IPhoto faces disappeared!

I have been slowly getting round to identifying the faces on iphoto and after a software update on the mac recently all my faces have dissapeared. The photos have remained, the events have remained and the places have remained, but the faces have all gone. Can anyone help?? I had logged close to 9000 faces which took a long time, so would like to know if they are recoverable. Note: I haven't backed anything up on time machine (Although I have got the photos backed up on an external hard drive and disks which were from when I had a PC) I was hoping that owning a mac would avoid nonsensicle issues like this!!!
Thanks,
Matt.

Backing up to DVD using the Share -> Burn command will preserve Faces.
Before you buy a NAS make sure Time Machine will work with it. You don't need either a NAS or Time Machine to back up an iPhoto Library. Any external disk will do.
Most Simple Back Up
Drag the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to another Disk. This will make a copy on that disk.
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Use an app that will do incremental back ups. This is a very good way to work. The first time you run the back up the app will make a complete copy of the Library. Thereafter it will update the back up with the changes you have made. That makes subsequent back ups much faster. Many of these apps also have scheduling capabilities: So set it up and it will do the back up automatically. Examples of such apps: Chronosync or DejaVu . But are many others. Search on MacUpdate

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