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From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Backup strategy question
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 08:36:21 -0500
In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20060901003011.04d1b4f8@acm.org>


Lee,
Are you sure you don't have EXTERNAL PICTURES selected under Project Data
files? My last backup was 7,875 KB without external images. I selected
external Pictures and it is now 283,367 KB and instead of the usual about 30
seconds to run, it took over 5 minutes to run. That's how I first realized
that a change had been made, but I couldn't tell you which version it was
that made the change.

I wouldn't want to wait that long for a backup when I tend to do several a
day when I am doing a lot of data entry like I was yesterday.

Teresa Ghee Elliott-IBSSG
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Hoffman [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:35 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] Backup strategy question

Cheryl Freeman wrote:
>Curiousity got the better of me. I restored my smallest backup which did
>not include external exhibits to another directory, and it restored the
>external exhibits, just as you said. But I am wondering why the size of my
>backups increases by nearly 100% when I include external backups.

Do a backup, then select File=>Maintenance=>Optimize. Now do another
backup using the same options as the first backup. The second will
probably be smaller. The pre-optimized backup will include all data
that you have changed or deleted as well as some minor administrative
data used by TMG and is re-created as needed.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)



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