Export Advice

Morning Everyone
I have decided to tackle a serious backup on my Aperture images as they are part of a larger move ( possibly to LR but I'm waiting like everyone else )So, I am systematically going through each folder ( or project ) and exporting versions, creating the same folder structure on external drive as my Aperture Library.
I have a few questions.
file type >> I am assuming that I will simply leave any referenced masters where they are and export full .JPGS.
once I do this for my entire library, is there any reason to keep around the referenced MASTERS ? I could just drag ( copy ) in the Versions from my backup and save all that space assuming I'm not going to be working on them again.
Aperture has a separate export for 'Metadata' - what exactly does this do ? When I name it and drop it in the same Project folder nothing appears. Is it copying all the rating, label and keyword info ? And why wouldn't it just do this in the first place ?
Has anyone heard about Metadata being recognized by LR ?
Once I am done with this I was simply going to take everything 2 years and older and export it as a new library and archive it. Anyone been through this before that provide any direction ?
Any advice / tips etc greatly appreciated ( ya, I'm talking to you Leonie ; > )
JJ

My advice it to rigorously separate the three items you are considering.
A back-up is a copy of your system and the files that you are currently working with.  Your Aperture Library is easy to back-up.  It's a file.  Any Referenced Originals are easy to back up.  They are files.  Back-ups are used to restore files in the case of drive failure or file corruption.  You should back up every computer file you use, twice — that's three copies total — and never have all three copies in the same physical location.
An archive is a long-term storage of valued digital data.  Since it is long-term, it should be (as much as possible) program- and platform-independent.  You back-up work-in-progress.  You archive finished work that you will not use again.  Digital images should be archived in a lossless format.  JPG is not lossless, and is counter-indicated.  An archive of digital images is simply a lot of files, stored in a lossless format, on a media that you expect to endure longer than your need for the data.
Since an archive of digital images is stored as files, and you should not use any file without a back-up, you should back-up your archive — twice — and never store all three copies in the same physical location.
A portable dataset is temporary. It is used to move records from one database to another.  After a successful move, the portable dataset has no function, and should be destroyed.  What information you include, and in what format, depends entirely on the source and the target databases.
Each of the three datasets mentioned above — a back-up, an archive, and a portable dataset for transferring between databases — has specific uses and, therefore, specific forms.  They are not interchangeable.
Your working files are a given.
Back-ups are, I hope, a given.
Required:
Working copy.  Working copy back-up 1.  Working copy back-up 2.
What you archive, and how your archive it, are up to you.
There is no reason (that I know of) to archive data that remains part of your working set of (in this case) images.  Either retain it in your working set, or archive it.  Most people do not need an archive at all.
Optional:
Archive.  Archive back-up 1.  Archive back-up 2.
The portable dataset you will create to move your collection of digital images currently stored in Aperture to another database should be made and used for that purpose only.  If you are moving your image database from Aperture to Lightroom, find out what form that portable dataset should have.
Temporary:
Portable dataset.  ← destroyed after target database is confirmed.
HTH,
—Kirby.

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