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CD Backup Dannie 12-28-2006
Posted by Dannie on December 28, 2006, 5:42 pm
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I have new PC and am backing up to CDRW. Software is Quicken New User
Edition 2006 R4 for which I have no CD.

Interested in heaing from someone with my Quicken software and if I can
backup to DVD RW? And if ok, can I use DVD for weeks of backup?
TIA
Dannie



Posted by Tivo'ed on December 30, 2006, 9:13 am
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Seems like a waste of CDs/DVDs and burn time. I used to do my daily's to
another
hard drive, now I've switched to a 32MB thumb drive. I have 3 years worth
of data,
and my files are about 13MB, so plenty of room left. Quicken automatically
keeps
weekly backups (5 latest versions), and I do monthly backups to a 1GB thumb
drive,
giving each one a unique name. I pretty much can keep as many versions as
I want.

>I have new PC and am backing up to CDRW. Software is Quicken New User
>Edition 2006 R4 for which I have no CD.
>
> Interested in heaing from someone with my Quicken software and if I can
> backup to DVD RW? And if ok, can I use DVD for weeks of backup?
> TIA
> Dannie
>
>



Posted by Dannie on December 30, 2006, 9:46 am
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Have you ever tried an actual recovery from your backup unit? Just curious
what the question might be since you say you have multiple backups on one
unit.

> Seems like a waste of CDs/DVDs and burn time. I used to do my daily's
> to another
> hard drive, now I've switched to a 32MB thumb drive. I have 3 years
> worth of data,
> and my files are about 13MB, so plenty of room left. Quicken
> automatically keeps
> weekly backups (5 latest versions), and I do monthly backups to a 1GB
> thumb drive,
> giving each one a unique name. I pretty much can keep as many versions
> as I want.
>
>>I have new PC and am backing up to CDRW. Software is Quicken New User
>>Edition 2006 R4 for which I have no CD.
>>
>> Interested in heaing from someone with my Quicken software and if I can
>> backup to DVD RW? And if ok, can I use DVD for weeks of backup?
>> TIA
>> Dannie
>>
>>
>
>



Posted by Tivo'ed on December 30, 2006, 4:44 pm
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> Have you ever tried an actual recovery from your backup unit? Just curious
> what the question might be since you say you have multiple backups on one
> unit.

Guess I forgot to mention, I put each backup into a new subdirectory with
the
date as the name, ie 2006-12-30. It helps if you create the subdirectory
before you start up Quicken as the "Browse" in the Backup window doesn't
allow you to create one.



> Have you ever tried an actual recovery from your backup unit? Just curious
> what the question might be since you say you have multiple backups on one
> unit.
>
>> Seems like a waste of CDs/DVDs and burn time. I used to do my daily's
>> to another
>> hard drive, now I've switched to a 32MB thumb drive. I have 3 years
>> worth of data,
>> and my files are about 13MB, so plenty of room left. Quicken
>> automatically keeps
>> weekly backups (5 latest versions), and I do monthly backups to a 1GB
>> thumb drive,
>> giving each one a unique name. I pretty much can keep as many versions
>> as I want.
>>
>>>I have new PC and am backing up to CDRW. Software is Quicken New User
>>>Edition 2006 R4 for which I have no CD.
>>>
>>> Interested in heaing from someone with my Quicken software and if I can
>>> backup to DVD RW? And if ok, can I use DVD for weeks of backup?
>>> TIA
>>> Dannie
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>



Posted by Jim Henry on December 31, 2006, 1:56 am
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Dannie wrote:
> I have new PC and am backing up to CDRW. Software is Quicken New User
> Edition 2006 R4 for which I have no CD.
>
> Interested in heaing from someone with my Quicken software and if I can
> backup to DVD RW? And if ok, can I use DVD for weeks of backup?
> TIA
> Dannie
>
>
I backup close to daily to a CD-R. It holds about one month. I use the
option to append the date to the backup files. When the disk fills, I
take it to the safety deposit at the bank, and start a new disk. It is
easy, and I have multiple backups at a location that is safe, and away
from my home. When the disks at the bank get to be too many, I bring
some home, and put them through the shredder.

I have restored from backups on several occasions, and I've even gone
back to prior disks. Luckily, I've never lost more than a small amount
of data when the program decided that it didn't like the downloaded data.

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