | FL | USA | Posted: 3:14 PM on 02.08.08 |
->> I am presently working off a laptop, I mainly use external hardrives. Is there a way so that I can mirror one drive to another?
In essence what I want to do is instead of moving the same data from one drive to another and creating a copy, can I just work off of one and have it automatically copy the changes, ingests, etc... to the other drive?
Any help or suggestions will be appreciated.
thanks,
Armando |
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Thomas Oed, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | USA | Posted: 3:26 PM on 02.08.08 |
->> Hi Armando....
I'm not sure off the top of my head, but I imagine there has to be some SW out there that would let you basically create a RAID/mirror setup using external drives.
I haven't gone with such a setup myself, because if I accidentally change/save over/delete an image, or an entire directory, I like knowing I can go to the other copy and get it back!
-Thomas- |
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Max Simbron, Photographer, Assistant
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Phoenix | AZ | USA | Posted: 5:12 PM on 02.08.08 |
->> Armando, I do exactly this with Syncback SE. Windows only, but it's very intelligent software.
Basically I set up the rule to run whenever a change is detected in the watched folder (which CAN be a drive). From there, all you need to do is work on the drive as normal, and it will mirror whatever it seems.
One caveat: it is not a TRUE mirror, so there is a slight latency to what it does. Also, if you are copying files into a watched area, thruput may slow down becuase it's copying files over as soon as it sees them.
I use this a lot when I ingest photos. I like that Photo Mechanic can download to 2 different locations, but the problem there is that once downloaded, the copies aren't linked, so altering a caption after ingest on copy A does not transfer to copy B.
With Syncback, I just edit captions as normal, and it updates it shortly after.
Oh btw, 30 bucks, there is an older less robust free edition, and it can be found at http://www.2brightsparks.com/
Hope this helps
Max |
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Dirk Dewachter, Photographer
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Playa Del Rey | CA | USA | Posted: 5:22 PM on 02.08.08 |
| ->> Not from the laptop hard drive but you can attach a hardware raided enclosure like the SilverSata II from Wiebetech.com and move your data to that drive. Set up as Raid 1 you will have two drives with the same data. There are pcmia cards for esata connected drives. |
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Jon L Hendricks, Photographer
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Merrillville | IN | USA | Posted: 5:46 PM on 02.08.08 |
| ->> For Mac I use ChronoSync.... |
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Brian Tietz, Photographer
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Fort Myers | FL | USA | Posted: 5:54 PM on 02.08.08 |
->> Armando, I use 2 Western Digital "My Book" 500gb USB 2 external drives and configured them as a RAID 1 (each drive mirrors each) other using the plain old Apple Disk Utility. I have the USB cables from each drive plugged into a Hub and when I need to back something up I plug the one USB cable from the hub into my Macbook and it mounts both drives as 1 single drive. It was worked well for me as long as I remember to unmount the drives before I close down my computer. If not my computer will crash.
I know there are better backup solutions out there, (the Drobo looks sweet) but it works for me. My drives were on sale for $100 each last year.
-tietz |
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