IPhoto Back-up strategy

I would like to back-up my photos to an external hard drive and then delete all but the current years photos on my iMac, in order to free up disk space. Is there a way to just back-up photos by the year they were taken? Right now I have photos back to 2006 and would like to back-up and delete years 2006-2008 and retain all my adjustments to those pictures. I have been trying to get a handle on this for months now, so any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Here's one way to do it.
Copy the iPhoto Library to an external disk
Now you have two full libraries.
On the Internal disk, remove the files you don't want: Put them in the iPhoto trash and empty it.
Now you have a full library on the external and a smaller subset on the internal.
Note: *This is not a back up. Repeat. This is not a back up*. A Back up is a copy of the Library on another disk. to do this you'll need a +second hard disk+ with the full library.
Note: to find the pics from a particular year you can use a Smart Album or the Calendar tool in the Search Box.
Another Note: Managing Multiple Libraries - including moving pics/albums/rolls and metadata between them - is greatly facilitated by using iPhoto Library Manager
Regards
TD

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