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From: Wild bill <>
Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Back ups
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:28:49 -0600
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Rita Offer wrote:

> A subscriber stated recently that he does backups on New Years and again
> on June 1st.
> This sounds great but I don't leave anything to chance I back up to my
> hard drive and also to disk whenever I put new information in. If its
> once a day, I backup, if its twice a day I backup
> I lost everything a few years ago when my tree was small == 4oo names
> and it was hell on wheels putting that stuff all back in, so now I back
> up everytime I enter information into my genealogy program. I put a new
> disk in my "gene" bag once a week, it hangs by my back door and is ready
> for me in case of a quick EXIT. I also store one at my sons once a
> week. I don't have a safety deposit box so I find this is just as good.
>
> Just my two cents worth.
> Rita

Lost data, been theere done that, so I backup as soon as I'm done entering
information for the day.
I also keep at least three different backups I put the month, day on the end
of the name, and when I have three backups , I delete and replace the oldest
with todays date. You never know if your backup is not corrupted beyond
recovery. So I can have two other recent copys and wouldnt have to reneter
much to be up to the original file. It's also a good idea to see if you can
restore from your backup every once in a while. Better safe then sorry.


--
Wild Bill
North Pole, Alaska + 15F right now.

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