2nd drive info

[JAS Photo]

I ingest to a second drive - would it be possible to have edit info (color codes, stars & crops and caption) to be put on the drive also.

[Hayo Baan]

Nope, that is not possible (with PM). I use a second ingest location as well, but treat those as an absolute original, never to be touched again. I have been thinking about synchronising the metadata though (but decided against it). The solution that I figured would work makes use of exiftool to copy the metadata of one file to the other. In the exiftool manual there are some samples that you can work with to do this.

Before you do this, of course, heavily test your solution of course 

[Luiz Muzzi]

Nope, that is not possible (with PM). I use a second ingest location as well, but treat those as an absolute original, never to be touched again. I have been thinking about synchronising the metadata though (but decided against it). The solution that I figured would work makes use of exiftool to copy the metadata of one file to the other. In the exiftool manual there are some samples that you can work with to do this.

Before you do this, of course, heavily test your solution of course 

Hi, Hayo
I myself use a secong ingest location too and I use that script you once mentioned (rsync) with Terminal. It works pretty well and it is really fast (as long as you don't change the filename afterwards).
Regards,

-Luiz Muzzi

[FVlcek]

If you adopt a XMP sidecar workflow, you could just use a simple script to copy over the XMP sidecar files to the second ingest location, or even an Automator action (if on OS X).

That would actually be preferable form backup point of view, since you are not touching the second location RAW files in any way at all.