Backup strategies, workflows, and keeping your work safe.
Practical guides on backup, file management, and protecting creative work on Mac. Written by the team behind Tusk, a backup app built for photographers, video editors, and content creators.
May 27, 2026
A practical guide to the best Mac backup software for video editors and photographers in 2026. What each tool actually handles, what it doesn't, and which combination works for the full creative workflow from SD card to long-term archive.
May 23, 2026
Time Machine works for whole-Mac recovery but leaves real gaps for photographers and video editors: no external drive tracking, no per-file backup status, and no way to know what's safe to delete before you do it. Here are the best alternatives.
May 21, 2026
Storage prices have roughly doubled since 2024 due to AI data center demand. Here's what hard drives, SSDs, and cloud storage actually cost right now, how they compare over five years, and which makes sense for your backup setup.
May 19, 2026
Hedge rebranded to OffShoot in 2024 and the price jumped significantly. Here are the best alternatives for SD card ingest on Mac, depending on what your workflow actually needs.
May 12, 2026
How to back up footage, project files, and edits across a multi-day shoot on Mac. A practical backup workflow for freelance filmmakers, from SD card ingest to wrapping a project safely.
May 10, 2026
A practical backup workflow for photographers on Mac: how to protect your RAW imports, editing catalog, and final exports, when it's safe to reformat a card, and how to find a shoot months later.
May 10, 2026
Running out of space on your MacBook is a storage problem on the surface, but a workflow problem underneath. Here's how photographers and video editors keep their Mac lean without losing track of a single file.
May 10, 2026
Right after a shoot, your footage exists in one place. Here's how to offload an SD card to multiple drives on Mac with checksum verification, so the footage is safe before you reformat.
May 6, 2026
Manual backups lead to errors and missing data. Here's how to set up automatic project folder backup on Mac so every file change is covered without you having to think about it.
May 2, 2026
The 3-2-1 backup rule is standard advice for photographers and videographers but most people set it up wrong. Here's how to do it properly on Mac, automatically and with verified transfers.
May 1, 2026
Shotput Pro costs $169 for a perpetual license and generates PDF transfer reports after every offload. Here are the best alternatives depending on whether those reports are actually part of your deliverables.
April 30, 2026
Carbon Copy Cloner is a capable scheduled backup tool for Mac, but it's not built for project-level backup or creative workflows. Here are the best alternatives depending on what you actually need.
April 28, 2026
ChronoSync is a capable sync tool, but it's built around scheduled tasks and folder rules rather than projects or creative workflows. Here are the best alternatives depending on what you actually need.
April 27, 2026
A comparison of OffShoot (formerly Hedge), Shotput Pro, and Silverstack for SD card offloading on Mac based on input from professional photographers and DITs. Which one fits your workflow, and what all three miss once the offload is done.