03-28-2018, 11:27 AM
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if you mess up the desktop HDD, the other day the mess will be replicated 4 times. Else than that, I cannot imagine any serious worst case for your system.
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That's true... unless you backup with archive. I use rsync, and whenever it detects a change (a file has been updated, or deleted) the old version is moved to an archive folder. It can do that with an unlimited number of archive folders, until there is room on the disk. So if you mess up the source folder, true it got replicated, but for quite some time you still have the older versions and you can recover them.
In any case I do major backups only after computing MD5 and comparing with the original - of course, this works only for RAW. That's a big advantage of RAW: that it never changes. So, if you imported the file and verified once it is ok, you compute a MD5 baseline that is valid forever. True, you're moving the backup problem to the settings files with post-processing instructions (e.g. XMPs, or LR or C1 catalog) but they're smaller and can be managed in an easier way.
if you mess up the desktop HDD, the other day the mess will be replicated 4 times. Else than that, I cannot imagine any serious worst case for your system.
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That's true... unless you backup with archive. I use rsync, and whenever it detects a change (a file has been updated, or deleted) the old version is moved to an archive folder. It can do that with an unlimited number of archive folders, until there is room on the disk. So if you mess up the source folder, true it got replicated, but for quite some time you still have the older versions and you can recover them.
In any case I do major backups only after computing MD5 and comparing with the original - of course, this works only for RAW. That's a big advantage of RAW: that it never changes. So, if you imported the file and verified once it is ok, you compute a MD5 baseline that is valid forever. True, you're moving the backup problem to the settings files with post-processing instructions (e.g. XMPs, or LR or C1 catalog) but they're smaller and can be managed in an easier way.
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Sony a6300, Sony a6000, Sony NEX-6, Sony E 10-18mm F4 OSS, Sony Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm F4 ZA OSS, Sony FE 70-200mm F4 G OSS, Sigma 150-600mm Æ’/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary, Samyang 12mm Æ’/2, Sigma 30mm F2.8 DN | A, Meyer Gorlitz Trioplan 100mm Æ’/2.8, Samyang 8mm Æ’/3.5 fish-eye II | Zenit Helios 44-2 58mm Æ’/2
Plus some legacy Nikkor lenses.