Aperture 3 t vs Time Machine

We've had some bad experiences with restoring computers via TM so never use it nowadays. We always use CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) which is brilliant.

As for backing up, I dont understand why people who have Mac Pro's and lots of free discs manually backup via the Vault. Much easier to put the discs into a RAID 1 configuration so it's a real time backup solution otherwise it's too easy to fall into the trap of doing some work and not hitting the Vault (which stops you from working in Aperture). A few hours/days or a week goes by and you then risk losing work should drive failure occur.
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