Re: Automatic Investment Backup

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In Reply to: Automatic Investment Backup posted by Clive on February 12, 2006 at 14:43:14:

: Hi Mark,

: I've recently upgrade to FM7. With previous versions I used the 'Automatic Investment Backup' to copy '*.dat' investment files to a removable media, so I was pleased to see that *.mm4 portfolio files would also be backed-up with FM7.

: However, with FM7, I no longer get an exact copy of the data files located in the 'My_Data' directory. My backup media's directory now contains old 'filename.dat', 'portfolio.mm4' and new 'portfolio_filename.dat' files.

: The fact that I only backup these files in case of a hard drive failure, why do the '*.dat' filenames differ between my active and backup directories? It would make more sense to me if contents of both directories would be the same.

: In the case of a hard drive failure, how would I restore the data?

: Alternatively, I could manually backup the 'My_Data' directory but this seems like a step backwards when considering how FM6 auto-backup worked for me in the past.

: I would appreciate your comments.

: Clive

Hi Clive,

The FM7 naming of the backed up investments was meant to be an improvement, so you could tell from the filename which subportfolio they belonged to, in case you needed to restore any investment.

To restore any investment you can just copy it out of the autoback folder (and then optionally rename it), and then re-open it into whatever portfolio it belonged in.

Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley
Fund Manager - portfolio management software for Windows

Replies:

• Re: Automatic Investment Backup Clive 15:34:53 02/13/06 (1)
  • Re: Automatic Investment Backup Mark 16:08:10 02/13/06 (0)