Vault or Time Machine?

I frequently back up my vault in Aperture.  Should I be excluding my Aperture library from Time Machine?  Does it matter?  Are there pros and cons? 
Thank you so much.

To my chagrin, not a single photo in my Aperture has ever been saved in any backup, EVER.
Time Machine will backup all your photos, unless you have excluded them from backup - all my photos are on my TimeMachine backup, without any any problem.
Check your TimeMachine settings:
Open "System Preferences > Time Machine" and click the "Options" button. This will show you, if items have been excluded from the Time Machine backup. Do you see your Aperture Library there? If yes, delete it from the "Exclude" list.
How do you tell, that your images have not been backed up? In the Time Machine backup you will see your Aperture library, if you view the folder, that is containing your Aperture Library, but you will not see the individual photos, if they are managed and hidden inside the Aperture Library package.
Only if your images are referenced, will they be visible in the Time Machine backup.
I have no idea what VAULT is, however I definitely need to get in to see a GENIUS & get them to help/show me, what I need to do so I can back up my Aperture photos.
Vaults are snapshots of the Aperture Library, and will contain the managed images, but not the referenced images. I prefer Time Machine backups to vaults, because they will incude my photolibraries automatically, when I backup my system.
Regards
Léonie

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