I’ve just seeded my aperture library to Crashplan - all working fine. The question I have is - I haven’t updated my local vault for some days. If I DO update the local vault from aperture - does crash plan see the original files as having changed and resync the entire library? Basically - am I best just forgetting the vault?
I don’t want to update the vault to find Crashplan wants to reseed 200gb+ of data!
Any help would be much appreciated!
Vaults are effectively library folders with a different extension (vs .aplibrary). CrashPlan should only send changed files to the cloud, not the entire vault folder. There is an article somewhere here on ApertureExpert that discusses how you can change the extension on your vault and use it like a Library if you have a crisis and don’t want to restore the entire Library.
For example, imagine you deleted some images from your library and emptied the trash, then remembered you needed them and know the vault has them. Rather than you restoring the entire vault you can change the extension, open it with Aperture, export the missing images to a new Library, exit Aperture, and change the extension back. Then import the library of missing images back into the library where you accidentally deleted them.
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Thanks Walter - I think I may have confused the issue though. It’s not the destination local vault I’m worried about (I don’t have that selected for crash plan). It’s the original aperture library - which is part of my crash plan.
If I update the local vault - from aperture - does aperture mark the original library files as having changed in some way - and - this is the big issue - does crash plan then think my original aperture library is changed and tries to reseed the entire library to crash plan….
I THINK that’s a little clear (Well hope!) - thanks for your reply!
The files on disk won’t be changed. Aperture may record in its database that the files were updated in the vault.
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