Comments on: Incremental backup of iPhoto ‘08 library using SuperDuper! http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/08/07/incremental-backup-of-iphoto-08-library-using-superduper/ My opinion on Teaching, Programming, Technology and Web 2.0 in Mauritius Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:05:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: avinash http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/08/07/incremental-backup-of-iphoto-08-library-using-superduper/#comment-208492 avinash Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:50:57 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=875#comment-208492 Of course. Just select the correct Volume name in SuperDuper! and everything should be ok. Of course.

Just select the correct Volume name in SuperDuper! and everything should be ok.

]]> By: bishan http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/08/07/incremental-backup-of-iphoto-08-library-using-superduper/#comment-207968 bishan Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:55:40 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=875#comment-207968 hi Avinash, great instructions. However, i store videos on Iphoto, on a library called iphoto_video - it is kept on an external hard drive. Can you use super duper to back up from one ext hd to another? thanks bishan hi Avinash, great instructions. However, i store videos on Iphoto, on a library called iphoto_video – it is kept on an external hard drive. Can you use super duper to back up from one ext hd to another?

thanks
bishan

]]> By: Patrick Ng http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/08/07/incremental-backup-of-iphoto-08-library-using-superduper/#comment-157559 Patrick Ng Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:28:40 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=875#comment-157559 To Eddy: I've tested Lightroom 2.0 a little bit, and I must say I was impressed. Too bad I don't have a DSLR to shoot RAW. On the other hand, a DSLR would have taken me away from my main goal. You are the proof that photography can take up a lot of ones time ;-) UFRAW and GIMP seems to be a good (cheap) alternative to LightRoom 2.0/Photoshop. To Eddy:
I’ve tested Lightroom 2.0 a little bit, and I must say I was impressed. Too bad I don’t have a DSLR to shoot RAW. On the other hand, a DSLR would have taken me away from my main goal. You are the proof that photography can take up a lot of ones time ;-)

UFRAW and GIMP seems to be a good (cheap) alternative to LightRoom 2.0/Photoshop.

]]> By: Eddy Young http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/08/07/incremental-backup-of-iphoto-08-library-using-superduper/#comment-157555 Eddy Young Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:05:19 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=875#comment-157555 @Avinash - Yeah, I could have written a blog post, but that would only scatter the information in multiple places. It is easier for a search-er to pick up the info from one place. Eddy. @Avinash – Yeah, I could have written a blog post, but that would only scatter the information in multiple places. It is easier for a search-er to pick up the info from one place.

Eddy.

]]> By: avinash http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/08/07/incremental-backup-of-iphoto-08-library-using-superduper/#comment-157554 avinash Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:00:02 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=875#comment-157554 Hi Eddy, Nice to know you are having a lot of fun writing comments here :-) Hi Eddy,

Nice to know you are having a lot of fun writing comments here :-)

]]> By: Eddy Young http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/08/07/incremental-backup-of-iphoto-08-library-using-superduper/#comment-157552 Eddy Young Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:52:18 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=875#comment-157552 HAVING written ALL that, I realise that I could share my external disk through my Airport Extreme Base station and set that up as my main iPhoto Library medium. It should be comfortable to work with for casual photo browsing while maintaining a second library on the internal disk for post-processing current images. Eddy. HAVING written ALL that, I realise that I could share my external disk through my Airport Extreme Base station and set that up as my main iPhoto Library medium. It should be comfortable to work with for casual photo browsing while maintaining a second library on the internal disk for post-processing current images.

Eddy.

]]> By: Eddy Young http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/08/07/incremental-backup-of-iphoto-08-library-using-superduper/#comment-157550 Eddy Young Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:48:41 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=875#comment-157550 I HAVE managed to come up with a workflow that will allow me to a) retain my current backup strategy and b) save enough space for current RAW images being processed. Here is how it works. 1. Use iPhoto Library Manager to split current photo library into two: one for current images and another for archived images. 2. Back up both images libraries to external disk and remove archive one from internal disk. 3. As current images library grows, use iPhoto Library Manager to move them across to archive library on external HDD. 4. Back up archive image libraries to DVD in the same current staggered manner. What I like about this is, it allows me just pop archive DVDs and still use iPhoto to navigate through and view the pictures. The downside is, I have about 10 DVDs worth of images arranged by rolls (and labelled accordingly) while the current iPhoto ordering favours events. So, from ROLL 1-10, I now have to switch to EVENTS 2008-08, 2008-09, etc. Having said that, events are just rolls with a different name :-) RAW is great. I was a click away from ordering Lightroom 2.0 (at $299) when I came across UFRAW. UFRAW reads RAW/NEF files and integrate well with GIMP. Both UFRAW and GIMP have support for colour profiles, which makes them suitable for photo processing. @Avinash: I have thousands of images post-processed with iPhoto. I have also discarded other thousands because iPhoto could not recover them from bad shooting, etc. Yesterday, I was about to throw some away, then I gave GIMP a try -- it integrates well with iPhoto with the correct preferences -- and managed to recover them (they were not RAW, just simple JPG). I guess what I am trying to say is, try to use GIMP instead of iPhoto for your post-processing. You will be amazed. One of the pictures I was about to throw away: http://flickr.com/photos/jeyoung/2879809695/ Eddy. I HAVE managed to come up with a workflow that will allow me to a) retain my current backup strategy and b) save enough space for current RAW images being processed. Here is how it works.

