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Back up Quicken files to DVD Ross Moody 09-14-2007
Posted by JimH on September 23, 2007, 12:47 pm
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 sharx35 wrote:

> There is absolutely NO need to have so many backups. I keep one in the house.

They don't cost anything. I buy disks by the spindle, and only when they
are on sale. At about $.05 each disk, it comes to $.60 per year for
backups. They don't take up much room. Since I already pay for the
safety deposit box, and it has plenty of room, there is no reason not to
keep multiple copies. I do throw them away once in a while.

When I had a catastrophic Quicken problem, the support people tried to
tell me that it was my data. When it failed with a backup from several
months earlier, they agreed that they data was OK, and Quicken had a
problem.

I recently had to load up my ancient MYM data to find a record of
something that happened many years ago. I don't keep paper records for
that long, but the MYM file is a minuscule spot on my hard drive.




Regards,
Jim

Posted by Oilcan on September 23, 2007, 11:14 pm
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 I used MYM prior to Quicken. Wasn't a bad piece of software.

> sharx35 wrote:
>
>> There is absolutely NO need to have so many backups. I keep one in the
>> house.
>
> They don't cost anything. I buy disks by the spindle, and only when they
> are on sale. At about $.05 each disk, it comes to $.60 per year for
> backups. They don't take up much room. Since I already pay for the safety
> deposit box, and it has plenty of room, there is no reason not to keep
> multiple copies. I do throw them away once in a while.
>
> When I had a catastrophic Quicken problem, the support people tried to
> tell me that it was my data. When it failed with a backup from several
> months earlier, they agreed that they data was OK, and Quicken had a
> problem.
>
> I recently had to load up my ancient MYM data to find a record of
> something that happened many years ago. I don't keep paper records for
> that long, but the MYM file is a minuscule spot on my hard drive.
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Jim


Posted by sharx35 on September 24, 2007, 3:05 am
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> sharx35 wrote:
>
>> There is absolutely NO need to have so many backups. I keep one in the house.
>
> They don't cost anything. I buy disks by the spindle, and only when they are
on sale. At about $.05
> each disk, it comes to $.60 per year for backups. They don't take up much
room. Since I already pay for
> the safety deposit box, and it has plenty of room, there is no reason not to
keep multiple copies. I do
> throw them away once in a while.
>
> When I had a catastrophic Quicken problem, the support people tried to tell me
that it was my data.
> When it failed with a backup from several months earlier, they agreed that
they data was OK, and
> Quicken had a problem.
>
> I recently had to load up my ancient MYM data to find a record of something
that happened many years
> ago. I don't keep paper records for that long, but the MYM file is a minuscule
spot on my hard drive.
>

An entry in MYM or Quicken is not legal proof of anything. Unless, for example,
you have the actual
transaction slip of a share buy or sell, you may be hooped.

>
>
>
> Regards,
> Jim



Posted by MrTom on September 21, 2007, 11:47 am
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Ross Moody wrote:
>> Ross,
>>
>> Although I have Quicken 2001 Deluxe I would guess that the procedure I use
>> to backup to DVD would work with 2005. I just close Quicken and then copy
>> to a DVD the entire folder in which my Quicken data resides.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> Ross Moody wrote:
>>> Anyone know how to back up quicken data files to either DVD+RW or DVD-RW
>>> in 2005 version? It works using a CD-RW and checking the box (Use
>>> Windows CD Writing Wizard). However I want to start using a data DVD.
>>> My on board disk burning software that came with computer is Sonic RECORD
>>> NOW ver7.21. It is not user friendly to say the least. If fumble around
>>> using Sonic can I burn a QDATA file from my HD but Which is the latest?
>>> etc The help page 25 of the 2005 User Guide that I DL seems to be
>>> inaccurate.
>>> Thanks, Ross
> Thanks for the reply. I'll give it a go. I guess you just pick the most
> recent back-up date and use it to restore from say your laptop to desktop or
> vice versa?
> Ross
>
>
Ross,

My Quicken related data is in its own folder that I named, not the one
Quicken would chose by default. This folder contains more than one
Quicken dataset, as well as the Quicken BACKUP folder. Other personal
data is in other folders. Both the Quicken folder and the other
personal folders are subfolders of a single larger folder. I simply
backup the single larger folder to DVD. Of course, I have several DVD's
I cycle through.

To restore a Quicken dataset I would look at the file dates on the DVD
and chose one dataset (that one could even be in the BACKUP folder), say
Qdata, and copy from DVD to hard drive all files beginning with Qdata
(Qdata.QEL, Qdata.QDF, etc.), and make sure the restored files are not
readonly. I do not use Quicken's built-in Restore function.

The restored files do not have to go back to their original folder and
probably should not until you check that the restored files work ok.

Tom

Posted by Ross Moody on September 21, 2007, 1:38 pm
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> Ross Moody wrote:
>>> Ross,
>>>
>>> Although I have Quicken 2001 Deluxe I would guess that the procedure I
>>> use to backup to DVD would work with 2005. I just close Quicken and
>>> then copy to a DVD the entire folder in which my Quicken data resides.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> Ross Moody wrote:
>>>> Anyone know how to back up quicken data files to either DVD+RW or
>>>> DVD-RW in 2005 version? It works using a CD-RW and checking the box
>>>> (Use Windows CD Writing Wizard). However I want to start using a data
>>>> DVD. My on board disk burning software that came with computer is Sonic
>>>> RECORD NOW ver7.21. It is not user friendly to say the least. If fumble
>>>> around using Sonic can I burn a QDATA file from my HD but Which is the
>>>> latest? etc The help page 25 of the 2005 User Guide that I DL seems to
>>>> be inaccurate.
>>>> Thanks, Ross
>> Thanks for the reply. I'll give it a go. I guess you just pick the most
>> recent back-up date and use it to restore from say your laptop to desktop
>> or vice versa?
>> Ross
> Ross,
>
> My Quicken related data is in its own folder that I named, not the one
> Quicken would chose by default. This folder contains more than one
> Quicken dataset, as well as the Quicken BACKUP folder. Other personal
> data is in other folders. Both the Quicken folder and the other personal
> folders are subfolders of a single larger folder. I simply backup the
> single larger folder to DVD. Of course, I have several DVD's I cycle
> through.
>
> To restore a Quicken dataset I would look at the file dates on the DVD and
> chose one dataset (that one could even be in the BACKUP folder), say
> Qdata, and copy from DVD to hard drive all files beginning with Qdata
> (Qdata.QEL, Qdata.QDF, etc.), and make sure the restored files are not
> readonly. I do not use Quicken's built-in Restore function.
>
> The restored files do not have to go back to their original folder and
> probably should not until you check that the restored files work ok.
>
> Tom

Thanks again.
Ross



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