Aperture & Time Machine
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- Cenitgrade
So I got an external drive to back up all my photos and work.
Does TM back up my aperture library or should I use vaults... I hear TM backs up the entire Aperture library even if you make a simple change to one of your photos? That'd eat up my space in no time.
Anyone figured this out?
Cheers.
- JSK0
TM backs up your whole computer.
- digdre0
your TM makes a backup when you want it to
- Cenitgrade0
Yep I'm using TM for everything at the moment. However Aperture has it's own built in back up called vaults.
I'm wondering should I exclude the Aperture library from being backed up by Time Machine and use the Vaults feature instead. I just don't want to be re-backing up my entire Aperture library every time I change a star rating on a photo. Its 65Gs!
- digdre0
go to your system preferences
click on TM
then click options, then click on the "+" and select your Photo library
- modern0
I wouldn't have thought so, Apple doesn't usually store databases into single files.
It may look like a single file in finder but sometimes its just a folder with an extension, this is the case with the iPhoto library.
- Cenitgrade0
Hi Modern,
Thats my real dilema. There are conflicting reports on the net on whether it just backs up the edited file or the whole library.
- inhaler970
my understanding, TM backs up Everything. then as time passes on (say a month or whatever) it deletes the oldest states, but keeps adding new ones on.. so it Doesnt keep everything ever made.. so if you throw out a file, in x amount of time, that file will be deleted from TM.
If Im wrong, let me know.
- TM machine keeps 24x hourly and 31x daily backups. The weekly backups keep going until your TM disk is full.horton
- ninjasavant0
I use them both but I have 2 external drives, one dedicated to Time Machine and the other for file storage (2TB).
- ribit0
Time Machine does block-level backups doesn't it? (So it wont use excessive space if you make a small change, it only backs up the change)
- ribit0
oh, looks like it isn't block-level...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim…)
- Cenitgrade0
I guess I'll do both for the moment. Better safe than sorry. HD space is getting so cheap these days maybe I'll get another drive to divide and conquer.