Nothing gives me a thrill of terror up my spine like the nonchalant messages a computer gives when something has gone terribly wrong. Launching Lightroom and seeing a message like, “This catalog is corrupted and you’re totally out of luck” is one of the worst things that could happen to my professional life. Fortunately, the engineers at Lightroom understand this, and they’ve given us a simple way to prepare for just such an instance: automatic backups.

(This article is adapted from a chapter in a useful book by Photofocus authors, Get Organized in Adobe Lightroom.)….

Source: Backing Up Your Lightroom Catalog