Is 8x10 a good backup size?

[BillM]

No. it will backup everything on your MAC. Or you can exclude files from the backup.

 

[unpopular]

You do not need to buy a time capsule from apple. Any external or internal hard drive is compatible with Time Machine provided it is formatted properly, which Time Machine automatically will do upon setup.

I'm currently using a Western Digital 2tb external with time machine. hard drives are def not something that you need to pay an apple tax for.

 

[JustJazzie]

Thanks everyone for the advice. Were heading to costco tomorrow and I'm gonna pick up two new drives.

One it keep connected and to keep from bogging down my computer, and the second for backup that I will keep in the fire safe and update once a month. Hopefully it works!

 

[table1349]

Personally, for the price of HDD space these days (I've seen 3TB drives as low as $109), there's no way I'm throwing away RAWs for anything I have even the slightest passing interest in.

You can never go back once you process & downsize.

++1

 

[table1349]

My suggestion would be to save much larger images, like say 6 megapixel JPEG files, which have some "beef" to them... something in the 2.8 megabyte to 3.5 megabyte file storage size, as opposed to very small .75 MP shots that are under 600 kb in size. RAW files of course are nice to have, but in many ways they are not as "usable" as a finished, edited, corrected JPEG. RAW files in many applications only contain instruction sets...you really have no "finished" image for actual, immediate use. I think a "beefier" JPEG file looks better on-screen than a smaller one that has much less information.

*sigh*

My son decided to unplug the hard drive during export. So my 3 hours of sifting through raw and JPEG was lost anyways. Screw it. I'm just saving all the master files (raw) and calling it a day.
hopefully my computer finishes before the drive crashes.
I've still got 2013 to go...
I think it am gonna get 2 new hard drives, start keeping one hooked to the computer for working files (to keep my computers HD running smooth, and then backup to a second. Then when it's full I can just replace with 2 new hard drives. Would that work?? Would it work with Lightroom if I got that program instead?

And now you know why Tigers eat their young.

 

[IgsEMT]

My external hard drives are hidden in the computer desk and kids ALREADY know not to come close to computer w/o mom or dad near by.

 

[unpopular]

I love it when people brag about how well behaved their children are, it really adds a lot to the discussion.