Many contributors to this forum stress the importance of multiple backups but I wonder whether the advice is logical.
It goes without saying that any backup will NOT include data added to the primary file since it was backed up ~ fresh backups are obviously more useful if it is necessary to restore a backup (less recent data to reinsert).
A point less regularly stressed is that backups themselves should be opened ~ to
prove that they are good to go.
As some here may recall, I have found holding 7 backups named: *** 1 - Monday, *** 2 - Tuesday, .... , *** 7 - Sunday all stored in one folder on a different drive is a strategy that has worked perfectly for me. On exit from the program
I point to *** # - Today (whatever that is) and overwrite that backup ~ and I do this EVERY time I exit Money.
Quite separately I save a copy of my data file at the end of every financial year (and then slightly modify it not to automatically add regular transactions).
My experience of Money is that the easiest way to corrupt the data file is to give the program insufficient time to complete whatever it was trying to do. Having learned that, it is a long time since I have had to resort to a backup ~ and when I did I was
able to catch up quickly.
Is there an even better way?
Teabag
PS I still use Money 2000 International English - which did not include the multiple backup option.
