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Posted by avraham on March 10, 2007, 5:40 pm
Please log in for more thread options Thanks for the very clear explanation of the backup scheme.
Avraham
R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, Avraham.
>
> We rehash this subject of backups at least a couple of times a year
> here, but new users arrive all the time, so I guess it's time to do it
> again. The settings in Edit | Preferences | Quicken program are
> confusing to many users (but I'll bet the Quicken programmers think that
> they are clear as a bell).
>
> Quicken provides for 3 kinds of backup (my terminology; you won't find
> these in Quicken's Help):
>
> 1. Automatic backups.
> 2. Reminded backups.
> 3. Manual backups.
>
> 1. Automatic backups happen, well, automatically, every 7 days from the
> time you last installed Quicken. With no prompting or notice, a week
> after you install Q, it backs up all your data fileset (QDATA.QDF and
> related QDATA.* files) into C:QuickenWBACKUP. Note that this BACKUP
> folder is created automatically as a subfolder in your main Quicken
> folder. The first week, your backup files are QDATA1.QDF, QDATA1.QEL,
> etc. A week later, Q renames all those QDATA1 files to QDATA2, then it
> backs up the latest set as a new QDATA1. The next week, QDATA2 becomes
> QDATA3, QDATA1 becomes QDATA2, and a new QDATA1 gets created. This goes
> on each week until there are the number of backup sets you've specified
> in Edit | Preferences; the default is 5. The next week, the oldest set
> (QDATA5) gets deleted, the newer sets' names get incremented by 1 and a
> new QDATA1 set is created. Thus, there should always (after Q has been
> running for 5 weeks) be 5 sets of backup files, named QDATA1-QDATA5, and
> dated a week apart.
>
> 2. Each time you exit Q, it checks to see if you have recently made a
> manual backup - in addition to the Automatic backups. How recently?
> That depends on the OTHER setting in Edit | Preferences. The default is
> 3, as I recall, but you can set it for any number from 0 to 99. At the
> default setting, Q will remind you every 3rd time you exit the program -
> unless you've made a more-recent manual backup.
>
> 3. YOU decide when to make manual backups, and YOU decide where to put
> them. It's a good idea to put them into a different folder, a better
> idea to put them onto a different hard drive, and the best idea to put
> them onto removable media (floppy, CD, thumb drive, etc.) so that they
> can be safely stored separately from your computer in case of fire,
> theft or other disaster.
>
> In Edit | Preferences | Quicken Program | Backup, there are two boxes
> which refer to two DIFFERENT kinds of backups. The first one sets how
> often you want to be reminded to do the Reminded backup (#2 above). The
> second box sets how many weekly backups Q should keep in the
> QuickenWBACKUPS folder (#1 above). Leave the "Warn..." check box
> clear or you will have to confirm each time that, yes, you really do
> want the new backup to replace the old, outdated version.
>
>> BTW I renamed the backup files and location.
>
> It's not easy (or wise?) to change the location for the automatic
> backups (#1), but locations for #2 and #3 are entirely up to you.
>
> Note that, in addition to all these backups, the current,
> up-to-the-minute working version of your data file is, by default, right
> there in your QuickenW folder.
>
> RC
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