I never do that. I take a backup daily of my files and they go on a NAS drive. I keep a dummy copy for show and tells, but never connect them to the main files, So no on the fly updates.
I also do not understand how 700K names can result in 1 GB. I have less than 100K folks and run at well over 7GB of data. Something is skewey Ian On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 2:17 PM Loren L. Johns via LegacyUserGroup < legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> wrote: > I have spent thousands of hours (not sure I would want to know exactly how > many!) working on my database. I now have over 713,000 individuals in my > database, which is over 1GB in size. Frankly, I don't want to lose all that > time and work! So I use a cloud backup service (BackBlaze) as a backup. > Also, every time I make a change in my database, I compact the file and > then back it up to a flash drive and also an external hard drive, using > Allway Sync. It is very easy to use. I just tell it to compare the relevant > folders on my SSD drive and my other drive and copy the files with the most > recent dates to the other drive. Just to be safe, I also do the same with > my Google Drive File Stream, so that my most recent Legacy database is > always in the cloud in two different forms, on my local SSD "hard" drive, > and also on two separate external drives, one hard drive and one flash > drive. > > I have a second laptop that I occasionally use. Whenever I want to > transfer my database to the other laptop, I use Allway Sync to do it. It > usually takes a minute or two to do the transfer. I already have the most > recent form of the database on one of my backup drives, so I just attach > one of those to the secondary computer, run Allway Sync, and then I am up > and ready to go. > > Peace, > Loren Johns > Guatemala City, Guatemala > ------------------------------ > "I will accept no bull from your house" (Ps. 50:9, RSV). > > > On Thursday, March 12, 2020, 01:57:52 PM EDT, Gary Crull < > treeclimber1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > I'm taking a little survey if you'll participate. > > What app do you use to 'sync' Legacy between your MAIN computer and a > SECONDARY computer? > > What do you feel is the advantage of your choice vs another app? > > Gary > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > -- ICMac Sales: Hobby consultant (1986r.) Office hours: 10:00 Am - 5:00 PM most days Macaulay Genealogy Family Matters Ian Macaulay of Carp, Ontario
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