[knolan]

While I use Photoshop CameraRAW to edit RAW files I don’t use Lightroom or any file library management software. Everything goes into folders on my PC on a dedicated drive which is shared so our Macs can access them and also backed up to BackBlaze. Any JPEGs that I want to share with family are then copied to iCloud photo album or posted to Flickr etc.

I was using a WD myCloud that I retired when we moved house a couple of years ago as a secondary backup but that’s not a runner anymore. I’ve 32TB RAID6 volume on my personal office server and I’ll probably use that as a separate offsite backup.

We do use Time Machine with a Time Capsule that I’ve recently replaced the disk in. I don’t really trust it and also pay for iCloud Drive for most of my other data. Work also provides Google Drive which I use for data that is shared with others.

It’s all a bit of a mess but I think I’ve got some protection in place.

[y04nn]

The (not last) version of Lightroom that I use store and organize all the pictures in an accessible directory. The only issue I had when I started using Lightroom was with the import method, I had not selected the "Copy" method and realized that after I deleted the originals. Now I always double check. I would also advise to use multiple Lightroom catalogs, Lightroom makes it easy. Also I don't think Lightroom is the source of the issue here. Anyway that's why it's important to always have at least 2 backup solutions with one being offline.