Using LR to back-up?

An idea I had yesterday...

After a shoot, I want to save all the RAW's onto a DVD. I would also like to save the settings of the edit's I've made when in LR too. That way, I wouldnt have to bother backing-up the exported JPEG's unless I've made edit's in CS2 or other programs extrenal to LR.

I have thought about creating a new catalog for each shoot, and then svaing this catalog along with the RAW files's. Will that work?

Is there any way to save a complete shoot that way onto DVD? Including all the settings and edit's made in LR?

Yes that would work. Alternatively you could export to DNG so your edits are within each file rather than having the catalog.

In2Photos wrote in post #3565214
Yes that would work. Alternatively you could export to DNG so your edits are within each file rather than having the catalog.

Ah... I meant to ask someone about DNG, one day!

So, if I did what I said and saved the shoot as a new catalog, I could save the catalog in the same folder as the RAW's, then just copy the whole folder over, would this work?

RE: DNG, say I have a 7mb RAW file, do all my edits, then export to DNG. How big will the DNG file be?
Will the edits be editable at a later date?

sando wrote in post #3565295
Ah... I meant to ask someone about DNG, one day!

So, if I did what I said and saved the shoot as a new catalog, I could save the catalog in the same folder as the RAW's, then just copy the whole folder over, would this work?

Yes, that would work. But honestly i don't think having a ton of catalogs is the way to go. I have 3 catalogs currently, personal, wedding, and sports. But all shoots from these are in the same catalog. I guess if you really need to save disk space then go with your method, but I would just have a single removable drive for each of the files and keep the catalog on the main HD. This way you can still work on files even though the drive is not connected.

This depends on what size you choose your embedded preview to be and if you choose to embed the RAW file. Remember that DNG is a compressed RAW format so the file size is usually smaller, but a larger preview can change that.