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Tip: Photography and Aperture 2… on the Road in Bali, the setup in our Hotel room after the shoot making sure everything is save
© Gunther
Deichmann - Happy faces at the
Denpasar Market, Bali
Indonesia
I
thought I better get another Blog post out today, who
knows if I have a connection in the next few days
since we are moving Camp and to get these recent
Blogs out took some 3 hours already. For those of you
who have not seen it before I have included the image
below…
A very simple but super effective setup with two
Lacie 160 Gig Hard drives, daisy-chained, thanks to
their triple interface. (One USB, One Fire Wire
400 and one Fire Wire 800. Use only the fire wire for
this setup, Daisy-chain the 400 and use the 800 for
your Card Reader.)
A fast 800 Fire Wire San Disk Card reader and a few
blank DVD’s and CD’s just in case.
I named the Lacie Drive A and Drive B. On Drive A I store all my reference
Images and keep my MacBook Pro Drive nice and clean,
and Drive B is
purely for backing up Drive A. By the way the Room Menu
usually comes in very handy as a Mouse Pad.
The setup - Photo by
Hermes Singson
You can use a variety of
software’s for your back ups, I have been using in
the past the SilverKeeper which comes with the Lacie
Drives when you buy them, but I have switched
recently to Personal Backup X4 from Intego, a very
simple and reliable software.
Back home I transfer all my Projects to my Mac Pro
including all my adjustments and Metadata.
This set up has saved me so much time over and over
again, I can do some editing in Aperture right from
the Hotel room and once back home a lot of my work is
done already.
A word of caution the Lacie Drive uses the power from
the MacBook Pro so you better make sure your Machine
is fully charged and I advise that you carry a spare
battery.
My Battery is fairly old now and I can only keep the
charge for about one hour, previous test have shown
me that on a new fully charged Battery you can work
for about two hours plus.
GD from Bali
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/blog.html
PS. I prepare more
images from Bali on my MobileMe Web Gallery once I
am back Home where I have a faster connection.