I want to split up the article into 2 parts, the first part about backup, which can be done with Lightroom itsself without any further tool, and those backups we have to use an external tool, such as robocopy. The most importent backup, which can be done within Lightroom, is backing up the Lightroom cataloque. That is a bad choice just in case of a hard disk crash □ In the standrard installation, the backup is done within the local cataloque folder, e.g. We choose Edit -> Cataloque settings within the menue, and we find the following dialog for backing up the cataloque. We change the setting for the backup of the cataloque to “Every time Lightroom exists”. This settings is neccesary to change the backup volume for the cataloque in the next step. On the other this setting for sure triggers a backup every time you quit Lightroom. Every work you do, like adding a development or a keyword it is backed up. If you now quit Lightroom the following dialogue shows up, and you can define the volume, where the backup cataloque file is going to be saved. Just choose a folder on your NAS, and as i mentioned in the first part of this article series, you don’t need a mapped drive letter, Lightroom can handle UNC paths. I would prefer the UNC paths variant.Īfter choosing the appropriate folder on the NAS the most important Lightroom file is saved to the NAS every time you quit Lightroom. The backup files are deleted from time to time manually on the NAS.įor data saftey we must do another thing, backing up the photos right away within importing them into Lightroom. Within the import dialoque you can choose another folder, where copies a duplicate for the imported images (Adobe Prelude can do this for video files) at the same time. I choose the folder Import-Fotos on the NAS. This assures a second copy of all imported photos form your memory card. So just in case, i have a second copy on the NAs and a further copy on the memory card, which i delete after importing the images to Lightroom.Īs you can see here in the screenshot, you can choose UNC paths, so you don’t need a mapped drive, which is extremly usefull. Lightroom generates a folder with the date of import, so manually deleting very old files can easily be done after a while, and you decide the time to delete.īoth settings will increase your data saftey within Lightroom, backing up the cataloque nd the imported photos to a NAS or external USB drive. Robocopy is a small but yet a powerfull tool for copying/mirroring your files. I prefer the command line tool instaed of a graphical tool, also there is a gui to robocopy if you prefer this. Now we backup the Lightroom settings on the NAS, so we are able to use the same settings on a desktop PC and a notebook for example. Please write the line beginning with in one line in your editor. For editing cmd and other files, like php oder log-files i prefer a real editor □ and that is to me Notepad++. In this example you can see, that my Lightroom settings are stored on drive letter D. Before you edit your script check the location of your settings by opening Lightroom and open the Edit Menue -> Preferences. In the presets dialog go to Show Prestes folder. The second line beginnging with bmail only serves one purpose to email the logfile to a local account. If you don’t want to setup a local email notification you can skip this line, but check the log-file. The next one to care about are the photos/videos locally stored. The photos/videos are copied from the local drive h: to the NAS, there in a folder fotos (the server is named voyager and the appropriate samba share is also called fotos )Īccording to first exmaple robocopy writes a log-file, which is emailed locally.Ģnd and 3rd call of robocopy aren’t really necessary, but since i do lot of 360☁80° panoramas and video editing, these projects are backuped too. If you only want to backup your fotos only line 1 is necessary. Know you must remember to start the script once in a while □ or you start it automatically Automating backup With this little script locally stored photos and the Lightroom settings are stored on the NAS. If you have to start a backup manually it is much likely that some time you simply forget about it, so we have to automate this process. ![]() #LIGHTROOM SAVE KEY FRAME PANOLAPSE PC#.
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