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From: "Paul E. Lawrence" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] A Cautionary Tale - Backups
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:33:07 -0600
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Change the name wheb you do the back ups. Rather than use TMGs rotating
backup numbers I have my own scheme for naming backups which is

LYYMMDD.sqz where

L is the data set (my Lawrence data set)
YY is the year i.e. 02
MM is the month i.e. 01
DD is the day i.e. 02

So the backup made today would be L020102.sqz

If I make more than one back up on any one day I can add a letter after DD
to distinquish them.

This way I can keep as many backups as I desire and have backups going back
several months.

At 06:13 PM 1/2/2002 -0500, you wrote:

> > >The only safe solution is to maintain a series of dated backups and, with
> > >CDs now so cheap, I have no excuse not to do this.
>
>I use CD backups but have been unable to determine how to backup a file
>without over-writing one that is already on CD. Would like to just
>append a file and have a series of backups on one CD, but so far have
>not been able to do this. Can you advise if this is possible and if so,
>what steps to go thru?
>
>Thanks,
>pat
>
>
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Paul E. Lawrence


My Lawrence Genealogy web page has moved to the following URL:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lawrpaul/index.htm

Includes allied surnames of Bumpass, Byerly, Daughtrey, Ford (Faure),
Harper, Harr, Wilhite/Wilhoit. Also researching Burnett, Daniel, McMurry,
Hardy, Hill, Bondurant, Stansbury, Towne, Kincaid, and Rose, and others.

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