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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Backup strategy question
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:39:54 -0400
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Richard J Otter wrote:
>I generally find that Backups are easy, it's the restore that usually causes
>the headaches.

Should be no problem here, a Restore is just the mirror image of a
backup. There are certain options that most of these are somewhat
out of the ordinary or at least different from your original
backup. In other words, you can do a full backup and then either do
a full restore or a partial restore. The destination can be back to
where it was or to a different location.

>So, using only TMG's built-in backup/restore system-
>It sounds like one can use a tiered backup strategy:

Yes,

>My understanding of why the project file only backup is so effective is that
>it only backs up the data tables and not the index files.
>When restoring a project only BU into a folder that has an older version of
>the same project with their associated index files, will the existing index
>files be automatically be marked for re-creation after the table files are
>changed by the restore?

No TMG index files are included in any backup. Index files are
always re-created when a backup is restored. These index and
administrative files are just files that TMG uses to speed up the use
of the program based on what is already in the main files.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
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A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)


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