Creating Multiple Vaults


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.

1.

Connect an additional drive and turn it on.

2.

Click the Vaults Panel button at the bottom of the Projects panel.

The Vaults panel opens.

3.

Choose Add Vault from the Vault Action pop-up menu.

4.

In the Add Vault dialog, navigate to your external drive.

5.

Click the Add button.

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 Library

Hopefully you'll never need to do it, but if you ever need to restore your Library, Aperture can automatically rebuild it from a vault.

1.

Connect the disk drive that contains the vault that you want to restore.

2.

In Aperture, choose File > Vault > Restore Library.

3.

In the Restore Library dialog, choose Source Vault > Select Source Vault.

4.

Navigate to the vault on your external disk and click Select. Then click Restore.

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.




Apple Pro Training Series(c) Aperture 1.5
Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 1.5
ISBN: 0321496620
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 190

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