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Retoucher

deeking

Posts: 34

Gliwice, Śląskie, Poland

Hi please help me.

I have question about backup yours retouch in progress files. What is your sollution  and what are you doing it ? When something goes wrong and the files are gone. For example, my last time - I spend, couple of hours about retouch and something went wrong, my files was broke down sad.  How can I help to myself with it for the future. I don't want thise situation .

David

Oct 10 17 01:54 am Link

Retoucher

3869283

Posts: 1464

Sofia, Sofija grad, Bulgaria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open

and for backup while you work - you can periodically save a spare copy of your working file to a different drive.

Oct 10 17 02:41 am Link

Retoucher

deeking

Posts: 34

Gliwice, Śląskie, Poland

anchev wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open

and for backup while you work - you can periodically save a spare copy of your working file to a different drive.

Thank you for help .

I found the sollution smile
The Windows has a simple backup engine smile. I just need to get an empty pendrive and the folder that I show will be copied as a backup smile Simple. Where I have been...?  grrr ...)

Greets

David

Oct 13 17 02:56 am Link

Photographer

TMA Photo and Training

Posts: 1009

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US

Many Programs have an internal  "Save and Backup every 10 minutes"  kind of functionality within the program.
(Like Photoshop for example.)

With that set in preferences usually...you always have a  recent  copy of your file available...and its never more than 10 minutes old.  I hate loosing a retouch that takes several hours to re-construct... Id rather spend 10 minutes!  LOL.

Sometimes you have to make a note of where on your hard drive the program puts your backup file...so you can get to it when you need it.

Cheers

Oct 13 17 06:15 pm Link