So if the laptop is lost or stolen or gets run over by a truck, I don’t have to worry about losing a thing. Any documents I need on my laptop live in the cloud and are duplicated on the laptop.
(I actually don’t purposely keep data on my laptop. I wanted to find it and file it on the appropriate archive disk. I had been accumulating media on my desktop and laptop computers’ hard drives. Like in your home when you get mail or other items that you are too busy to file or put away? You stack it up somewhere and eventually, maybe, get to it. Over the years, I had accumulated photo and video files in a variety of places.
If you’d suffered as many hard disk losses as I have, you’d be automatically backing up your disks, too. Media files simply aren’t important enough to me to warrant that treatment.Īs for my desktop computer, that’s also completely backed up automatically to a hard disk using the Mac OS Time Machine feature. My more important data - accounting records and so on - are backed up to the cloud. Losing it would be very sad but not life-altering. Instead, I only separate them when I travel I take the originals with me in case I need to access or modify them and leave the backups at home.Īfter all, this is just media, mostly video shot while flying. There is no other place to store the backups. That’s because I only have one home these days - which is certainly enough for me - and that’s also where I work. Ideally, I know I should keep those two disks - original and backup - in separate places, but I don’t. I simply plug in the backup disk and Synchronize Pro launches, compares the two disks, and makes the backup match the master. Once I’ve added or removed items on an archive disk, I automatically duplicate it - I use an app called Synchronize Pro - on a like-sized, often identical hard disk. I also have a lot more media these days, so since 2020, each year has its own 2T disk. Lately, because most of my media is recorded on GoPros or my iPhone, the most recent media is organized in folders by date and event. My archives are organized by year and then within each year by source - GoPro, drone, Nikon, iPhone, etc. Yesterday, I spent the day in front of my desktop and laptop computers, gathering together loose media - photos, videos, and sound files - and archiving them on external hard disks I have for that purpose. A chore made more difficult by a need for new software.
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