tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:/discussions/general-questions/82779-question-feature-request-automatic-periodic-incremental-backups-in-moneydanceInfinite Kind: Discussion 2019-03-10T14:44:01Ztag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/470076592019-02-26T20:58:41Z2019-02-26T20:58:41ZQuestion / Feature request (?) automatic, periodic, incremental backups in Moneydance?<div><p>I'm a fellow user.</p>
<p>You can create a backup any time you like via the Menu bar command File --> Export Backup. To ensure data integrity any time a backup of an sort is required to be performed means you have to suspend all input, flush all buffers before the backup it taken, not something that should just happen periodically.</p>
<p>Managing full and incremental backups would require a software program all of its own, the Moneydance data structure can be quite involved.</p>
<p>Moneydance does automatically save your data as it goes, something like every 20 seconds from memory (if there has been input)</p></div>dwgtag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/470076592019-02-26T20:59:23Z2019-02-26T20:59:23ZQuestion / Feature request (?) automatic, periodic, incremental backups in Moneydance?<div><p>I am not support staff, just a user.</p>
<p>Moneydance has two methods for making a backup.</p>
<p>The default backup location can be found under HELP – SHOW ARCHIVE FOLDER. This location is on your hard drive. In both cases you can select the backup location and as such it is good practice to set the location on a cloud server such as Dropbox, in case your hard drive fails.</p>
<p>Manual backup. A manual backup can be made under FILE – BACKUP EXPORT. The file naming convention is yourdatasetname-yyyymmdd-tttt.moneydancearchive</p>
<p>Automatic backup is set under FILE – PREFERENCES – BACKUPS. Auto backup makes a backup every time you close Moneydance. Moneydance only keep the last auto backup of the day, overwriting any previous auto backups for that day. You can set the number of backups to be kept. When this number is exceeded the oldest backup is deleted. The file naming convention is yourdatasetname.yyyy-mm-dd.moneydancearchive</p>
<p>When a backup is made, if you were syncing, the syncing method is set to don’t sync. Your password is not reset, you still need it to do a restore from backup. A moneydancearchive file is a compressed data set.</p>
<p>The contents of a backup file is AES256 encrypted and provided you have set a password under FILE – PASSWORDS can only be opened by Moneydance by entering your password after using FILE – RESTORE FROM BACKUP.</p>
<p>When you FILE – RESTORE FROM BACKUP you do not overwrite your existing data set, a new data set is created with the naming convention – from manual backup yourdatasetname-yyyymmdd-tttt.moneydance the date time code taken from the backup file - from auto backup yourdatasetname (plus at number) e.g. yourdatasetname 2.moneydance The default data set location can be found under HELP – SHOW DOCUMENT FOLDER. You can rename a restored data set with Moneydance closed as you would any other folder provided you retain “.moneydance” extension. A data set is a folder not a file containing other folders and files. When you open Moneydance it will open in the “Welcome to Moneydance” window with the data set name listed on the right.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p></div>derekkent23tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/470076592019-02-28T10:53:12Z2019-02-28T10:53:14ZQuestion / Feature request (?) automatic, periodic, incremental backups in Moneydance?<div><p>It works out that I'm doing my backups the same way I did them in Quicken.</p>
<p>Viz.:<br>
1. Create a share on my NFS server. (Already done)<br>
2. Map a drive letter on my system to a particular location within the share where I am storing data for the 2018 tax year. (For Quicken it was "Q:", Moneydance is "M:")<br>
3. Periodically why I work, perform two backups. One to the default backup location and one to the mapped backup drive.<br>
4. I am especially diligent about this prior to doing something potentially destructive - like a massive import of account data.</p>
<p>I insure a complete history by setting the number of backups to save to "infinite". I periodically visit the two backup locations, gather "unused" backup files, and commit them to a RAR-file archive.</p>
<p>I totally understand that creating a more involved backup method could be well out-of-scope for this kind of product.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Jim "JR"</p></div>jimrh