Backup

[Bob56 0]

Being a very new user of TMG it appears that the only backup can be saved to floppy disc and not CD-R/RW? Is this the case or have I missed some important point when attempting to backup. I am currently researching five families so to back up to CD-R/RW would be good. Thanks in anticipation.

Edited May 9, 2006 by Bob56

[Roy_Delos_Reyes 0]

Best way is to backup to your hard drive and then burn that backup file to a CD.

[Terry Reigel 0]

You can change the backup destination under File > Preferences > Current Project Options > Adanced. By default it's the A:\ drive.

 

Whether you can backup directly to a CD depends on the software you have installed to burn CDs - the "normal" Windows installation cannot do that.

 

But in any case, I agree with Bob that the best plan is to backup to your hard drive, then occasionally copy that to a CD. In fact, I put a button on my custom toolbar to do a "one-click" backup to my hard drive. I use it whenever I feel I'd done more dat entry than I'd care to do over. It then gets backed up off the machine from there.

[Pierce.Reid 0]

You can change the backup destination under File  > Preferences > Current Project Options > Adanced. By default it's the A:\ drive.

 

Whether you can backup directly to a CD depends on the software you have installed to burn CDs - the "normal" Windows installation cannot do that.

 

But in any case, I agree with Bob that the best plan is to backup to your hard drive, then occasionally copy that to a CD. In fact, I put a button on my custom toolbar to do a "one-click" backup to my hard drive. I use it whenever I feel I'd done more dat entry than I'd care to do over. It then gets backed up off the machine from there.

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It might also be useful to copy the backup file to another computer, maybe in a different part of town/country. If that computer has TMG, load it up to ensure the backup file is ok. You can use a USB drive, CD, email, home network or whatever you have.

 

If you computer is only a couple of years old, it should have enough disk space to handle many backups. Give each one a name that allows them to be name sorted in date sequence. Then if you accidentally damage part of your data (e.g. deleting a person), you will likely be able to find a backup taken before the damage was done.

 

Pierce

[Paul Lawrence 0]

Give each one a name that allows them to be name sorted in date sequence. Then if you accidentally damage part of your data (e.g. deleting a person), you will likely be able to find a backup taken before the damage was done.

 

Pierce

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TMG's backup wizard does that for you, it includes date and time in the backup name...