Export rolls to hard drive

Is it ok to export a few rolls to an external hd for back up? I have backed up my Iphoto library but I just want to add a few more recent rolls w/out doing the whole Iphoto library again. I was going to install iLife 08 that I just purchased and I wanted to make sure everything was backed up before I did it.
Thanks,
Isabel
Message was edited by: issier
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Isabel
When you copied your iPhoto Library Folder to your external disk you made a copy of the library.
Now, if you move rolls from the library on your computer to the library on the external, then that library will NOT know about these files. They might as well not be there.
Personally, I use DejaVu for back up on the iPhoto Library. It does it incrementally. The first back up takes a while, but thereafter it's only the changes that get moved over so it's much faster.
Regards
TD

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