Excellent strategy, Cal. I hope everyone reads this post and follows your
strategy.
FWIW, I've developed a slight variation after several years of using Money.
I've found out the hard way the Money often starts to malfunction in ways
that are not readily apparent at first and may become incorporated into all
of your backups without your knowing it. