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From: "Jim Winfrey" <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Backup and using Two Computers
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 21:45:52 -0500
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Claire,

Have you got this backwards? I have backed up several times with the
database open that I was backing up. The important thing is that it is a
two step process. First, you have to select the database to backup and
provide the path to it, then you have tell GB where you want and what the
backup name is.

Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Claire Quortrup" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Backup and using Two Computers


| Your methods for a back-up should work ok. But I discovered if you want to
| use GB's backup you have to close the database you want to back-up and it
| seems to work best if you open another database like the Sample. Then do
| your backup on the database you closed. If you try to backup the database
| you have open the program will give you an error message and close down.
|
| Claire
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Cheri Casper" <>
| To: <>
| Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 6:16 PM
| Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Backup and using Two Computers
|
|
| > I have had problems with trying to backup from within GB; it generates a
| > Windows error message. I have just been going through WE, finding the
| > database, right clicking, and making a .zip file using WinZip. Does
| anyone
| > see any problem with that method? CheriC
| >
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: Debbie Schnell Woolard [mailto:]
| > Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 4:12 PM
| > To:
| > Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Backup and using Two Computers
| >
| >
| > On Sunday, 02-03-2003 at 05:53 PM -0800, Joanna Smith Dunn said:
| > **********Beginning of Quoted Message**********
| > >Thanks, Debbie,
| > >When you back up to a disk, do you rename the file with a date to
create
| a
| > >new file or overwrite the old one?
| > >
| > >When you restore, will this program let you overwrite the file or do
you
| > use
| > >a new file each time?
| > **********End of Quoted Message**********
| >
| > While the database in question is open, I select File > Backup
| > It asks what file you want to backup. On next screen you select where
you
| > want the backup to go, and what name you want. I backup to my hard
drive
| > in a folder in My Documents\Genbox\Backups
| > The naming system I use is based on the date, with the year first, then
| > month, they day (ex. 20030302.zip)
| > So if I have more than one backup for a day, the next backup would be
| named:
| > 20030302a
| > 20030302b etc.
| >
| > At the end of the day, I copy these backups to a zip disk. That is what
I
| > use to transfer to my laptop.
| >
| > On the laptop I close out any open database. Then I do a File > Restore
| > It asks what File do I want to restore. I select the latest zipped file
| on
| > my zip drive.
| > It then asks where do I want this file to go. I go to where my database
| is
| > located at. When you get to this screen, make sure to change the "Files
| of
| > Type:" drop down menu from "show folders only" to the Genbox database
| > selection, so you know you are getting the right location (I boo-boo'd
| once
| > and put my database in the wrong location). When you've pressed
"Restore"
| > it will ask you if you want to overwrite the file. I select yes.
| >
| > It's been very easy to keep my database and laptop in sync with each
| > other. When I can afford to get a new laptop, we are going network.
<g>
| >
| >
| >
| > -- Debbie Schnell Woolard
| > --
| > --
| >
| >
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