Comments on: It Just Works: Perforce As a Personal Backup Strategy http://ericscouten.com/2006/07/it-just-works-perforce-as-a-personal-backup-strategy/ The photography, travel, and technology blog of Eric Scouten Thu, 17 May 2012 10:57:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lightroom Technique: How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2012 Edition) | Eric Scouten http://ericscouten.com/2006/07/it-just-works-perforce-as-a-personal-backup-strategy/#comment-6343 Lightroom Technique: How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2012 Edition) | Eric Scouten Tue, 06 Mar 2012 06:08:44 +0000 http://blog.ericscouten.com/2006/07/22/it-just-works-perforce-as-a-personal-backup-strategy#comment-6343 [...] think of this as an external drive that I typically leave at home. (For the supernerds among you, this is what it is, but I don’t recommend this as a solution for most people. Just use an external drive, [...] [...] think of this as an external drive that I typically leave at home. (For the supernerds among you, this is what it is, but I don’t recommend this as a solution for most people. Just use an external drive, [...]

]]> By: Eric Scouten http://ericscouten.com/2006/07/it-just-works-perforce-as-a-personal-backup-strategy/#comment-4565 Eric Scouten Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:07:46 +0000 http://blog.ericscouten.com/2006/07/22/it-just-works-perforce-as-a-personal-backup-strategy#comment-4565 Yes, that's almost certainly referring to me. I don't consider P4 as a digital asset management tool. Whoever used those words was overstating the case. P4 is a great file replication and backup strategy, but it has none of the search or other DAM abilities to which you are referring. My collection of photos numbers around 10,000 photos (maybe 150GB, haven't specifically counted recently). LR + P4 is fine for that and maybe up into the few tens of thousands. Yes, that’s almost certainly referring to me. I don’t consider P4 as a digital asset management tool. Whoever used those words was overstating the case.

P4 is a great file replication and backup strategy, but it has none of the search or other DAM abilities to which you are referring.

My collection of photos numbers around 10,000 photos (maybe 150GB, haven’t specifically counted recently). LR + P4 is fine for that and maybe up into the few tens of thousands.

]]> By: Lawrence http://ericscouten.com/2006/07/it-just-works-perforce-as-a-personal-backup-strategy/#comment-4564 Lawrence Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:01:07 +0000 http://blog.ericscouten.com/2006/07/22/it-just-works-perforce-as-a-personal-backup-strategy#comment-4564 Hi there, I was just listening to Lightroom Podcast #8 and one of the speakers described how one of their colleagues uses Perforce as a digital asset management system. I had never heard of that before, and am not sure how that would work. From your description above, it sounds like you use it to synch lightroom catalogs, but is it capable of searching IPTC or other typical DAM tasks? I would like to hear more about your experiences. I'm curious, because like you, I have gigabytes of captioned photos on two servers, and am trying to figure out how to get a DAM to manage them. Many commercial options just aren't set up for collections of this size or cost thousands of dollars. Perforce's limited license is just right for my scale. On that same podcast, the speakers felt that even Lightroom wasn't up to the task of handling a large collection of pictures. Hi there,
I was just listening to Lightroom Podcast #8 and one of the speakers described how one of their colleagues uses Perforce as a digital asset management system. I had never heard of that before, and am not sure how that would work. From your description above, it sounds like you use it to synch lightroom catalogs, but is it capable of searching IPTC or other typical DAM tasks? I would like to hear more about your experiences. I’m curious, because like you, I have gigabytes of captioned photos on two servers, and am trying to figure out how to get a DAM to manage them. Many commercial options just aren’t set up for collections of this size or cost thousands of dollars. Perforce’s limited license is just right for my scale. On that same podcast, the speakers felt that even Lightroom wasn’t up to the task of handling a large collection of pictures.

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