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Matt Jones
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Saving photos to multiple external drives at once?
07/02/10 at 8:09am
 
Guys,

I know that this can be done, I just can't seem to find any info on it. First, when I download photos from a card, how do I direct them to save to multiple external drives in one action? Also, I am constantly working on design projects and would like to essentially do the same thing through InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Is this possible? Am I making sense?

Thanks in advance!
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Re: Saving photos to multiple external drives at once?
Reply #1 - 07/02/10 at 9:04am
 
I've always found the best way to do that is by downloading to one, then the other.
The more softwear you add to the process, the more chance of failures IMHO.

Simple with computers is best.
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Re: Saving photos to multiple external drives at once?
Reply #2 - 07/02/10 at 9:28am
 
Matt,

The only program I know of which does this natively is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and higher.  When running an import you can specify where to save the files and can also save an alternate copy to another location.  In my case I save a copy to my local system and the alternate copy goes on my Windows Home Server for archival purposes.

The only alternative I know of would be to create a script (I'm an IT guy so I do things like this frequently) to copy files from your photos folder to an external location on a schedule.

I'm sure there must be other programs that can do this for you, but I'm just not aware of them.

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Reply #3 - 07/02/10 at 11:00am
 
I use Nikon Transfer to download images from CF cards, saving files onto my hard drive and designated backup, at the same time.
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Reply #4 - 07/02/10 at 11:36am
 
I use to do exactly what Brian does.  Now I just use this:

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I just let them worry about it.  It lets me sleep at night Wink

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Re: Saving photos to multiple external drives at once?
Reply #6 - 07/05/10 at 8:02am
 
When you Ingest (download pix from card) in the editing programme Photo Mechanic, you can specifiy a second destination for the images to be saved to............an external hard drive for example.
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Re: Saving photos to multiple external drives at once?
Reply #7 - 07/06/10 at 5:42pm
 
Depending on your operating system and hardware setup you might be able to run RAID1 (drive mirroring) or use external storage like Drobo which is running raid already. Over the years I have had too many of the "cheap" RAID solutions fail so prefer to do things manually.

I have a couple of internal hard drives which are backed up to an external hard drive using a batch file and xcopy  Smiley This is scheduled to run every night via the Windows Task Scheduler. I then have a second external hard drive which is backed up the same way but kept off site.

xcopy c:\data\*.* /s /e /v /c /d /y d:\data\

You can substitute the c:\data and d:\data with whatever drives or subdirectories you like. This command will only copy the files which have changed since the last time you copied.

If you prefer to be able to run it when you want to, just create a shortcut on the desktop to the batch file. It is simple to setup, simple to check if working and free.
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