Aperture question re vaults

[MiniD3]

Hi Guys,
I Have 2 3TB USB3 vaults,
Plenty of room at the moment,
Wondering the best course of action when they are full, or nearly full
It has been suggested that I just copy from the 3TB vault to the new, say 4TB vault, rename it with the old file name and continue on
Will that plan work OK?

 

[Kelmon]

This isn't the most useful suggestion but unless you use a RAID array to create larger drives, I presume the "out of disk space" issue is something that you will face again shortly if you maintain a single Vault, which I presume is backing up a single Library (sorry, it's been a while since I've used Aperture). Given this I would think that you probably ought to think about creating a new Library and effectively manage 2 (a pain but I don't think you are going to get away from this), each backed up to a separate Vault on your 2 existing drives.

 

[MiniD3]

That makes sense,

Ive actually got 2 vaults which I back-up
And yes, your right, it is a single library
Glad I have plenty of time to think about it,
unless i venture into 36mp this year

 

[MCAsan]

Don't forget to also plan the Time Machine capacity growth in parallel. Between you Aperture library size and needing to do Time Machine backups, there is a point you may want to look into using a NAS.

 

[MiniD3]

Great info!

Didn't think about time machine as well