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How far back do your back-ups go (if a wood chuck could chuck backups)?

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Mrdavie

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I have started to save just a month's worth of backups and delete the older ones. Thought of this question after v.9 generated a totally new catalog.
 
One per year for previous years, one per month for the last 12 months, and all the current month's backups will cover you for most contingencies. Cletus (if I remember correctly) claims to have gone back to quite an old backup to clear up a user-error problem. Zipped, catalogues don't take up much disk space, so it won't cost you too much.
 
One per year for previous years, one per month for the last 12 months, and all the current month's backups will cover you for most contingencies. Cletus (if I remember correctly) claims to have gone back to quite an old backup to clear up a user-error problem. Zipped, catalogues don't take up much disk space, so it won't cost you too much.

Hal remembers correctly. Once I managed to delete all of the keywords from one image only to discover that I had 2000+ selected. Several months passed before I discovered my mistake.
I had to search at least 6 months worth of backup catalogs before I found one without the mistake.
Now I have an old EHD dedicated to receiving catalog backups. I never delete any and when the disk fills, I’ll remove the oldest and keep adding.


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How far back do your back-ups go?
Er, 2006. But that's not normal behavior!! :D

The furthest back I've needed to restore was 6 months, and that was due to a bug on an unreleased version. We all make mistakes though, so I'd lean towards Hal's suggestion of keeping backups at intervals.
 
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