From the course: Introduction to Photography: Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

How to backup images

How to backup images - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Introduction to Photography: Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop

Start my 1-month free trial

How to backup images

“

- [Voiceover] At the beginning of this course, I tried to sound really scary about the topic of backup, but I didn't do this just to sound tough and menacing. Backup really is a critical part of your photo workflow. Drives fail, files get accidentally deleted, the power going out while you're saving can leave you with an unreadable file. Backup is necessary if you want to ensure that you will always have access to your images. Lightroom's import dialog box provides the option to automatically store a second copy of every image that you import. This makes your import step take longer, but it's a way to automate the process of backing up your original files. I'm usually in a hurry to get images imported so that I can start working on them, so I don't actually use that feature. The main image drive that I work of off at home is a RAID and array of disks that have been configured so that they act as a single drive. One advantage that certain types of RAIDs have is redundancy. A RAID, by…

Contents