Help restoring library from external disk backup

I recently had to reformat my hard drive, and I backed up my entire "Pictures" folder to the external drive. Is there a simple way to restore my library to my original disk and get all of my data back without having to re-import everything?

Jbooye
Random answer: Perhaps.
It depends on what you want to achieve...
The advantage to a back up utility such as Chronosync or DejaVu is that they will execute incremental back ups - which is quite handy as your library grows. With incrementation, after the first back up (which copies the entire library) the subsequent runs simply update the library with the changes. This is much quicker with large libraries. Also, depending on the app, you can schedule back ups to run automatically.
But at heart, backing up is simply making a copy of the iPhoto Library Folder...
Regards
TD

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