Photo Backup - 2 places ?

I don't want my Photos backed up, or clouded
After upgrading to ios8 I set up Backups, and shut off "Photos" in the iCloud menu. When it tried to backup this morning, it said not enough space.
I see that it also has a setting in Storage/Manage Storage for "Photo Library", which I also then had to shut off.
What/Why are the 2 of these ???

This is the first time you sync your iPhone with iPhone on you Mac? Because if you had synced before, only new images of your iPhone will be asked to import on iPhoto. Also you can import only photos content taken with the built-in camera or captured on the device. You can't import photos already synced from iTunes.
Like years ago without digital images, most people aren't well organized regarding storing photos, that'w why the are tons of people asking (not talking about you specifically).
The best way to have your images organized it's through iPhoto if you have a Mac. You can have all of your images well organized, from your devices (iPhone, iPad, etc), and also photos from any other source (DSLR camera, shared images, etc).
Some tips:
- Be sure to enable in iPhoto » Preferences » Advanced » and check “Copy items to the iPhoto Library”.
- Delete locally images on your HD after importing to avoid duplicates.
- Always have a Time Machine backup up to date. If you are afraid about an external HDD failure, you can have another TM backup simultaneously (customized just for the folders just to keep important data), like i do.
- Use iTunes to syncronize your iPhoto Library entirely or customized for any the device you want.
- Also you can take advantage of your Home Sharing, Photo Stream and Photo Sharing to save space.
Regarding iCloud Data Centers, all data is encrypted and doesn't remain in just one server. To my knowledge if you live in US your iCloud data resides in US Data Centers. IMO Apple is the most realible in terms of encryption and privacy. You can use Google or other services, but I'm afraid that no data is 100% safe today unless is in your own hands. Are we 100% sure that all of our online Credit Cards, Bank Accounts, Hosting Services, ISP's, etc, meet your understandable requirements? That's why I'm using, aside iCloud, local backups. But it's just my opinion, and I prefer leave that for blogs.

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Hello.
I would like to back up some or all of my photos on 2 external hard drives - WD My Book Essential 2TB and a WD My Passport 1TB
I'm using Aperture 2.1.4 and have a library size of 244.48GB. I'm looking for some advice / guidance on how I should go about performing this back up. I'm wondering if I have to duplicate the master files in Aperture in order to copy them onto 2 seperate devices, can I select only certain albums/files to be backed up, can I save copies of photobooks I've made or is it only master files that should be copied and saved?...... ect.
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Ultimately what I recommend is to from within Aperture select "Relocate Masters" and move Masters to an external drive. However with only 2 GB hard disk drive (HDD) capacity available Aperture may have difficulty performing the operation. So I suggest:
• Move any non-image data you can off the internal drive, empty the trash, and restart the Mac.
• Back up Aperture to a Vault on an external drive.
• From within Aperture select "Relocate Masters" and move Masters to an external drive. Because your HDD is badly overfilled do this one Project at a time.
The Library on an internal drive with Masters/originals referenced on external drives is preferable for anything other than a small Library.
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Then the card is reformatted in-camera, not before.
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Otherwise the Library usually grows large enough to at some point become problematic like yours is now.
HTH
-Allen
Message was edited by: SierraDragon to add steps and clarify.

Photo Backup - 2 places ?

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