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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Divided datasets
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 10:29:01 -0400
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Mary, how big is your data set? My 10,000 person data set backups to
one floppy. I have no internal exhibits.

I backup to a folder in MyDocuments called Backups whenever I do a
significant amount of adding and revising to my data set. Then every
week or two I copy my latest backup to a floppy.

The TMG backup and Windows copy routine will ask you for a second floppy
when you fill up the first one. You do have to mark each floppy so you
know which is which when you restore.

Once you have set the path in the File Backup, (in Ver 4) TMG remembers
it and you don't have to enter each time unless you want to change it.

bob gillis

Daniel Davis wrote:
>
> I need to insert here that I have realized already the problem developing
> with floppies, and my son has just installed a CD-RW drive. I don't have
> the software for it yet, he says it's in the mail! The CD holds 700MB. So
> how does this affect the decision? In the meantime, an error message came
> up when I tried to backup to the floppy, error 15, which under "help"
> means not enough room for the file on the backup media. So we put a file
> (I called it tmg backup) on the hard drive(he talked me through the
> procedure ) and that is where I'm currently putting my backups. (typing in
> 'c:\tmg backup\my project__1.sqz' on the second line of that backup
> screen) I would have no clue how to make a backup to more than one floppy.
>
> Perhaps, as it seems to me, the best decision would be to keep the
> dataset intact as is, and get the CD backup going, and if a problem does
> develop, splitting the dataset will allways be an option in the future? I
> thought maybe the decision needed to be made now.
>
> Can TMG pull information from microsoft word somehow? If that is a stupid
> question, just hit delete. <g>
>
> Mary
>
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