Good morning to Everybody,
I have recently updated to Fmp10 and an operating on a Windows Vista system. My file contains more than 153.000 records (about 187 MB). I had a couple of crash recently and the computer shut down and, when reopening the fmp file the usual "File not closed correctly…. Etc" check window appeared and the file was reopened without apparent problems, except that the last 50 or so records inserted were missing. First question: shoudn't they be there? To be safe it's better to close and reopen the file after inserting 10/20 records just to be sure? But at the last crash and reopening the recovery log said clearly… "The file should NOT be used for inserting new record, get the last backup and use this file only to import records there." And so I did. Now…I wouldn't mind recovering et al… the terror strikes me at the even remote possibility to loose all my 153.000 records. Luckily the backup copy (of some days before) was ok and I was able to import the last missing records and now it seems all is running smoothly. Yet I still lost some informations on part of the fields I recently added since last backup. I wonder if, from experienced user, there are some suggestion of a safe backup and maintenance protocol to be 100% safe that all is done to prevent data loss. Should I back up also an empty clone daily? Or is it enough a full backup copy? My computer has three internal disk, the main one, the D and E disk. Is it ok to back up on them? Or better on a fully external source (usb keys - Writable CD - external hard backup disk)? Moreover… when I have such backups… one week of them is enough to be safe (one copy for each day) or it is overkilling the problem? When I have say, last seven days of backup it is ok to delete old ones and keep always last seven days? When I have major changes on the file structure, better to work on a clone, and then reimport all the datas in it? Or is it ok to make those changes on the main file (providing a back up is made beforehand? Is it useful to save a compact copy of the file? What does it serves for? Is it ok to recover the file now and then even if there are no problems or is it useless? In the good ol' days of previous fmk version, an advice that circulated in the list was: "periodically, recover, save a compacted copy and recover again", just to overkill… Thanks for your experienced advice. MoneyMaker "The plain art of making money"
