How to store files in aperture and on my computer?

[rajjejosefsson]

Is this right? Do i have to change the custom settings?
The external got two partitions, one for Time Machine and the second one for aperture and other stuffs.
thinking of getting a time capsule for the time machine but it have to wait.

 

[Designer Dale]

I don't know the language, but if Systemkamera translates to Aperture Library, yes. You can ignore the warnings, they would be important if you were making a bootable copy of your whole drive and that's not what you are doing.

Dale

 

[rajjejosefsson]

I don't know the language, but if Systemkamera translates to Aperture Library, yes. You can ignore the warnings, they would be important if you were making a bootable copy of your whole drive and that's not what you are doing.

Dale

Yes it was what i named it as.
Thanks for the help. and the others who have answered in this thread.

 

[ChrisA]

Hmmm I'm sorry I'm new to mac, i just want to have backup, does my Time Machine do the trick maybe?
just don't want to loose my pictures if something would happened to my computer.

and sometimes get the photos to a external hard drive thats not in my home.

Lots of posts here. But really this is not hard. First off "YES" use Time machine. It should be your first line of defense.

Then also in addition find a way to get the dat off-site. Either copy to hard drives that you ROTATE to a far away location or get an on-line backup service like Crashplan or Backblaze.

One problem is making an exact "clone" of your data is this senario: (1) You accidentally, without knowing it delete a file. Not problem because you used "CCC" just a few hours ago and have a backup. (2) next you run CCC and create a new backup and over write your only good copy of the file.

A better way to make backups is to do "incremental" backups. these never over write old data and copy only the changes you made to the backup. All old versions of the data are kept, at least until you have run out of space. The down side is that you need a very large backup disk.

Senario #2 is this: On Monday you make a backup, on tuesday the software, un-known to you corrupts a file, on Wednesday you make a backup saving the corrupted file over top of the good one.


Programs like CCC as attractive because conceptually they are easy to understand, you "clone" your working disk. What could be more simple? Yes it is easy to understand but it destroys older data and replaces it with new data which defeats the purpose of a backup. You need to hang on to that old data.

CCC can do this but you need a LOT of disk drives used in rotation.

Time machine is incremental as are most cloud backup services. You can use CCC if you understand it over writes data and yu may have to pull a file off another backup.

In summary you need three copies of the data at all times (even while a backup is in progress, so you might need four.) and the data much always be in two geographic locations (even while a backup is in progress, so you need to rotate the off-site disks)

 

[rajjejosefsson]

Lots of posts here. But really this is not hard. First off "YES" use Time machine. It should be your first line of defense.

Then also in addition find a way to get the dat off-site. Either copy to hard drives that you ROTATE to a far away location or get an on-line backup service like Crashplan or Backblaze.

One problem is making an exact "clone" of your data is this senario: (1) You accidentally, without knowing it delete a file. Not problem because you used "CCC" just a few hours ago and have a backup. (2) next you run CCC and create a new backup and over write your only good copy of the file.

A better way to make backups is to do "incremental" backups. these never over write old data and copy only the changes you made to the backup. All old versions of the data are kept, at least until you have run out of space. The down side is that you need a very large backup disk.

Senario #2 is this: On Monday you make a backup, on tuesday the software, un-known to you corrupts a file, on Wednesday you make a backup saving the corrupted file over top of the good one.


Programs like CCC as attractive because conceptually they are easy to understand, you "clone" your working disk. What could be more simple? Yes it is easy to understand but it destroys older data and replaces it with new data which defeats the purpose of a backup. You need to hang on to that old data.

CCC can do this but you need a LOT of disk drives used in rotation.

Time machine is incremental as are most cloud backup services. You can use CCC if you understand it over writes data and yu may have to pull a file off another backup.

In summary you need three copies of the data at all times (even while a backup is in progress, so you might need four.) and the data much always be in two geographic locations (even while a backup is in progress, so you need to rotate the off-site disks)

How should I do to make backups is to make "incremental" backups?

