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From: "Janis Rodriguez" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Backup strategy question
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:11:46 -0400
In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20060901003011.04d1b4f8@acm.org>


Folks,

I think you are also forgetting that you can save different backup
configurations. You do not have to save them all the time. I have a Backup
configuration where I backup everything and one where I backup everything
but external exhibits.

Note: When you restore from backup, make sure you have the folder where the
exhibits are on your computer or accessible. On my old computer, my hard
drive was split into two drives and all my external pics were on the D drive
in a folder titled Genealogy with subfolders for families. When I got my
new computer I loaded TMG and then restored my backup on it, TMG placed them
in the PICS file under TMG's Program Files even though I had copied the
Genealogy folder to my undivided C drive on the new computer. All my
exhibits in TMG were thus duplicated! I did not discover this untilrecently
so exhibits added after are in my genealogy folder under the family folder
and all the exhibits from the transferred backup dumped together in the
TMG/PICS folder without any of the taxonomy (folder structure) of my
Genealogy folder! So much for keeping them in a separate place NOT in the
Program files.

I need too fix this but it will be a pain! Does TMG's check for exhibits
look in nested folders?

Thanks in advance!
Jan



-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Hoffman [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 12:35 AM
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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