Hi Cathy and Dave, Cathy, you do have valid points. I do use Legacy's backup routine at times. Thank you, I do know how to do backups and restore them and, yes, it is important to know how to do them. I find the backup routine too slow for anything other than the occasional archive. My file is backed up to an external drive every 30 minutes. I am using Win8.1 as my OS and I have a Library set up with the Legacy file shown. I can do a back up in about four clicks of the mouse which takes about 5 - 10 seconds. It's generally faster than Legacy's automatic backup when doing a merge - and I have a copy. As David mentioned, it is a personal preference. I have been in computers long before the word PC was invented and an IT manager before that word was coined - I'm pleased to say that I have never had a serious loss of data even when a lightning strike once took out six servers. I am a bear on backups. Still, my heart skips a beat when my computer crashes. Legacy is amazing in that I have never had a serious issue with my file even when it has crashed.
Dave is still comfortable keeping his main file on DropBox, whereas I'm not as I don't have the control. For me, DropBox, or the like, is just another place for a backup and I can update/sync to my laptop. The manual part is easy. Bob -----Original Message----- From: David Cripps [mailto:cri...@netspace.net.au] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 7:19 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Dropbox / Legacy problem Hello Cathy, Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 1:59:18 PM, you wrote: > Bob, > > Don't you use the Legacy backup routine? No problem with overwriting > it if you set it to include the date and time in the name of the > backup zip file - which I think is the default these days. > I really don't understand why you'd even think about making code yourself. > Legacy reminds you to backup on exit if you haven't turned it off. > And any time while working you feel you need a backup, File - Backup does the > job. > A manual backup, unless you're either only backing up the fdb file or > backing up the whole data folder is far more complex. > Of course you also need to learn how to restore the backup file and > know that you can restore without overwriting your current family file > by giving the restored file a new name. I think Cathy you're slightly confused by our discussion direction, or perhaps the one I hijacked from Ron in the first place. Bob and I were discussing the merits of running our data files from the cloud or another non-cloud folder on your desktop & Mike suggested my thinking might be wrong. Bob doesn't run his data files from a cloud folder, a perfect user preference of course, but then of course he must manually copy his *.fdb and any document files over to his cloud folder so the syncing can occur. Now my argument is, I would agree with his method if only the whole process could be automated. The only way I could see that happening is for an external program to run as Legacy closes. Now in the old days we might have considered a batch file to run to do this as Legacy closes. For my money I just put my data file in the Cloud folder and run from there, but I could be convinced otherwise if it was achievable and non-manual. Yes Legacy does have the Backup facility and it's great and works well, but that isn't what we're planning to use here. Cheers Dave > > Cathy > -- David Cripps, Tasmania <cri...@netspace.net.au> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
