how to restore backup

[Gary Holtum]

"you have a time-date stamped series of backups"

Makes sense, thanks for the help and explanation.
Gary

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Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 8:17 AM
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Subject: Re: how to restore backup

On 7/15/2015 9:52 PM, Gary Holtum wrote:
> Thank you Chris. I was not sure if I would lose data doing it this 
> way. The database software I am familiar with, usually has a backup 
> and restore function somewhere. I am not used to all the backup and 
> log files that are created.
> Gary
Trust me, I once did this sort of thing for my living. If an application has
only a simple backup-restore then ALL you could do is restore from the
immediately preceding backup (all earlier ones are lost). So if the problem
was two or three backups previous and you need to restore from immediately
before THAT, no hope.

Here you have a time-date stamped series of backups, so if you know WHEN the
problem occurred, you can recover. Of course you need to figure out the
right one to restore from (I remember once, where I worked, a wrong backup
was used, and it was working many days working around the clock till we got
the corporate database current again). So be careful about that.

What I suggest is every so often you go into the directory and delete the
really old backups (pairs of files) that you are sure you won't need. And of
course if you are using a general backup process (for ALL of your user data)
you can use that instead --- here there would be no name change involved.

Michael D Novack
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