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Posted by Jim on February 1, 2007, 1:04 pm
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> > I use the Quicken online backup. It's $9.00 per year and automatically
> > keeps multiple copies. I have it set to auto back up each night. If
> > disaster ever struck, this would be one less thing to worry about. I've
> > had to restore on more than one occasion, so the annual feel has been
> > well worth it for me.
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> > Caryl wrote:
> > > Thanks to everyone for all your comments.
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> > > Caryl
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> > >> Others have explained the need for multiple dated back ups. In addition to
> > >> that, All my data (including backups) gets deposited on my Data partition.
> > >> The back ups will get copied to different drives and once a week or so, I
> > >> use Acronis T.I. to image my Data partition, which is kept on it's own
> > >> partition (Acronis Images) and (about bi-monthly or monthly) gets burned
to
> > >> DVD.
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> > >> I've not often needed those back ups, but when I have, it's been worth
every
> > >> minute of effort. I also use T.I. to image my system drive about once a
> > >> week, which has been a lifesaver on multiple occasions. One can never have
> > >> enough back ups.
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> > >> James
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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- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -
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> I do multiple backups each night but it has to be manual,one to the
> external hard drive and one to the flash usb key drive.- Hide quoted text -
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PURPOSE: MANAGE QUICKEN BACKUP DIRECTORY FILES, i.e., MQBUDF.
I have written a script in Python that meets the following
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REQUIREMENTS:
1) Read in all file names from Quicken backup directory.
2) Produce a list of all Quicken backup file names with date.
3) Keep all:
a) Backup files created within the last 38 days.
b) Month-end backup files for last 18 months.
c) Year-end backup files for last 10 years.
NOTE: If MQBUDF finds no backups in the last 38 days then
MQBUDF will revise options file "options.jsc" to show
a keep date that will be equal to the most recent
backup
set.
4) Delete all other Quicken backup files (by request only).
5) ONLY Quicken backup files can be in the Quicken backup
directory.
6) Quicken backups must be created within +/- 7 days of each
month-end.
7) Quicken backup file names must be in the following format:
Name_yyyymmdd.ext.
8) "Python MQBUDF.PY" command-line options are as follows:
a) /? Outputs the command-line options syntax, i.e.,
"Python MQBUDF.py /?".
b) /D Dumps Quicken backup directory information into a
tab delimited text file "QDump.txt".
c) Drive:Path to Quicken backup files, e.g.,
G:QUICKENBACKUP.
9) Place backup file names that can be deleted into file
DQfiles.txt
for viewing. Requires a procedure when file DQfiles.txt gets
too
large that it will remove the first few records. Maximum file
size should be about 48K, i.e., about 1,000 records or 140
backup
days.
10) Have a file called options.jsc set the default path and/or
numeric
digits however, the command-line option will override this
default
path. Also, keep special backup file dates, that are not the
regular keep dates, in this options.jsc file, e.g., "Keep:
20050615".
Plus set AutoDelete to Yes, in order to automatically delete
the
non-keep backup files, e.g., AutoDelete: Yes. However, if
using
command-line arguments then turn off AutoDelete.
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If anyone is interested please contact me.
Thanks,
Jim
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