How to SPLIT my Library?

I have tens of thousands of digi snaps from 2003-onward, in a MANAGED library.
And I have just begun archiving all my OLD photos, negs, slides, etc (88-03), which is thousands and thousands more.
I'm backed up, multiple ways, and vaulted.
Obviously, I'm going to be adding more, and more digital pics, too.
I know that Aperture is "built" to manage HUGE libraries, but I recently had to re-load from a backup (due to the previous 3.4 upgrade debacle), and it took DAYS.
I don't know if I'm comfortable having a library that gargantuan
So I'm wondering what the steps would be to, maybe, break my library apart by, say, 5 year incriments.
Just looking for some advice from someone who's done it before
Thanks in advance!
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Kirby Krieger wrote:
Why did it takes days to, in effect, copy a few hundred GB?
I probably should've said "day" instead of "days." It took a LONG time. I'm connected to my TM by ethernet, and once I had my library corrupted by that update, I immediately "restored" my previous library from TM. And it just took FOREVER to copy it back over.
PS, my Aperture library is currently 431GB.
PPS, I'm backed up several different ways: Vault, Vault and Library to Time Machine, Everything to a third disc, and ALL OF THAT to a huge drive I have off-site.

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