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What is the best way to back up my 26,000 photo's in iPhoto? My last hardrive just failed´as it was not compatiable with Mavericks and I wondered if there is an affordable cloud based option..
Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
The easiest method is to drag the library to an external HD that is formatted OS X Extended (journaled) with ownership set to be ignored.
Next would be to do the following and then use a backup application that can do incremental backups, i.e. copying only those new or modified files. Two that come to mind are Synk Pro and ChronoSync.
A possibly better solution is to use the EHD with Time Machine to backjup your boot drive with the library on it. That way every hour there's an incremental backup of all files that have been added or modified in the last hour. You'll always have a current backup. However, when you're away from the EHD the backups will cease if you turn off Time Machine or be made to your boot drive which can cause it to fill up fast. I'd turn it off when you're away from the EHD.
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there is no cloud system that is sutible for backing up the iPhoto library - most if not all can corrupt the library by having it on the wrong format of disk - and even if that does not happen the time to restore is excessive
You need one (or more is better) local hard drive backups - I personally recommend Time Machine as your first and a bootable clone (Carbon Coy CLoner for example) for a second local backup
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