Comments on: Do you Backup as you shoot? http://www.diyphotobits.com/2009/11/03/do-you-backup-as-you-shoot/ A few bits and pieces about photography Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:14:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Steve http://www.diyphotobits.com/2009/11/03/do-you-backup-as-you-shoot/comment-page-1/#comment-4832 Steve Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:16:52 +0000 http://www.diyphotobits.com/?p=398#comment-4832 I always back up to 2 different hard drives after a shoot. Having a copy on both chip and hard drive at the time the pic is taken is great for peace of mind with the tabletop stuff. Now if only my camera could save to hard drive remotely.... I always back up to 2 different hard drives after a shoot. Having a copy on both chip and hard drive at the time the pic is taken is great for peace of mind with the tabletop stuff.

Now if only my camera could save to hard drive remotely….

]]> By: raymond http://www.diyphotobits.com/2009/11/03/do-you-backup-as-you-shoot/comment-page-1/#comment-4696 raymond Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:16:54 +0000 http://www.diyphotobits.com/?p=398#comment-4696 Indeed Guy you have highlighted a key problem here -- what to include and what to depend on external tools for. For my own use I'd agree with you and use robocopy or maybe rsync to manage multiple copies on the PC. However for that matter I've little interest in expanding the on-screen preview ability of CameraControl because I use Bridge to do this much better; however better on-scren preview is the top most requested enhancement! This somewhat contributes to the lack of development of the script; the things most requested are the things of least interest to me, and the things of most interest to me are apparently of little interest to others. Put like that it's a bit like my photography; the things I wish to photograph are of no interest to others (at least nobody around me) and the things they think I should photograph are of on interest to me. Doesn't encourage much progress I'm afraid. Indeed Guy you have highlighted a key problem here — what to include and what to depend on external tools for. For my own use I’d agree with you and use robocopy or maybe rsync to manage multiple copies on the PC. However for that matter I’ve little interest in expanding the on-screen preview ability of CameraControl because I use Bridge to do this much better; however better on-scren preview is the top most requested enhancement!

This somewhat contributes to the lack of development of the script; the things most requested are the things of least interest to me, and the things of most interest to me are apparently of little interest to others.

Put like that it’s a bit like my photography; the things I wish to photograph are of no interest to others (at least nobody around me) and the things they think I should photograph are of on interest to me. Doesn’t encourage much progress I’m afraid.

]]> By: Guy dV http://www.diyphotobits.com/2009/11/03/do-you-backup-as-you-shoot/comment-page-1/#comment-4691 Guy dV Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:24:20 +0000 http://www.diyphotobits.com/?p=398#comment-4691 I also think it's worth using an automatic folder replication utility like Robocopy (from Microsoft Technet, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.11.utilityspotlight.aspx or see Wikipedia entry) Or Microsoft's SyncToy, though I think they are gradually replacing it with "Windows Live Sync". Maybe suggest people use this rather than add an enhancements to Camera Control ("Backup downloaded images to second folder location") I also think it’s worth using an automatic folder replication utility like Robocopy (from Microsoft Technet, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.11.utilityspotlight.aspx or see Wikipedia entry)
Or Microsoft’s SyncToy, though I think they are gradually replacing it with “Windows Live Sync”.
Maybe suggest people use this rather than add an enhancements to Camera Control (“Backup downloaded images to second folder location”)

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