Hi All,
I'm using both aperture and lightroom now on a mac G5 Quad with two highpoint RAID systems. I want to create basically redundant drives that contain my image libraries from both applications. Aperture has the vault feature and lightroom has some kind of backup but I'm not wanting to use either. Aperture's vault system is strange to me because it takes about 12 hrs to check and back up my library even if all I did was add 500 images and this is with a hardware controlled sata II RAID! Way too slow since I can't do anything in aperture while its backing up.
What I really want is a way to duplicate and sync the two RAID arrays so that I can take one to my studio and work on whatever files I need, then bring it back and sync up the data so that I can keep changes at home and vs versa all while having a duplicate copy in case something goes wrong with one of the Arrays. They are both set to RAID 5 which provides some security but I prefer to keep a backup. I'll intend to have both on a UPS as well.
So my question to OPF guru's is what software will allow me to sync the RAID's and capture the changes made to either volume, plus do this inside package files such as the aperture library?
On my list of things to check out is SuperDuper, NetVault, and rsyncbackup so any feedback on these tools would be great. I understand that superduper does backup changes to packaged files, but may not sync but do not know for sure.
Thanks in advance,
Eric
ps...if you understand what I am trying to do and have a better idea on how to accomplish this than cart the raid back and forth to the studio feel free to make a suggestion.
I'm using both aperture and lightroom now on a mac G5 Quad with two highpoint RAID systems. I want to create basically redundant drives that contain my image libraries from both applications. Aperture has the vault feature and lightroom has some kind of backup but I'm not wanting to use either. Aperture's vault system is strange to me because it takes about 12 hrs to check and back up my library even if all I did was add 500 images and this is with a hardware controlled sata II RAID! Way too slow since I can't do anything in aperture while its backing up.
What I really want is a way to duplicate and sync the two RAID arrays so that I can take one to my studio and work on whatever files I need, then bring it back and sync up the data so that I can keep changes at home and vs versa all while having a duplicate copy in case something goes wrong with one of the Arrays. They are both set to RAID 5 which provides some security but I prefer to keep a backup. I'll intend to have both on a UPS as well.
So my question to OPF guru's is what software will allow me to sync the RAID's and capture the changes made to either volume, plus do this inside package files such as the aperture library?
On my list of things to check out is SuperDuper, NetVault, and rsyncbackup so any feedback on these tools would be great. I understand that superduper does backup changes to packaged files, but may not sync but do not know for sure.
Thanks in advance,
Eric
ps...if you understand what I am trying to do and have a better idea on how to accomplish this than cart the raid back and forth to the studio feel free to make a suggestion.