Best practice to back up our most important asset : iPhoto!

Hi everyone!
I consider my 30k photos which I've carefully tagged/marked/modified/red eyed/etc as my most important asset. I've spent days and days on iPhoto to eventually build this 50GB library.
I've bought my 500 GB TC few months ago and now guess what, it's completely full!
Modifications calculation, deletion and updates of my library are now taking forever. I understand from this board that Time Machine/TC is updating the 50GB as a whole instead of updating only the modifications ... what a nightmare in this almost ideal apple world!
Any recommendation to share? Any free apps to do this work for me?
So far my personal brainstorming came to this process:
1) download "Time Machine Editor"
2) schedule updates to be daily or weekly
3) be patient
Thanks for sharing your best practices!
dofre

I would get a program such as SuperDuper ( http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22126 ) to CLONE your hard drive onto the external (as an image, if you don't have a free partition) and then when your new HD comes back, clone it back.
SuperDuper is well worth the $20 shareware fee.

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We recently experienced such a scenario in which the forms we developed in ABAP, and access through our portal, had become corrupt. What would happen to us when we attempted to access the form via the portal would be a SOAP error. SOAP errors, I understand, can happen for various reasons but prior to the incident, our forms were working just fine. We attempted to retrace our steps to identify the cause of the problem but found we could not replicate the issue. Through analysis of the forms, we identified the corruption in the master page and found that if we copied the sections of the form that were not corrupt to a new master page, the form would work properly again. Our thought is that this can not be the only method to recover from an incident like this and would like to know if others have experienced or have practices in place that would minimize the impact.
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I had many difficulties with this kind of errors like 2 years ago. Of course it was getting better with every patch level, and with LCD 8, LCD 8.1 etc.I don´t have any problems with the newest solution, but remember the feelings. I had to throw away a three days work once because of this "errors". But the solution is easy:
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I am about 3/4 of the way through development of a small to medium size JSF application. Sometimes I really like JSF, but much of the time I am left puzzled or frustrated for hours trying to find workarounds to JSF's bugs/glitches and design flaws.
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Hi BrownBear,
I've been using JSF for about 6 months now and I'd be glade to help as much as I can.
Concerning parameters, I'm not sure what your issue is but I use the f:param tag to pass them. If you could post an example of what you are trying to do, I could see exactly what your issue is. Maybe the f:param can't help you.
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Does anybody out there have any tips/best practices on backing up the OVM Repository as well ( of course ) the VM's? We are using NFS exclusively and have the ability to take snapshots at the storage level.
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Please find below the response from the Oracle support on that.
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ShosMeister wrote:
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[JavaWorld: Inheritance versus composition: Which one should you choose?|http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-11-1998/jw-11-techniques.html]
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