For right now I doing this
1.Time machine, which makes backup to my Time capsule (Obtain yesterday)
2. Using CCC with my external hdd that i plug into the computer (or should i have it connected to my timecapsule?)

How often does the TM do backup to my TC?

 

[Designer Dale]

CCC has a data handling setting that archives all replaced data in dated folders until 15 GB of disk space is left, then it starts to delete the oldest. I keep about two months of old replaced files on my backup disk. CCC does incremental backups. It scans my HD and only copies new or changed files. You can set it to delete these files, but it isn't recommended.

As far as running a backup to replace a lost file, just find the lost file on the backup and drag it over to the HD. Full backups are for crashes.

Time Machine was a major headache for me.

Dale

 

[rajjejosefsson]

CCC has a data handling setting that archives all replaced data in dated folders until 15 GB of disk space is left, then it starts to delete the oldest. I keep about two months of old replaced files on my backup disk. CCC does incremental backups. It scans my HD and only copies new or changed files. You can set it to delete these files, but it isn't recommended.

As far as running a backup to replace a lost file, just find the lost file on the backup and drag it over to the HD. Full backups are for crashes.

Time Machine was a major headache for me.

Dale

Should i connect my external hard drive to my time capsule? (if thats possible)
and how does it work with dropbox? does it do same as ccc or does it have to transfer the whole library again or just the new files?

 

[Designer Dale]

Should i connect my external hard drive to my time capsule? (if thats possible)
and how does it work with dropbox? does it do same as ccc or does it have to transfer the whole library again or just the new files?

I don't know anything at all about the current versions of Time Capsule. They are wireless devices and I don't know how to connect them. I also don't use Dropbox or any form of on-line storage or backup. I have external drives directly connected to my laptop.

Dale

 

[ChrisA]

How should I do to make backups is to make "incremental" backups?

For right now I doing this
1.Time machine, which makes backup to my Time capsule (Obtain yesterday)
2. Using CCC with my external hdd that i plug into the computer (or should i have it connected to my timecapsule?)

How often does the TM do backup to my TC?

Time Machine is always "incremental" it only save changes and does not over write old versions until it runs out of room. But with photos, Aperture never changes them so you don't have to worry about TM keeping 50 copies of each photo.

Time machine runs one every hour if the Mac is powered on and the time machine drive is accessible. TM can write to a TC or an external drive (or both)

CCC works with the external drive connected to the computer. If you don't want CCC to over write your old data then you need many external disks and use them in rotation. I think CCC has the ability to try and save old data from being over written on a kind of "best effort" basis. But it's strong point is that it is very easy to understand: it makes a clone of your disk.

Several of the on-line backup services work very well and will protect you from a disaster like a house fire or Earthquake. Some of them distribute your data to different data centers so even a fire in the data center does not take out your data. These typically run continuously in the background as long as you pay the $5 or $6 per month fee.

I use all three methods, a big Time machine disk connected directly to the iMac, a backup service (Backblaze) and now and then I make a CCC time backup and place it in a safe.

 

[CHNO-Chris]

OK my suggestion for storage is pretty much the same whether you use Aperture or Lightroom.

The software you are using is really just an index of your images, and you can store the actual photos wherever you like. My preference is to store the RAW images on an external drive and connect that only when I need to get to them for editing, or adding more images to the library. The drive I use is a CRU ToughTech Duo, which gives me mirrored drives and the ability to swap out a drive on a weekly basis for an offsite backup (see youtube .

That way you will use less of your internal hard drive/SSD for images that are probably accessed infrequently, and also make backups pretty simple. I'm not a fan of cloud backups for photographers - with broadband speeds in the UK it'd be nigh on impossible for a busy shooter to get all his images up to the cloud. Better to have the cloud backup as a last resort, in which case I recommend using SmugMug as they give you unlimited storage for jpeg's (i.e. finished files not your entire RAW library).