Thanks, John. Tomorrow I will look at Carbonite and take your advice. Thanks again. Elizabeth
On 8 December 2013 20:46, John B. Lisle <[email protected]> wrote: > Elizabeth, et al, > > Backup twice every day. > > Carbonite is a cloud service that is continually backing up when you are > connected to the internet. I like it because if I am travelling or visiting > friends with my PC, PC is getting backed up. I do not even have to think > about it. > > I also have a local hard drive backup with a hard drive called "Click > Free". It also just operates in the background, but only when I am home. > This gives me a backup that I can access to restore quickly. The Carbonite > backup might take a while, over the internet, to restore large amounts of > files. > > Today, there are a lot of options to assure you do not lose your work. > > john. > > At 03:30 PM 12/8/2013, Elizabeth Hatchell wrote: > > Well, I only use Dropbox to share photos with friends and family and > haven't come across Carbonite but I think I'll have a look at it. I have > a spare hard-drive but am not very good about backing up to it as I can > never find what I want as it has a funny file structure. I just hope if > my computer dies I can work it out! Reminder - back up TODAY. > > > On 8 December 2013 20:25, John B. Lisle <[email protected]> wrote: > Elizabeth, > > That has to be your choice, depending on the dropbox space you have > available. > > Personally, I use Carbonite for my cloud backup as then I can structure my > files where ever I choose to put them. I save dropbox space for sharing > data with colleagues. > > john. > > > At 01:51 PM 12/8/2013, Elizabeth Hatchell wrote: > > Thanks, John, will do. Just re-opened Legacy having moved all to > Dropbox and it's fine. I have a large number of Census pages, baptism > records, birth, marriage and death certificates etc. Would you suggest > moving all the 'media' also to Dropbox? > > > On 8 December 2013 18:42, John B. Lisle <[email protected]> wrote: > Elizabeth, et al, > The .fdb file is your database. The others with the same name but > different extensions are used internally for other functions. If you lose > them the data can be re-generated, but best to keep them. If you are moving > your family file to another folder, keep all of them together. > john. > At 01:32 PM 12/8/2013, Elizabeth Hatchell wrote: > > I have just tried to do that by changing the setting as you suggest and > renaming the open Legacy file Hatchell Master Dec2013 but I now find I have > 8 copies of that file, all with slightly different suffixes and lots of > different dates going back to 22/02/2012. The first one is obviously the > file I've just closed but the others are FG files, NC files, TC files > etc. Without listing them all, oone is labelled Hatchell Master > Dec2013~Rc3.Rc3. > Does this sound OK to you? > > On 8 December 2013 18:13, Cheryl Rothwell <[email protected] > > wrote: > I told Legacy where to find it in my settings. > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Elizabeth Hatchell > <[email protected]> > wrote: > Cheryl - does Legacy then find the file in Dropbox when you open > it? I'm not ot totally sure where the default location of the > working family file is held normally in Legacy* > On 8 December 2013 15:02, Cheryl Rothwell <[email protected] > > wrote: > I backup to the computer (which is then included in my other backup > system) but the working file is in Dropbox. > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Elizabeth Hatchell <[email protected]> > wrote: > Graham - if you keep your working file on Dropbox, is it quite simple to > do? Do you save a backup there every time youu close Legacy or is > your whole file system on Dropbox? šÂ I use Dropbox to share > files and photos with friends but not as a regular backup facility. > Do you recommend this? > > On 8 December 2013 08:37, Graham Love < [email protected]> > wrote: I keep my working file there. 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