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[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

Scott Prentice said:

>If you want real backups, you need to set up a mechanism for copying the current files elsewhere for safe keeping.

Indeed!

(As I recall, we discussed this recently) ... my approach is an "Archive" folder below the book folder to which I copy everything before each edit session, so I can "roll back" if needed. And a separate Windows-level backup system (I highly recommend ShadowProtect from StorageCraft - but there are others) to store away changed files twice a day, with a 3 month rolling storage.

Z

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Scott Prentice
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 2:21 PM
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I think that the idea of the FM "backup" files is to provide *something* in case the current file gets corrupted in some way. It's better to lose the last edits to a file than to have the current (possibly corrupt) file overwrite what was a good file.

Perhaps instead of calling these "filename.backup.fm" it should have been "filename.lastgood.fm".

If you want real backups, you need to set up a mechanism for copying the current files elsewhere for safe keeping.

...scott




On 2/11/15 2:10 PM, Fred Ridder wrote:
David Artman wrote:
5) Generate output and peruse. DO NOT save FM files yet! If it boked a couple of times, fix thm; if it borked a ton; rollback to your backup.fm<http://backup.fm> files (you DO automatically save backup.fm<http://backup.fm> files every save, riiiight? ;) )

No, in fact I *don't* let FrameMaker generate .backup.fm files because they aren't really backups. They are just renamed versions of the *previous* saved version of the file.

Say you open a document FileA.fm. You make a whole slew of changes, and then do a Save. You figure that the newly saved FileA.fm is identical to FileA.backup.fm because you had FrameMaker make a "backup" upon saving, right. Wrong. FileA.backup.fm is the *original* file that you opened, *before* you made any changes to it. The "backup" is always one set of changes behind the content that a real backup would have in it. (And since Frame won't even let you do a Save unless you've changed *something*, the current saved version and the "backup" can *never* be identical.) So rolling back to the automatic "backup" will actually lose you the last set of changes that were in your last save.

-Fred Ridder




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