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Backing up iPhoto

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Angler

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Hi
After doing a search I am still not clear which is the simplest way to back up my iPhoto library. I have 18g of pictures and I am thinking the easiest way to back up is to get a usb stick and just copy the library over to the stick. Then once in a while just copy my recent library over to the usb again. Am I missing something? Also if I ever needed to copy the pictures back to the iPhoto library would I just drag and drop back to the application. Thanks,
 
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Cubytus

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But why aren't you using an automated process? Time Machine does that, plus more.
 
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Angler

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Cubytus said:
But why aren't you using an automated process? Time Machine does that, plus more.
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I have time machine but i don't feel like waiting for the initial backup as I have 100g of music plus 50g of movies. Since I have music match and the movies are backed up in the cloud the only thing is the pics. So this seemed to be easy and quick. But I am open to other ways of doing this. Thoughts?
 
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Cubytus

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Angler said:
I have time machine but i don't feel like waiting for the initial backup as I have 100g of music plus 50g of movies. Since I have music match and the movies are backed up in the cloud the only thing is the pics. So this seemed to be easy and quick. But I am open to other ways of doing this. Thoughts?
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You can always exclude backups of your music and movies from iTunes. Music, if matched through iTunes Match, can be readily re-downloaded in case the drive fails. And movies can be easily re-downloaded should the need arise. It seems to be the case, so you may choose not to backup twice.

Even then, an initial backup of 150GB shouldn't take a week, expecially if NOT using USB.
 
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Angler

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Cubytus said:
You can always exclude backups of your music and movies from iTunes. Music, if matched through iTunes Match, can be readily re-downloaded in case the drive fails. And movies can be easily re-downloaded should the need arise. It seems to be the case, so you may choose not to backup twice.

Even then, an initial backup of 150GB shouldn't take a week, expecially if NOT using USB.
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i looked into excluding them but couldn't figure out how to do that....
 
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Angler said:
i looked into excluding them but couldn't figure out how to do that....
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Go into the Systems preference panel, then select Time Machine
Click on options in the lower right hand corner
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Then click on the little plus to select what you want to exclude
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MonkeySee....

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You can always set up a Flickr account. You can manually sync iPhoto with it.

Thats what i do but yeah, you have to do a manual sync.
 
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Cubytus

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ricosuave said:
Please be careful with a sync to Flickr, I did not see a way to retrieve deleted pictures from their service.
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As a rule of thumb, never trust anything you don't have direct control of. This especially applies to anything stored "in the cloud", unless you can afford to lose it.
 
mtngoatjoe

mtngoatjoe

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Don't forget to keep a backup of your important docs and photos at an offsite location.
 
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