Time Machine and iPhoto?

[supermarvin76]

When I run a Time Machine backup, does it back up all the photos I have in iPhoto?

I am asking this because I bought my Mac in Jan. 2011. I ran my first Time Machine Back up in Feb. and I ran a second one just now. However, when I 'enter' Time Machine, it shows that iPhoto is only about 213 MB, (Not GB) and I know I have at least 80-100 GB of photos in iPhoto.

Is there a way that I can enter Time Machine, and see exactly what in iPhoto has, or has not been backed up?

Thank you!

 

[vmachiel]

Launch Time machine when iPhoto is your foreground app and you should be able to "go back in time" to earlier versions of you iPhoto library and see you back-up pics.

 

[Matthew Yohe]

By the way, why are you only "running" Time Machine once every couple months? If you have a desktop computer you should leave the hard drive plugged in and let it run all the time. If you have a laptop, then I guess the only thing you could do is to buy an Airport Extreme wireless basestation, and it has a USB port on the back for a drive you can connect to.

 

[Tumbleweed666]

I ran my first Time Machine Back up in Feb. and I ran a second one just now.

What Mathew said - why?

If that's all you use TM for I wouldn't bother with it, you may as well just copy the entire iPhoto package off to a disk once in a while. The entire point of iPhoto is that its hands-off and pretty much continuous, if you only back up every 3 months, its pointless.