I think you and are in basically in sync on the matter. Yes backups should happen, but yes they are also problematic and in some cases can cause as much harm as good. I've seen our IT professionals freak out more than once when a RAID that was supposedly backing up all along couldn't be restored: You never know until you try to restore it. Then comes the matter of dealing with big data. I have 750gig in just TV shows. So that means I have to dedicate another 1tb drive just to back it up. Expand that out to movies, music, photos and so on. At some point I need to buy a multi-drive NAS and populate it with 4tb drives. I probably need to set up at least three systems like that: Live data, mirrored backup, incremental backup. But I don't have endless funds.
Old Toad wrote:
As for Apple not working on it who says they're not?
They do, as you just said.
Old Toad wrote:
Apple has said that further development of iPhoto (and Aperture) has been discontinued in favor of the new Photos app (which at this time isn't any where near where it should be).
So that leaves us/me in limbo. For now, I'll roll back my Mac and just decline all future updates.
Its just infuriating when the update program should have made a backup of the database. You back up the database. You update the program. You create a new updated database from the old data. If all goes well you run with it. If it fails you offer to roll the user back. Its a pretty standard update protocol.