Aperture 2 Back Up. Vault or Time Machine?

[Nick5]

For those that use Aperture 2, do you back up with the Vault or Time Machine to your external HD?
Someone at the Apple store suggested Vault as this stores the metadata better. Others at the store said not really.
I figured I would ask all of you.
Thanks.

If this is not posted in the correct section, please feel free to move.

[kccody60]

Greetings,

It is my understanding that you should use Vault. For some reason Tme Machine does not capture everything in Apeture (metadata may be one of those things). Apreture being an Apple product, I am surprised that the Time Machine does not work flawlessly with Aperture.

In the book, Apple Aperture 2: A workflow guide for digital photographers (Digital Workflow), it states not to use Time Machine and use Vaults. I dont have the book in font of me, but it does give the reasons why. Let me know if you want me to look that up later on.

Mark

[Nick5]

KC60. Thanks for the reply.
If you wouldn't mind, I would love to know what Apple has to say.
I thank you very much.

[timnosenzo]

Personally, I backup my Aperture library using vault, and back up my entire HD with SuperDuper!, so I essentially have 2 copies of my Aperture library on separate drives.

[iTimmeh]

I just back up everything on an External Hard Drive.

[MaxxuM]

Time Machine works fine with Aperture after 10.5.2. The Aperture Library isn't a single file - it's composed of all the information made by you in Aperture. If you right click the Aperture Library and click "Show Package Contents" you'll see all the files including the database's, projects, folders and images. If you save your images in the library (I personally don't) they'll be in there too. If you want to exclude the Aperture Library then move it out of your personal Home folder and then deselect it from Time Machine.

IME if you do a lot of image work (I do at least 300 per week + Photoshop images) then Time Machine is going to hog some resources. I don't backup until night time when I'm not on the computer. I also save to different folders vs in the Aperture Library. I also have two primary Libraries - one for work and one for business.

So, there really isn't any reason not to use Time Machine if you know how to use it. Just NEVER use it while Aperture is open. If you need to bring back files from Time Machine you'll need to enter the Library and retrieve the files you want as folders, not necessarily as individual images (look inside the Library to see what I mean).

[smcclelland]

For some reason Tme Machine does not capture everything in Apeture (metadata may be one of those things). Apreture being an Apple product, I am surprised that the Time Machine does not work flawlessly with Aperture.


My Time Machine works flawlessly with Aperture, as Maxxum pointed out after 10.5.2 it's superb. I recently swapped the 320gb HD for a 500gb 7200rpm in my MBP and did a bit-for-bit Time Machine restore which nailed everything from my aperture library to books to small prefs bits.

As tim also said I do sometimes use vaults as well and back them up to an external enclosure just to be on the safe side... all my images are referenced from external disks that get mirrored nightly so I keep the vaults in the root of my main image drive and mirror it to a raid10 enclosure every night as well as the time machine backups.

[sf1]

I use time machine on my time capsule and vaults in a different external hard drive.

[zincozinco]

as im using time machine I dont want to use the vault, 1 back up is enough...

[mattyb240]

as im using time machine I dont want to use the vault, 1 back up is enough...

I don't think one back up is enough!But thats my opinion, I use both vaults and time machine.