Are you leaving the external running the same as your main computer? If that is the case then do not because this will lead to premature drive failure. I know many people leave it hooked up and running, that is not what they are made for, they are strictly a backup tool.Joiemagic wrote: One thing I do is store everything on external hard drives now... unfortunately, I did have one EHD that crashed on my completely... That was my original back-up drive that did back-ups automatically and when it crashed, I actually lost a few years worth of photos and videos.
I have not brought it anywhere to see if anything can be recovered... One of these days,I will try that.
Like I said, everything I download off the camera goes direct to an EHD. May start to do back-ups to the Cloud just to be safe.
The Man wrote: Are you guys making back ups on external hard drives?
That's not a backup of the files, that's a backup of the LR information only. You need an additional solution for the images proper.John37 wrote: Lightroom 3 asks me to back up the files about every week. I need to start thinking a little more seriously about backing up my images at this point.
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