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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Software => Software - General => Topic started by: Phadrea on May 11, 2013, 06:49
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Why does Lightroom 4 create a new file every time you want to back up? This will soon clog up my hard drive at this rate. Why doesn't it simply overwrite the previous save ?
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That's good practice - if your catalog is corrupt for some reason, you don't want to overwrite your last good backup with a duff one.
Just delete the old folders every so often. LR doesn't back up the previews, just the catalog, so the backups aren't too big anyway.
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Are you backing up your catalog to your main computer's HD, the same one that has LR? If so, I wouldn't cuz if your HD fails you've lost everything. I back up my catalog to a couple of different external hard drives and delete old backups every once in awhile. Externals are relatively cheap nowadays and if your main HD fails you have an insurance policy in your externals.
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Don't worry, I also back up to an external removable drive.
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And another thought - exclude your main LR catalog from any system backups. Just backup your backup. And your images.
The reason for this is that there are reports of incremental backups trashing the LR catalog if it is open when the backup software is running and the backup software accesses the catalog.
I've used Time Machine and SuperDuper (on a Mac) and exclusions are easy to set up.