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Offline davidgordon

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Backup - What to copy, what to exclude?
« on: June 29, 2021, 07:07:50 AM »
I use ChronoSync https://www.econtechnologies.com/chronosync/overview.html on a Mac to backup 'everything'. Except I exclude caches and hidden files, and preview files I know apps such as Lightroom will rebuild if lost. This is to save time copying and space on the backup drives.

So for Photo Mechanic Plus I guess I need to backup all the files in each catalogue folder, catalog.pmdb etc. But proxies? I don't really need to back those up, do I? As far as I can see they're JPEG previews and if one (or all) are missing PM+ will just rebuild them?
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Re: Backup - What to copy, what to exclude?
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2021, 09:22:43 AM »
David,

Quote from: davidgordon on June 29, 2021, 07:07:50 AM
I use ChronoSync https://www.econtechnologies.com/chronosync/overview.html on a Mac to backup 'everything'. Except I exclude caches and hidden files, and preview files I know apps such as Lightroom will rebuild if lost. This is to save time copying and space on the backup drives.

So for Photo Mechanic Plus I guess I need to backup all the files in each catalogue folder, catalog.pmdb etc. But proxies? I don't really need to back those up, do I? As far as I can see they're JPEG previews and if one (or all) are missing PM+ will just rebuild them?

Yes, they can be rebuilt using Catalog Sync in 'Full' mode.

-Kirk
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