Ron, If you are proposing that when Legacy automatically saves your .fdb file, which it does in real time as you enter/delete data, then it never will.
You can, however, save your backup to another folder or drive without closing Legacy, either by using File>Backup Family File, or by putting the backup icon on the Task Bar and using that. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Ron Weeks Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:24 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Paul Brodsky Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Fwd: Data Storage Hi all and thank you for your replies, which I don't believe is off-topic! The reply that Paul states is pretty close to what I would like to do. I do have 2 hard drives in my computer, master and slave. I don't have the situation that if one or the other drives has a failure, the other one will take over, which is a great idea. Not sure how to do that though!! (no doubt off-topic) Obviously the Legacy program is in the 'C' drive, and I would like my data file that contain around 18,000 names to be saved onto both drives automatically. I can see now that Legacy cannot do that unfortunately but that would be a good feature to have. I think using Dropbox is possibly the way to go for me. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard for the programmers to initiate something that does that. Ron Weeks in Melbourne, Oz On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Paul Brodsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been following this thread with some interest and thought I would > chime in. So far the solutions that have been offered thus all related to > backup (mozy) and/or direct online access to files (dropbox, zumodrive). > Personally, I use all three of these solutions. > > However, the way the original question was worded suggest something else. > Without getting too technical (I'm in marketing anyhow, not IT) what he > was asking about is pretty much what you find in many network environments > which is two or more hard drives where one is primary and the others are > exact, real-time replicas of the first. That way, if any one hard drive > fails, the system just continues on using the other(s) until the one that > failed can be replaced. I'm not sure if this really is what Ron was > asking for but this is how you get that behavior (i.e. a "single" file > that is stored on two different physical drives on location and is kept in > constant sync). > > Ron, if in fact this is what you want, you want to be doing searches on > keywords like "RAID Disk Array", "Hard Drive Mirror", 'Disk Redundancy" > etc. However, if your non-technical or are looking for an inexpensive > solution, this is probably not the way to go. > > The best solutions have already been suggested - store your data wherever > you want (locally, dropbox, zumodrive, etc) and use an online backup > solution such as Mozy.com, carbonite.com or even Amazon.com's solution. > You can extend that even further using some of the batch job techniques > mentioned earlier to copy/sync data to another physical drive. > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Tim Rosenlof <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dropbox >> www.dropbox.com >> >> Mozy.. >> >> My preference is for zumodrive >> www.zumodrive.com/ >> >> Tim R. >> >> On 3/14/2011 10:46 AM, Reba Solomon wrote: >> > To All - My backups are taken care of automatically, as part of my free >> > online storage. It's a website with Cloud technology that >> > also synchronizes whatever I want, and shares whatever I want. I love >> > it! Reba >> > >> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Robert E. Carneal >> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> > wrote: >> > >> > Ron- another way to do it if you are willing to take the expense >> > and >> > time- >> > >> > Make two more copies, say every month or so, and send them to two >> > different relatives or friends for them to keep for you. I do that- >> > I >> > send them both out of town- one to another city in the same state >> > and >> > the 2nd to a friend several states away. >> > >> > Robert >> > >> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Ron Weeks <[email protected] >> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > > >> > > >> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> > > From: Ron Weeks <[email protected] >> > <mailto:[email protected]>> >> > > Date: Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:54 AM >> > > Subject: Data Storage >> > > To: [email protected] >> > <mailto:[email protected]> >> > > >> > > >> > > Hi, >> > > Is it possible to store the .fdb file, which is in >> > C:\Legacy\Data, to a 2nd hard drive automatically using the >> > Locations tab under Customize? >> > > I want to store my main data file into 2 separate hard drives in >> > the computer (c and f) so that I won't lose data in the event of a >> > c >> > drive failure. This needs to be done automatically without having >> > to >> > make a separate backup. >> > > Regards >> > > Ron Weeks >> > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
