Online backup recommendations for Aperture 3?

I'm interested in an online backup for just my Aperture library and would like to know if anyone has a recommendation and how it works. I have a vault archived to an external hard drive, and don't know, because of the way Aperture 3's library is stored, if I can do it easily or not. My library is only around 20GB right now, and would like to find a way do to incremental backups online, after the initial backup. I've heard about Crashplan, Mozy, Carbonite, Smugmug, etc., but don't know how to find a good one without wasting time. Thanks.

Referenced vs. managed should make no difference to a backup solution because a managed Aperture library isn't actually a file; it's a directory. It only has the illusion of being a single file when viewed in Finder.
An incremental backup solution can't actually tell the difference. The only reason Finder knows is because Apple puts an extended attribute on the directory node which flags Finder to not display it as a normal directory (but it is a normal directory). But any other software not programmed to check for this special flag would never know to treat the library any differently than it would treat any other directory hierarchy.
BTW, although you can descend into the Aperture Library and snoop around, you should NOT change anything. This can cause corruption as Aperture also maintains indexes & meta-data inside the library which it updates accordingly whenever it makes a change. If you were to manually make a change, you wouldn't also be able to update the appropriate meta-data and that will cause problems.

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