Last week, two ex-colleagues of mine made the exact same mistake as I made almost two years ago: leave their laptops in the trunk of the car. Both laptops were stolen and one of the guys lost a lot of pictures I heard.

That made me realize: I do have a backup script that copies all the important stuff from my laptop to a NAS drive, sitting in the basement somewhere, but I didn’t manage to get my pictures backed up yet in a nice way.

I’m using Aperture, which has its own internal backup mechanism using what they Vaults. Vaults however cannot be stored in a network drive–at least, that’s what the error message said when I last tried a couple of months ago. Today I found an article buy a guy that did manage to get his vault stored on a networked drive. Thanks!

p.s. I have a MacBook and like it for its size. The only time I actually hate it is when using Aperture. The graphics card is just too slow, so any real digital post processing is kind of a nightmare.
p.p.s. Just as Pages files, Keynote presentations and many other file types on a Mac, the Aperture Vault is a bundle. In other words, it’s just another directory which MacOS shows as if it were a single file. Very nice…