“When you quit Lightroom, you’ll notice that from time to time it will
bring up the Back Up Catalog dialog, giving you the opportunity to make a
backup of your all-important catalog (it has all your edits, sorting,
metadata, Pick flags, etc., stored in its database”
At the top, it has a popup menu where you can choose how often to bring up this backup dialog, giving you the opportunity to back up from once a day to once a month (I
would choose how often to back up based on how many days of work you’re willing to lose if your catalog did become corrupt, and you had to use a backup catalog). By default, it stores this backup in a folder called
(wait for it…wait for it…) “Backups” inside the Lightroom folder where your regular catalog is stored on your computer. That’s okay, as long as your computer’s hard drive doesn’t ever crash or your computer doesn’t
get stolen.”” Quote from Scott Kelby
I like the choice of Every time Lightroom exists. It gives me a choice and I can evaluate based on the amount of activity I have done in the session.
“That’s why I recommend saving your backup to an external hard drive or to the cloud. In case the
unthinkable happens, you’ve got a backup stored somewhere else. To change where your backup catalog is stored, click the Choose button to the right of Backup Folder. I leave the two checkboxes turned on, so when it does the backup, it tests it to make sure nothing’s wrong with it, and it optimizes the backup catalog, as well. Both are well worth having it do for you.
“So, what do you do if “the unthinkable” happens: you launch Lightroom one day, and you get a warning dialog letting you know that your catalog is “...corrupt and cannot be used or backed up until it is repaired”? Well, first you’d click the
Repair Catalog button, and say a few prayers, and with any luck at all it will fix whatever was wrong with your
catalog, and you’re back up and running. But, what if, for whatever reason, you get the dialog seen hereat the bottom and it can’t repair yourcatalog? Well, we go to Plan B.” Quote Scott Kelby
“Plan B is to restore your latest backup copy of your catalog. Here’s how: In the “I can’t repair your catalog” second warning dialog, click the Choose a Different Catalog button, and when the catalog chooser dialog appears (I have no idea if that’s its proper name, by the way), click on Create New Catalog. You’re doing this just so you can access Lightroom’s menus (without a catalog open, you can’t get to those menus), so name it “Trash Me,” or whatever (it’s just temporary). Once it opens this empty catalog, go under Lightroom’s File menu and choose Open Catalog. In the dialog, navigate to your Backups folder (wherever you chose to save it in Step Two), and you’ll see all your backups listed in folders by date and 24-hour time. Open the folder for the most recent backup, double-click on the “.lrcat file (that’s your backup), click the Open button, and you’re back in business.” Quote Scott Kelby
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