Backing up iPhoto Library '08 to the same drive

I'm installing a new iPhoto '09 in a couple of days. Need to backup iPhoto Library to the same drive as a temporary solution, just for this installation.
How do I do that ?
Old Toad has some software, but not sure which one.
Thanks!

770 GB is 99% photo and music ?
yes, I would do the same thing.
I guess you have a huge musical collection. If I could, I would buy every musical CD from 1950-1980, the most popular ones, top of the charts. For me the music from these years is pure gold. Classical of course too, Chopen, Racmaninov, Chaikovsky, Mozart, the Giants of American music from Blues to Rock, Gershwin, Burt Bacharach, ...just no end to the incredible talents.
And what's happening today in popular music world is total lack of talents and tragical commercialism of tasteless and meaningless music.
I don't like to share my thoughts on today's so called "music", but somehow couldn't resist...
I also have a musical collection, probably 1% of yours. Everything downloaded when I used a PC.
Now with a Mac I don't want to do that. Buying from time to time CDs.
Do you download from those sites ? ...forgot already the names..
If do, which one do you recommend ?

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I know my library to actually be closer to 680GB as I've been using it for a long time. When I click 'get info' on the drive itself, it shows it is around 945GB full which makes sense as there are other files also stored there.
Could someone please explain how a 2TB drive can hold a 2.65TB file? Then, could someone help me restore it back to its actual size? I would like to back up my library but can't easily move such a massive file. I am also worried about its stability as I presume something is corrupt in there.
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I am unsure if it has been formatted MacOS but it is a My Passport for Mac so I imagine it was initially set up correctly - especially as it has worked well until now.
You can check that by selecting your external drive in the Finder and using the command "File Get Info ⌘I " on the drive. The General section of the info panel will show you the File System.
I have never seen that symbol in in iPhoto. In Aperture it is marking photos that have been downloaded from Photo Stream or Flickr or Facebook. Are you syncing your library with any of these services?

Backing up iPhoto library located on external hard drive

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Most Simple Back Up
Drag the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to another Disk. This will make a copy on that disk.
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Use an app that will do incremental back ups. This is a very good way to work. The first time you run the back up the app will make a complete copy of the Library. Thereafter it will update the back up with the changes you have made. That makes subsequent back ups much faster. Many of these apps also have scheduling capabilities: So set it up and it will do the back up automatically. Examples of such apps: Chronosync or DejaVu . But are many others. Search on MacUpdate

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Thinking about hooking up a hard drive to APBS to use as a time machine for several macs /iPads, how does time machine keep these different devices separate? How does it keep the backup info separate? Thanks

APBS is usually called AEBS or Airport Extreme Base Station.
You can only do Time Machine to the newest one.. it is not supported on earlier models.
See http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
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http://pondini.org/TM/Works.html
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I had ordered a photo book print two years back. I want to reorder the same book again now. However, I have lost the album project/photos from iphoto.
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No. Apple only keeps the pdf file for a book for 30 days. Without the library and book project you won't be able to reorder the same book.
Even though the horse is out of the barn the following tutorial might be of help for future books, i.e. create a new library for each book): iP08 - Archiving an iPhoto Book for Editing and/or Ordering at a Later Date
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John

I think you may have answered a question I have with the above, but to be sure here is what I would like to do. I currently have iPhoto09 with about 50,000 pictures in it, which seems too much for it to manage. I would like to use Aperture, which I understand is better for managing a large number of photos, but still have iPhoto available to make slide shows, etc. for our AppleTV. Would the process you described above work for that?
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