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From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] How Many Back-Ups?
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:30:20 -0500
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Lee,
You've obviously never had to redo the last 30 minutes of work. <G> It may
be boring the first time, but it's excruciatingly boring the second time.
Now if I am just doing research without data entry, I don't back up that
often, just when I am heavily entering data.

Teresa Ghee Elliott
--http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/
My genealogy blog
--http://generationsgoneby.wordpress.com/


-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:] On Behalf
Of Lee Hoffman
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:22 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] How Many Back-Ups?

Teresa Elliott wrote:
>I personally make a backup every time I do more than 30 minutes of work,
and
>after each day.

While I personally think that many backups is overkill (even with
low-cost disk space), I will also admit that I have backups going
back to 2006 for my main project. I also have some back to 1999 for
some specialized projects that I seldom use. For my main project,
the real reason that I have them back to 2006 is that I'm lazy and I
have plenty of disk space.

The above is on my hard drive. I won't say how far back my external
media backups go. But I expect that I can find some going back to
TMG v0. 9 (yes, that is before v1.0).

<g>

Lee Hoffman/KY
TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)


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