1. Use iPhoto Library Manager to split current photo library into two: one for current images and another for archived images.

2. Back up both images libraries to external disk and remove archive one from internal disk.

3. As current images library grows, use iPhoto Library Manager to move them across to archive library on external HDD.

4. Back up archive image libraries to DVD in the same current staggered manner.

What I like about this is, it allows me just pop archive DVDs and still use iPhoto to navigate through and view the pictures. The downside is, I have about 10 DVDs worth of images arranged by rolls (and labelled accordingly) while the current iPhoto ordering favours events. So, from ROLL 1-10, I now have to switch to EVENTS 2008-08, 2008-09, etc. Having said that, events are just rolls with a different name :-)

RAW is great. I was a click away from ordering Lightroom 2.0 (at $299) when I came across UFRAW. UFRAW reads RAW/NEF files and integrate well with GIMP. Both UFRAW and GIMP have support for colour profiles, which makes them suitable for photo processing.

@Avinash: I have thousands of images post-processed with iPhoto. I have also discarded other thousands because iPhoto could not recover them from bad shooting, etc. Yesterday, I was about to throw some away, then I gave GIMP a try — it integrates well with iPhoto with the correct preferences — and managed to recover them (they were not RAW, just simple JPG). I guess what I am trying to say is, try to use GIMP instead of iPhoto for your post-processing. You will be amazed.

One of the pictures I was about to throw away:

http://flickr.com/photos/jeyoung/2879809695/

Eddy.

]]> By: Patrick Ng http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/08/07/incremental-backup-of-iphoto-08-library-using-superduper/#comment-157542 Patrick Ng Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:15:44 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=875#comment-157542 To Eddy: I think almost all serious amateur photographers, eventually start to shoot RAW, once they've move into the DSLR world. To Avinash: Doesn't SuperDuper! has an option to not delete what is already on the external drive? Personally, I just make sure I maintain my MacBook internal drive the way I want it, and let SuperDuper! clone it. The main drawback is, unlike Time Machine, I cannot restore deleted files. The ideal solution would be to have a few external HDD, and to clone to one at a time, or a least two external drive, each at least twice the capacity of the internal drive, and rotate four partitions. To Eddy:

I think almost all serious amateur photographers, eventually start to shoot RAW, once they’ve move into the DSLR world.

To Avinash:

Doesn’t SuperDuper! has an option to not delete what is already on the external drive? Personally, I just make sure I maintain my MacBook internal drive the way I want it, and let SuperDuper! clone it. The main drawback is, unlike Time Machine, I cannot restore deleted files. The ideal solution would be to have a few external HDD, and to clone to one at a time, or a least two external drive, each at least twice the capacity of the internal drive, and rotate four partitions.

]]> By: avinash http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/08/07/incremental-backup-of-iphoto-08-library-using-superduper/#comment-157486 avinash Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:01:54 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=875#comment-157486 Hi Eddy, SuperDuper! propagates changes i.e. all images removed from the source will also be removed from the destination. The reason is that SuperDuper! produces an exact clone of your iPhoto library which seamlessly can be opened by iPhoto. If you only want to copy all your RAWs or JPEGs and never ever delete something from the destination, I would advise you to use rsync without the --delete option. Mind you, this won't create an iPhoto-compliant library. Hi Eddy,

SuperDuper! propagates changes i.e. all images removed from the source will also be removed from the destination. The reason is that SuperDuper! produces an exact clone of your iPhoto library which seamlessly can be opened by iPhoto.

If you only want to copy all your RAWs or JPEGs and never ever delete something from the destination, I would advise you to use rsync without the –delete option. Mind you, this won’t create an iPhoto-compliant library.

]]> By: Eddy Young http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/08/07/incremental-backup-of-iphoto-08-library-using-superduper/#comment-157446 Eddy Young Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:00:37 +0000 http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/?p=875#comment-157446 Avinash, Great post. I just added a Nikon D200 to my collection of cameras (I hit the D40 limits pretty quickly) and have started shooting in RAW. With pictures 10MB apiece, I will need all the space I need. Will SuperDuper keep archived images on the backup medium even if I remove some from my main iPhoto Library? Or, will it forcibly sync the two so that an image removed from the main library also be removed from the backup, which would not be desirable? Eddy. Avinash,

Great post. I just added a Nikon D200 to my collection of cameras (I hit the D40 limits pretty quickly) and have started shooting in RAW. With pictures 10MB apiece, I will need all the space I need.

Will SuperDuper keep archived images on the backup medium even if I remove some from my main iPhoto Library? Or, will it forcibly sync the two so that an image removed from the main library also be removed from the backup, which would not be desirable?

Eddy.

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