Angus,
Legacy won't necessarily go straight to the folder with your backup zips
in it, particularly if your backup location is an external drive. You
may need to navigate to it when using File > Restore File and you do
have to choose which backup zip you want to restore. You can restore to
a different filename and you should practice this. Call it test or
something. You can provide the new filename at different stages in the
restore process. Legacy will warn you if there is a file of the same
name in the folder you are restoring to and you can rename at that
stage. If you're not confident using a backup, it doesn't give you the
same peace of mind. Once you've seen it restored and then with the
restored file open use File > Delete File.
It's far better to use the backup zip for your data than copy and paste
your Legacy family file with all its secondary files. The backup zips
them all together and adds a date and time to the filename of the zip.
Also far easier than copying and pasting files or dragging and dropping.
You can use the media backup as well but I keep my Legacy Media in
Dropbox and backup my Dropbox folders to external drives regularly so I
have a copy in the cloud and locally on external drives if my computer
fails. Media doesn't need to be backed up so often.
Cathy
Bob Austen <mailto:[email protected]>
Thursday, 2 November 2023 10:37
The computer won't necessarily 'find' your backup file - depending on
how you 'back it up".
If you do 'backup' when Legacy prompts you (or File/Backup) it will
backup to your computer. Then you can Restore it by going to File/Restore.
I do a quick backup to my computer whenever I do something a little
'risky' like a big merge. To do that I go to the file location and do
a 'copy' and then 'paste' of the Family File. (you get a 'filename -
copy.fdb" file with date and time stamp) I have a 1.5GB file and that
takes me _30 seconds_. If I do mess up my main file then I can delete
it and rename my copy so I can continue from the point before I
screwed up!
I also use this method to do a quick backup to a USB drive.
This doesn't backup the media but you could take the same approach
there. However I take a little differently for the media as I have
about 12GB and copy/paste takes quite a while.
I keep periodic backups of my Family file (using the copy/paste
method) to the main drive of my computer, a second backup to a second
hard drive on my computer, another to a flash drive, another to
Dropbox. I also have a backup drive connected to my computer.
Overly cautious, maybe, but I have been in IT for over 40 years and
have never had a catastrophic data loss.
Bob
Angus MacLean <mailto:[email protected]>
Thursday, 2 November 2023 07:21
What Jenny Benson stated about how to Backup your Legacy File is
accurate to a point but will the program find your file in the new
location. I am having major difficulty copying the file to another
location (e.g. external backup) in the event my computer crashes. I
would be grateful to learn the proper method.
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