In addition to what Kraig says about it being better to use CD-R.
Your backup files need to have different names to put more than one on a CD (or any other media.)
It's a good idea to add the date to your backup filename. The best form to use is <filename yyyymmdd> as then they sort in order.
It's worth taking the time to rename when making the backup.
It's also worth taking the time to save them in a different folder to your working Legacy data - then you don't have to find them in amongst the other files. Legacy remembers where you keep your backups so you don't have to keep doing this
Cheers, Cathy At 05:38 1/02/2005, you wrote:
--- jan stitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I backed up my Legacy files to a CD-RW. Now I've > added more information and would like to back it up > over what I have saved on the CD-RW. When I use my > CD Creator and open my Legacy Data file, there are > choices of family.fdb, family.FG, family.TC, and > family.zip. Should I chose all of these or just > certain ones? When using a CD-RW do I need to do > anything to the Legacy file that is already on it > before saving the new one? > Thank you. > > Jan Stitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Jan, A suggestion for CD back-ups -- consider using CD-R instead of CD-RW. CD-R disks are more reliable for long-term storage, and they are more likely to avoid the problems that some CD-RW's have when read back in a different machine than the one they were written with. CD-R's are so inexpensive, and about 1/4 the cost of CD-RW, it's hardly worth the time and risk just to re-write on a used disk.
Another advantage is, you'll be able to save the previous backup CD-R's, so if bad stuff gets into your back-up data, you'll be able to go back to the second, third.. previous backup and find the last good data.
The family.zip file contains the .FDB, .FG, and .TC files in compressed form, in other words it's the same thing. I would just burn all of them on a CD -- unless your databases are HUGE, everything should fit on one CD. Note that pictures (& other multimedia files) aren't saved in the family.zip file. You probably want to back-up your photo directories, too.
Kraig
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