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magician62
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 Posted - 19 Jun 2011 : 09:45:01
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As far as I can tell you can only make an automated backups when you start.
This means you are making a backup of a file created and some unknown time in the past, which may already be corrupted.
If possible it may be better to make a backup on program close, so you are making a copy of the changes you have just made, with reduced risk of corruption due to shorter time frame.
Additionally it would be nice if the number of backups could be limtied, as you say in the instructions the folder can grow quickly. Maybe by number of backups or days. Using days as the first criteria the number. i.e 60 days and/or 10 backups, which ever gives the oldest backup.
Scenarios
Using the program regulary, you could accumulate 10 backups in 1 day
Using irregular, you may only make 1 backup in a month or more
I may not have the logic exact, but hopefully you will get my meaning |
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Alessio Viti
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apd
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Greece
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Posted - 24 Jun 2011 : 13:14:50
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| I just noticed this post. Alessio, the dates are bugged. Please check my post in the bugs section. |
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Alessio Viti
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kencr
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 Jul 2011 : 23:23:46
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I tend to agree with magician62 on this point. I had a system failure last year due to an error in another program, completely unconnected to XMM. I lost a lot of information, but fortunately I was able to recover some of the files using the old DOS system.
It's far more likely that corruption of a system would occur when XMM is NOT being used, so if a backup is created at the end of a session with XMM, the additions, amendments, etc. made in that session would be preserved. However if the system is corrupted after the previous session, it may not be possible to run XMM to make a new backup
If that happens, it may be necessary to re-install XMM completely. Assuming the backup files haven't been erased or corrupted as well, it would be necessary to revert to the most recent backup, which might be days or weeks old. |
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Edited by - kencr on 12 Jul 2011 10:43:51 |
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