Using cron to automate rsync

Posted: February 14th, 2010 | Author: Isaac Suttell | Tags: , , , | Topic(s): Photography, Technology | Modify No Comments »

This is sort of a follow up, or part two, to my last post on how to create a script to mirror two external hard drives. So, if you haven’t read that article yet, please check it out first.
After creating a script using rsync to mirror two hard drives we can take it one step [...]

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How to mirror external hard drives on a Mac

Posted: October 16th, 2009 | Author: Isaac Suttell | Tags: , , , , , | Topic(s): Photography, Technology | Modify 1 Comment »

This backup technique is pretty simple but can be intimidating for those who are not comfortable with using the terminal. At the core of Apple’s OS is Unix and one of Unix’s utilities is a free nifty program called rsync. According to the manual page on rsync, rsync can “transfer just the differences between two sets [...]

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Corrupted Databases and Backing up

Posted: May 13th, 2009 | Author: Isaac Suttell | Tags: , | Topic(s): Musings, Technology | Modify No Comments »

Here’s an important lesson that I thought I already learned. Back up everything.
Last night I updated my blog theme to something more minimalistic and based upon the golden ratio. After several hours of tweaking I finally went to bed satisfied with my new look and functionality. However, when I awoke I found all of my [...]

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My Digital RAW Workflow

Posted: January 21st, 2008 | Author: Isaac Suttell | Tags: , , | Topic(s): Photography | Modify No Comments »

Here’s a quick guide to my digital workflow and it’s important points. First off, my workflow is based around RAW files and Lightroom. That’s how I shoot and manage my files so if you don’t use RAW or Lightroom your workflow is going to be different than mine.
Workflows in the sense here, are ways to [...]

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