Are there practical limits on elements organizer catalog size?

I have 90K items in my PSE11 organizer catalog. I'm running Win8 and I'm getting nervious that catalog size will become an issue. Backing up the catalog is cumbersome since it is 337G. If I need to break it up into smaller pieces, what is the best way to do this? Is there a bridge or link between catalogs? Thanks

See:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Limits_on_the
and:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Splitting_and_rearranging
and:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Merging_Catalogs
The only real problem with big catalogs is what you have found : it's long and tedious to do backups. From the above links you can see that it's a bad idea to split catalogs, unless there is nothing common within them. Contrary to Lightroom, the organizer offers no satisfactory solution to merge catalogs. And the size of the catalog has no real impact on the speed of your organizing.
My suggestion would be to think about alternative backup procedures : anyway, if you want to upgrade to Lightroom, you'll have to choose your own backup system for picture files. LR only offers backups for the catalogs (database).
- Once you know where your big catalog is stored (menu help / system info) it's easy to create a desktop shortcut so that you can save the catalog itself. That's very quick compared to the backup of all your files (several hours).
- Consider using PSE incremental backups. I am not fond of them, but they are acceptable if you master the process : they save the database fully each time and let you restore to a given backup sesssion. Many users rely on incremental backups without understanding the process and are unable to do a complete restore in case of a big problem.
- Consider using external backup tools (as if you were with Lightroom). They can be easier and they offer automatic and periodic backup workflows. I am using Synctoy with Win7 and do periodic clones of my drives with Acronis
- Continue to use the integrated backup procedure when you have to change OS, computer, drives... and migrate all your pictures and catalog.

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