Bill, What your backup contains depends on the settings which you make. When asked to backup there are a number of boxes which allow you to select what to back up, only the ones which you check will be backed up. If you want your images backed up then you also need to ensure that option is also checked.
What is not backed up are your screen settings etc. eg colour scheme, to back these up you need to save them and save the URLs. Details are given in the Help files. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: William (Bill) R. Linhart Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] What is your strategy for PRUNING your backup zip files? First Concern: May I assume that the zip sets created by Legacy 7.5 (+latest update) include everything I need to recover all my research? I am assuming this is the case based on my reading. Just checking in to hear your experience with backup and recovery. I have yet to attempt recovery of Legacy files. Second Concern: By default, I believe, Legacy is creating a set of backup-zips with a time stamp each time I elect to backup on EXIT. At least that is what seems to be happening on my Legacy installation. Let me assume this is the Legacy default setting. I see that I can shut off the time-stamp-file-name in the options but I like the concept of having multiple recovery files. I now have 30 sets (and growing) of data-zips and multimedia-zips. This will continue to grow unless I have a pruning strategy. I am currently backing up all 30 sets to the cloud and more as they are created until I sort this out. What is your backup pruning strategy for Legacy zips? How many backup sets do you keep so you can go back in time? Is there a setting in Legacy to keep only 7 backups automatically, similar to iTunes podcast management? Thanks ... Bill 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
