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Backup copies are not rolling over John Keith 10-20-2007
Posted by John Keith on October 20, 2007, 12:17 pm
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Thankfully I've not needed to make use of backup copies of my Quicken
data. Recently I finally abandoned my backups on floppies and am
currently backing up to my hard disk (as well as periodically burning
DVD backups of my hard disk.)

But in looking at my backups on the hard disk I see that the files are
not rolling over per the scheme as described by Quicken. That is the
most recent backup prior to the current backup should be renamed to
<file1> and then <filen>, where n is the maximum number of backups
specified in the options setting is deleted. Rather, only teh most
current backup is saved in teh backup directory.

Any ideas on what is preventing the proper behaviour?

I'm using Q2002 Basic, WInXP and I have 4 different files I'm backing
up (all 4 behave the same way.)


John Keith
kd0gd@juno.com

Posted by John Pollard on October 20, 2007, 1:13 pm
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John Keith wrote:
> Thankfully I've not needed to make use of backup copies of my
> Quicken
> data. Recently I finally abandoned my backups on floppies and
> am
> currently backing up to my hard disk (as well as periodically
> burning
> DVD backups of my hard disk.)
>
> But in looking at my backups on the hard disk I see that the
> files are
> not rolling over per the scheme as described by Quicken. That
> is the
> most recent backup prior to the current backup should be
> renamed to
> <file1> and then <filen>, where n is the maximum number of
> backups
> specified in the options setting is deleted. Rather, only teh
> most
> current backup is saved in teh backup directory.

The "scheme" you are referring to pertains only to the backups
that Quicken makes automatically every 7 days or so; it has
nothing to do with the backups that you initiate.

> Any ideas on what is preventing the proper behaviour?
>
> I'm using Q2002 Basic, WInXP and I have 4 different files I'm
> backing
> up (all 4 behave the same way.)
>
>
> John Keith
> kd0gd@juno.com

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John Pollard
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Posted by John Keith on October 20, 2007, 8:59 pm
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wrote:

>The "scheme" you are referring to pertains only to the backups
>that Quicken makes automatically every 7 days or so; it has
>nothing to do with the backups that you initiate.

John,

Thank you for clarifying that significant point. I completely missed
that point in the online help which clearly says every 7 days and the
example even has dates separated by 7 days. Another example of RTFM!


John Keith
kd0gd@juno.com

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