Backup & Archiving for Creatives

Your RAW files and 4K footage are your livelihood. Are you protecting them like it? Stop juggling disparate drives and start building a secure, automated workflow for your photos, videos, and project files.

Tailored explicitly for photographers, videographers, and designers using Carbon Copy Cloner. Learn to protect your assets from the moment of capture to deep cold storage.

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A Complete Workflow: From Capture to Archive

We teach you how to implement a watertight data lifecycle using Carbon Copy Cloner's advanced features.

1. On-Location Backup

Automate the ingestion process. Use CCC to verify checksums immediately upon transfer, creating two verified copies of your memory cards before you even leave the shoot.

2. Working Drive Clone

Never lose a day's edit. Configure automated CCC tasks to clone your active SSD to a secondary local drive every night, including SafetyNet protection for accidental deletions.

3. Project Archival

Project delivered? Learn our specific protocols for moving massive libraries to NAS or LTO tape for cold storage, ensuring metadata links in Lightroom and Premiere remain intact.

4. Data Integrity

Prevent "bit rot" and silent corruption. We teach you how to schedule periodic "Find and Replace Corrupted Files" tasks to validate your years of archival data autonomously.

Solving the Creative's Biggest Data Problems

Creative software generates complex file structures. Standard drag-and-drop backups aren't enough.

Video editing libraries are essentially complex databases. If you clone them while they are open, or if the backup doesn't respect hard links and package contents, you risk corruption. We show you exactly how to configure CCC Advanced Settings to safely clone these complex library files without creating unbootable duplicates.

Hard drives demagnetize over time, leading to flipped bits and corrupted images that you might not discover for years. Learn to use CCC's checksum verification to scan your archive drives annually. We verify the underlying data integrity against the source, ensuring that the JPEG you open in 10 years looks exactly like it did today.

When a Lightroom catalog corrupts, you lose your edits, ratings, and collections. We teach a specific versioned backup strategy for catalog files (lrcat) that is separate from your raw files. This ensures you can roll back to yesterday's catalog instantly without having to restore terabytes of raw photos.

The Ultimate Creative Pro Bundle

For complete protection, combine these two essential courses.

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Advanced Carbon Copy Cloner Training

Master the tool. Covers task scheduling, SafetyNet, advanced filters, and bootable backups for your day-to-day operations.

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Digital Archival Techniques

Preserve the legacy. Strategies for LTO, NAS, cloud tiering, and long-term file format validation.

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