From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Feb 13 15:41:49 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1DMfnjb026793; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:41:49 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1DMfnEf022641 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:41:49 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1DKD0FI011744 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:13:00 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1DKD03T011743 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:13:00 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1DK7lFI011677 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:07:47 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1DMaOmO023865 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:36:24 -0700 X-Envelope-From: lynne227@aircanopy.net Mon Feb 13 15:36:24 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1DMaOjb023854 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:36:24 -0700 Received: from barracuda.aircanopy.net (barracuda.aircanopy.net [66.160.208.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1DMaMXU020396 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:36:23 -0700 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1139870174-22741-192-0 X-Barracuda-URL: http://barracuda.aircanopy.net:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from mail.aircanopy.net (unknown [192.168.10.20]) by barracuda.aircanopy.net (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 93D8110FC1E for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:36:14 -0600 (CST) Received: from LYNNE (BV1-80.aircanopy.net [66.160.217.80]) by mail.aircanopy.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DB20234FF for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:36:51 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <000801c630ed$e7df20a0$6501a8c0@LYNNE> From: "lynne227" To: X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Backing up a large database Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:36:17 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Virus-Scanned: by Aircanopy Spam Firewall at aircanopy.net X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using per-user scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=3.5 KILL_LEVEL=5.0 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.02, rules version 3.0.8688 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Backing up a large database I always back up my files about once a week, (A virus wiped me out once while on vacation several years ago. When I returned home and before I could update my computer, my FTM files were gone. I had backed them up on floppies -it took 3- but even the helpful people at Geneology, com could only get the lst disc to open-everytime you put the 2nd disc it, the program would not accept it. When I was backing it up, the program kept indicating that each floppy was successfully backed up) Now I am using writable CD, 650MB size. Today, I went to back up my files and I had 850 MB so it would not overwrite. I have a lot of documents, photos, etc. in my file as am preparing to print it off as a "book" soon. Does anyone have any ideas on how to back it up as a one shot or must I break it down into several families, therefore several CD's. Thanks for any help Lynne in Texas