John Francis wrote:
o Save copies of the files from the camera (PEFs, JPGs, etc.)
to backup media immediately after copying to your hard drive
(and before deleting the images from your SD cards).
I try never to have an image in only one place, except for
the unavoidable times after expusure and before downloading.
o Convert to DNG (this is a good time to systematically rename
files)
o Save another copy of everything (to a second hard drive,
and to write-once media).
Pretty close to what I do.
- transfer PEFs directly from storage card to backup drive 1
- run DNG Converter, put output onto working drive for further
processing
- update working directories to backup drive 1 every day
- update backup drive 1 to backup drive 2 every day
- replicate important data projects to DVD-R archives when appropriate
I use very useful third-party utility for Mac OS X called ChronoSync
which makes the archiving and replication to backup drives easy. It
will synchronize a source and destination, and roll files deleted
from the source into an "archived" folder on the destination. Very
useful. See
http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/ChronoSync/
chrono_overview.html
for details.
Godfrey
