Bill, In general, if I didn't add any images during a session, then I just back up the data upon exit; if I did add images, then I back up data and multi-media. Then I keep the last couple of "full" (data and multi-media) backups. I back up to an external hard drive, so I have plenty of space, SO I don't have a hard and fast rule about deleting backups. When I do take a look, I will delete the old "partial" (data only) backups --- the ones before my latest "full" backup. And I delete many of the recent "full" backups (keeping latest two, as I said). Probably because I am a packrat, I keep some of the older "full" backups, too... like one per year? Additionally, "deleting" means sending it to the Recycle Bin, so until I clean the files out of there, they are still available. (tho still taking up space, too) I don't remember ever having to pull something back from the Recycle Bin, tho. --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams
________________________________ From:William (Bill) R. Linhart <[email protected]> To:[email protected] Sent: Sun, May 20, 2012 9:51:14 AM 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
