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From: "SorN Watkins" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Strange Backup behaviour TMG 5.05
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:57:44 -0800
References: <000401c2f835$e7ed29f0$0500a8c0@piii866>


What I think is happening is that newer back-ups do not resize a file when
over writing a previous file name.
I rotate through six back-ups and normally only back-up attachments every
sixth time. That back-up is decidedly larger. I found that a smaller
back-up when written over a larger one retains the larger file size.
Very strange.
Sherm
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris <>


> I don't think I have a major problem, so I'm not really asking for help,
> but I wonder if anyone else has noticed something like this...
>
> I have been doing lots of data entry, so TMG has gradually slowed down
> and I decided to Reindex. So, of course I thought I should do a backup
> first, and that backup was 5265 KB. I reindexed, did some more data
> entry, and 58 minutes later did another backup. This one was 9430 KB!
> Today I have opened TMG and done another backup straight away, just to
> check what is going on, and it is 5266 KB .....much more the size I was
> expecting. The only thing that I can think has happened is that I
> normally give a backup a unique name (eg 1 Apr 2003.sqz), and with the
> big one, I let it write over the top of an old backup. This made me
> think that instead of replacing the old backup, it actally appended to
> it, so I just tested the theory.
>
> Copy of an old backup 4129 KB
> New backup with same name (yes to overwrite) 9395 KB
> New backup with new name 5266 KB
>
> It certainly looks like it has appended, on Restore they appear to have
> the same number of individuals.
>
> This would really worry me if I was an ocassional back-upper, but I have
> backups going back to June last year, and always backup after data
> entry, so I know that I am reasonably data-secure.
>
> Has anyone else noticed anything like this?
>
> Chris
> Rockhampton
> Australia
>
> Chris Wright
>
> http://www.geocities.com/ozzie-chris
>
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