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Posted by mike on June 21, 2006, 8:13 pm
Please log in for more thread options Thank you for your response. I modified your suggestion a bit and would
like to insure that I am on safe ground.
I made a Quicken Backup folder in My documents on the C drive.
I did a Quicken Backup into this new folder.
I made a new Quicken Backup folder on the CD-RW.
Using Windows Explorer I then copied the backup files from My Documents
to the new folder on the CD-RW. This seemed to work OK.
Because I sometimes must backup Quicken several times a day I prefer to
use a few CD-RWs and keep cycling them by overlaying the data on the
oldest CD-RW.
Am I on solid ground with this method?
Once I am sure I have a working Backup strategy I will then move on to
the Recover process.
Malke wrote:
> mike wrote:
>
> > I am using Quicken 2004R3 and Windows Xp Media Home Edition 5.1 SP 2.
> > This is a new computer. On my old computer I used to backup my Quicken
> > date to Zip drives. The new computer does not have Zip drives but does
> > have CD RW and DVD RW capability.
> >
> > Today I tried to backup the Quicken files to a CD RW. I put the CD RW
> > into the CD drive and did a 'quick' format of the CD. I then went to
> > Quicken and ran a backup onto the CD. I got a message from Quicken
> > saying 'backup completed successfully.' I then went to Windows
> > Explorer to look at the contents of the CD and it did not contain any
> > data.
> >
> > I then went to Quicken . Help > Backup. I found the following
> > statement which I do not understand: " Before you can back up to a
> > CD-R or a CD-RW you must configure your CD-RW drive to work like an
> > alternate hard disk drive.
> >
> > Can anyone shed some light on what this is asking me to do?
> > How to do it?
> > What are the ramifications of doing it?
>
> The message is saying that you need to use packet-writing software like
> InCD or Direct CD. I don't recommend doing this because these backups
> should be completely transferrable. If you try to transfer the data to
> another computer that doesn't have the same packet-writing software
> installed (or doesn't have a UDF reader), the CD-RW you carefully made
> will look blank.
>
> It is better to just use a CD-R. Make a folder for your Quicken backups
> in My Documents and set that as the default backup location. This way
> you can back up your whole My Documents folder at one time, including
> the Quicken backup.
>
> Malke
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