In Lesson 7, you learned how to create a vault to make a complete mirror of your Library on another hard disk. What's nice about vaults is that although the initial backup takes a long time, future backups are speedy, because Aperture only has to update new or changed files. Note Remember, referenced master files are not backed up when you use a vault. You must back up those files by hand. For extra safety, you might want to create an additional vault on yet another disk, perhaps one that you keep off-site for added security. Because hard disk drives are so inexpensive now, keeping multiple vaults on multiple drives is an affordable, easy safeguard against lost images and projects. You create an additional vault using the same procedure that you used to create an initial vault.
Aperture will begin to create the new vault. Bear in mind that you will now need to update both vaults to keep both Library backups up-to-date. However, you don't need to have both vaults connected at the same time. For example, you can update one vault daily, and the other weekly. To update multiple vaults simultaneously, choose File > Vault > Update All Vaults. Note You can't create a vault on an optical medium such as a recordable DVD. To store Aperture content on a CD or DVD, you'll have to export the projects to a hard disk and then burn them to the optical disc yourself. Restoring Your Aperture LibraryHopefully you'll never need to do it, but if you ever need to restore your Library, Aperture can automatically rebuild it from a vault.
By default, Aperture will restore your Library to the default location inside your Pictures folder. However, you can specify a different destination by opening the Library Destination pop-up menu and choosing Select Destination. |