For you Aperture users out there who have noticed particularly heavy disk usage during a Time Machine backup, here’s the explanation for those woes: according to an Apple knowledge base article , if Aperture is running when a Time Machine backup occurs and the Aperture library is included in the backup.
Turns out Time Machine doesn’t really like that, so it will exclude your Aperture library from the backup. Instead, it’ll wait until you quit Aperture and then back up your entire library, not just the changes since the last backup.
Not terribly convenient, but then again, neither is Apple’s workaround, which involves disabling Time Machine’s automatic backups and then backing up manually when you’re not running Aperture. In fact, the doc goes so far as to say “Avoid performing backups or restores while Aperture is running.” Great.
I’m not an Aperture user myself, so I haven’t run into this—how about you guys?
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For you Aperture users out there who have noticed particularly heavy disk usage during a Time Machine backup, here’s the explanation for those woes: according to an Apple knowledge base article , if Aperture is running when a Time Machine backup occurs and the Aperture library is included in the backup.
Turns out Time Machine doesn’t really like that, so it will exclude your Aperture library from the backup. Instead, it’ll wait until you quit Aperture and then back up your entire library, not just the changes since the last backup.
Not terribly convenient, but then again, neither is Apple’s workaround, which involves disabling Time Machine’s automatic backups and then backing up manually when you’re not running Aperture. In fact, the doc goes so far as to say “Avoid performing backups or restores while Aperture is running.” Great.
I’m not an Aperture user myself, so I haven’t run into this—how about you guys?
Primary category: Software
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