How do I back up Apeture photos to iCloud?

Hi
Appreciate any ideas folks may have on this one. I've signed up for iCloud and photostream is working nicely. I was hoping that I could use iCloud as a backup application for my Mac. Most precious item is photos and videos. I've tried both Carbonite and Mozy and found them both lacking in performance.
Is there a way of using iCloud as a back up for Mac files? I've searched and can't find anything.

You should be importing all pics taken with the iphone to your computer regularly as you would with any digital camera. This is covered in the manual.
iOS: Importing personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
iCloud is not designed as a storage location to archive photos. If you backup your device to iCloud, then only the photos in camera roll will be backed up. And the only way to get them back is to restore a device using the backup - you can't selectively restore individual photos. Use photo stream as a way to sync photos to other devices (again, don't count on it as a storage location), but the stream has limitations, up to 1000 photos and they store for up to 30 days. Bottom line, sync to a computer using USB to get photos into a safe archive.

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The memory on my MAC is full. It holds 4GB of RAM of which 79GB are photos. I would like to back up my photos to an external drive but just do not know how. I do not wish to use time machine. How do I back up my photo library, then delete them from my MAC to free up that 79GB? Thank you.

Hi
Just to clarify a couple of points in your post.
RAM (memory) is different from hard drive space. You have 4GB of RAM, but that has no bearing on the amount of drive space you have, of which we know that 79GB are photos.
If those photos are in iPhoto, you should be able to move the entire iPhoto Library, from the Pictures folder, to your external hard drive. You can just drag and drop. Do not have iPhoto open while you're doing this. Once it's done, you can double-click on the moved iPhoto Library file to associate it with iPhoto, so that the app remembers where the library is for next time.
One more thing. When you move a file to a different location, and then delete the original, you don't have a backup. You still only have one copy. So if that external drive dies, you will lose all your photos. Time Machine is a very good way to prevent this from happening. You should dedicate a different drive for Time Machine backups.
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2452022?start=0&tstart=0
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1) Can I back up all photos to icloud and the external hard disk I normally use for photos? If I then delete photos from the iPhone do the get deleted on iCloud?
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1. What format is the external drive? It sounds like it's ina format that Macs can't write to. Is it a NAS or NTFS?
2. Easiest thing: just move your iPhoto Library to the external
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
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What photos, photos in your photo stream? If so, these can only be viewed:
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On your Mac, they appear in the Photo Stream view in iPhoto or Aperture.
On a PC, your photos download to the Photo Stream download folder. By default, this folder is located atC:\Users\Apple\Pictures\Photo Stream\My Photo Stream. You can change this location by visiting Photo Stream Options in the iCloud Control Panel for Windows.
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Hi Sebnem Turksoy,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If you would like to sync your iCloud photo stream to your PC, you can set up iCloud using these steps:
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Your new photos appear automatically on the iOS devices, computers, and Apple TV you set up with My Photo Stream, no matter which iOS device or computer you use to take or import new photos. For system requirements, see the Apple Support article iCloud: System requirements.
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Install the iCloud Control Panel if it isn’t already installed on your computer.
Open the iCloud Control Panel, then turn on Photos.My Photo Stream is set up by default. To turn it off, click Options, then turn off My Photo Stream.
To change the iCloud Photos location on your computer, click Options. Click Change to choose a folder, then click OK.
Click Apply.
You can find these steps in the iCloud help pages:
http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mmf1896412ec
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I'd like to get some of my memory back on my iPhone. I have lots of room on my ioud account but I'm not sure how it works. If I delete photos from my phone will they subsequently delete from iCloud on my next backup. And if not, how do I then view all of my iCloud only photos?
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see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083

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