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Backup including date Caryl 01-22-2007
Posted by Caryl on January 22, 2007, 5:16 pm
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 I use Quicken 2005 Deluxe. For years I have been backing up to a zip,
but I recently installed a second hard drive and had to get rid of my
zip drive. Rather than using an external zip drive, I am now backing up
to a hard drive that I use only for backups. To be safe I suppose I
should also backup to a CD.

I am only keeping one backup copy, writing over it each time I perform
the manual backup, which is almost every day. But now I am wondering if
I should be dating my backups and keeping several days worth. (I do
keep five versions of the automatic backup.)

What is the advantage of dating my backups and why would I need more
than one version?

Thanks for explaining this to me.

Caryl


Posted by Jeff on January 22, 2007, 5:29 pm
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 I always date mine and keep several backups. You can never have to many in
case one gets corrupted. Jeff


>I use Quicken 2005 Deluxe. For years I have been backing up to a zip,
> but I recently installed a second hard drive and had to get rid of my
> zip drive. Rather than using an external zip drive, I am now backing up
> to a hard drive that I use only for backups. To be safe I suppose I
> should also backup to a CD.
>
> I am only keeping one backup copy, writing over it each time I perform
> the manual backup, which is almost every day. But now I am wondering if
> I should be dating my backups and keeping several days worth. (I do
> keep five versions of the automatic backup.)
>
> What is the advantage of dating my backups and why would I need more
> than one version?
>
> Thanks for explaining this to me.
>
> Caryl
>



Posted by Fred Smith on January 22, 2007, 7:15 pm
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I'm in the school that says backups are way too much work. I've used Quicken for
over 15 years, and backup once a month, if that.

Only you can decide which backup frequency is worth the effort, but even if I
have to recreate everything since my last backup, I'll still be time ahead of
all I've saved not doing any.

--
Regards,
Fred


>I use Quicken 2005 Deluxe. For years I have been backing up to a zip,
> but I recently installed a second hard drive and had to get rid of my
> zip drive. Rather than using an external zip drive, I am now backing up
> to a hard drive that I use only for backups. To be safe I suppose I
> should also backup to a CD.
>
> I am only keeping one backup copy, writing over it each time I perform
> the manual backup, which is almost every day. But now I am wondering if
> I should be dating my backups and keeping several days worth. (I do
> keep five versions of the automatic backup.)
>
> What is the advantage of dating my backups and why would I need more
> than one version?
>
> Thanks for explaining this to me.
>
> Caryl
>



Posted by Jeff on January 22, 2007, 7:24 pm
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It takes 2 clicks, Backup and Save. Not a lot of work


> I'm in the school that says backups are way too much work. I've used
> Quicken for over 15 years, and backup once a month, if that.
>
> Only you can decide which backup frequency is worth the effort, but even
> if I have to recreate everything since my last backup, I'll still be time
> ahead of all I've saved not doing any.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Fred
>
>
>>I use Quicken 2005 Deluxe. For years I have been backing up to a zip,
>> but I recently installed a second hard drive and had to get rid of my
>> zip drive. Rather than using an external zip drive, I am now backing up
>> to a hard drive that I use only for backups. To be safe I suppose I
>> should also backup to a CD.
>>
>> I am only keeping one backup copy, writing over it each time I perform
>> the manual backup, which is almost every day. But now I am wondering if
>> I should be dating my backups and keeping several days worth. (I do
>> keep five versions of the automatic backup.)
>>
>> What is the advantage of dating my backups and why would I need more
>> than one version?
>>
>> Thanks for explaining this to me.
>>
>> Caryl
>>
>
>



Posted by James Colbert on January 23, 2007, 9:24 am
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> It takes 2 clicks, Backup and Save. Not a lot of work

You're right. Not nearly as much work as rebuidling a month's worth of data.


>
>
>> I'm in the school that says backups are way too much work. I've used
>> Quicken for over 15 years, and backup once a month, if that.
>>
>> Only you can decide which backup frequency is worth the effort, but even
>> if I have to recreate everything since my last backup, I'll still be time
>> ahead of all I've saved not doing any.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Fred
>>
>>
>>>I use Quicken 2005 Deluxe. For years I have been backing up to a zip,
>>> but I recently installed a second hard drive and had to get rid of my
>>> zip drive. Rather than using an external zip drive, I am now backing up
>>> to a hard drive that I use only for backups. To be safe I suppose I
>>> should also backup to a CD.
>>>
>>> I am only keeping one backup copy, writing over it each time I perform
>>> the manual backup, which is almost every day. But now I am wondering if
>>> I should be dating my backups and keeping several days worth. (I do
>>> keep five versions of the automatic backup.)
>>>
>>> What is the advantage of dating my backups and why would I need more
>>> than one version?
>>>
>>> Thanks for explaining this to me.
>>>
>>> Caryl
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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