Saving aperture library to external disk

I did a search and it appears time machine is not a great way to save aperture, and for my needs in general time machine isnt a great option until I can easily afford huge disks. Anyway, my Aperture library is growing and saving each time from internal disk to external disk is taking longer and longer. Is there any way to save changes in Aperture without having to move the whole library every time?
Thanks

i use this in a shell script. change the paths to reflect your situation and save the file with a .command extension that way you can run it from the finder.
#!/bin/sh
# Sync of Aperture library with external disk muse one
echo "Sync of Aperture library with external disk muse one"
echo "----------------------------------------------------"
rsync -avE --delete /Users/joost/Pictures/Aperture\ Library.aplibrary/ /Volumes/muse\ one/Libraria\ Principal\ Aperture/Aperture\ Library.aplibrary

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