Reinstalling Lion, How to back up iPhoto library?

[dacoolest]

Hi, I want to reinstall OS X Lion for some reason and I have about 2GB of photos in my iPhoto. How do I back up them ? I want them to appear the same way when I put them back after reinstalling. Any idea?

 

[r.j.s]

Are you allowing iPhoto to manage the files?

If so, copy the iPhoto Library file over to an external drive.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Copy the iPhoto Library file you use located at Macintosh HD / Users / YOU / Pictures / to an external storage device and after reinstalling Mac OS X 10.7 Lion copy it back to that folder.
Don't you use some kind of backup mechanism?

I have one 500 GB HDD for my photographs (digital and analog) libraries and editing documents, one 500 GB HDD with my personal video footage in an editing friendly format.
Both 500 GB HDDs get backed up to one 1 TB HDD via CarbonCopyCloner.
And that 1 TB HDD gets backed up to another 1 TB HDD via CarbonCopyCloner.
Therefore I have three copies of my important data.

 

[dacoolest]

Are you allowing iPhoto to manage the files?

If so, copy the iPhoto Library file over to an external drive.

Yes, that is enabled. Thanks for the reply.

Copy the iPhoto Library file you use located at Macintosh HD / Users / YOU / Pictures / to an external storage device and after reinstalling Mac OS X 10.7 Lion copy it back to that folder.
Don't you use some kind of backup mechanism?

Thanks for the reply. No I do not have any kind of backup mechanism, my macbook pro recently stopped recognizing the external HDD which has been used as a backup drive.

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One more question, would this mess up my bootcamp partition or the windows 7 installation?