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Is there a way to script the backup feature of LR?
I ask because I have multiple hard drives in my Mac Pro and in addition to Time Machine taking hourly backups I have a separate backup drive which is run by Chronosync. That drive is unmounted as long as new files are backed up, and re-mounted whenever a backup new procedure is about to run, then unmounted again. Chronosync takes care of this.
So now, because I can't get LR to "wake up" that drive I first have to back them to a third drive (which is mounted all the time), then when the Chronosync-run backup drive is mounted again it backs up any new LR catalog files from that temporary backup location.
The ability to run a script would allow me to wake up the drive in question, so I'm hoping there's some sort of "expert option" in LR which I don't know about.
Alternatively I could just take away the unmount/mount feature for the backup drive and instead leave it mounted all the time, but I do it that way in hopes to keep the drive lasting longer.
I ask because I have multiple hard drives in my Mac Pro and in addition to Time Machine taking hourly backups I have a separate backup drive which is run by Chronosync. That drive is unmounted as long as new files are backed up, and re-mounted whenever a backup new procedure is about to run, then unmounted again. Chronosync takes care of this.
So now, because I can't get LR to "wake up" that drive I first have to back them to a third drive (which is mounted all the time), then when the Chronosync-run backup drive is mounted again it backs up any new LR catalog files from that temporary backup location.
The ability to run a script would allow me to wake up the drive in question, so I'm hoping there's some sort of "expert option" in LR which I don't know about.
Alternatively I could just take away the unmount/mount feature for the backup drive and instead leave it mounted all the time, but I do it that way in hopes to keep the drive lasting longer.