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Options for backing up your Aperture library

Options for backing up your Aperture library

From the course: Using iPhoto and Aperture Together

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Options for backing up your Aperture library

Aperture provides more backup solutions than iPhoto. We can use Time Machine as we do with the iPhoto. The pros to Time Machine are that it's automated. The cons are that it's going to back up our entire Pictures folder, and there could be all sorts of stuff in there that you don't care about and you don't want taking up space on your external hard disk. So, we have another option. It's called the Vault, and I have one setup right down here, the lynda Exercise Files Vault. And the way that I do that is I go to the Gear menu here and I choose Add Vault. And I have other options here too. I can remove it. I can update it, which we're going to do in here in a second, and then the all important Restore Library in case, I actually have to take advantage of my backup because I've lost data and I need to get it back. So, you use that right there. Now, the Vault will also tell you what's going on. When the arrows here are black, that means that everything is up-to-date. But let's take a photo…

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