Unless you are clicking on a directory, not just a file, you are not
getting a complete backup. To check it, you should try restoring from
your backup to see if everything is there.
To back up the ebase system, you need to copy ALL the files in the
ebase directory (I think there are 29 of them). Ileen, that's why you
are getting strange messages when you try to open the backup. All the
files are important. They each have some piece of the data - payments
in one, contacts in another, names in another, etc. You don't need
FileMaker, but you do need all the ebase files.
>I don't know if this is the correct answer but I will tell you how I do a
>back up.
>I close FM and Excel then go to Windows Explorer and Right click on my main
>Ebase file. You will get a pop up screen that asks what you want to do, I
>zip up the
>file and send it to the Zip drive. Then, if you need to restore, just
>replace the file on
>your hard drive with the file on your zip drive.
>
>Like I said, I don't know if it is the correct way to do it but it works!
>
>Carol Buck
>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Ileen Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: TechRocks Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 2:10 PM
>Subject: [support] Opening Backup
>
>
>Thanks for all the help from various folks. This is a slow process. I
>have now successfully entered 1400+ names to our database. Before I begin
>to deal with payments and membership expire dates I need some help with the
>backup.
>
>I am using a Zip drive for backup (newly purchased and not very familiar
>with). I have been able to save a copy of ebase using the SAVE AS command
>to the zip drive. Now I am trying to open the zipped backup to make sure I
>have saved the data. Reopening it is giving me a problem.
>
>I have tried several ways of saving the file and opening up the backed up
>file. I open up Filemaker Pro 5 and then navigate to the saved backup on
>the zip. When I do that, I get the following error message from Filemaker
>Pro (after having been asked to enter my password) -- "set up" could not be
>found and is required to complete this operation.
>
>What is "set up"? Or what is going on here. The last time I tried it,
>behind the window to navigate to the proper file was a largely blank screen
>with Letter 1 at the top and the name and address of the first person in
>the database.
>
>It appears I do have a backup but obviously I need to know how to open it
>incase I need to use it.
>
>Ileen Weber
>Membership Chair
>Pilchuck Audubon Society
>
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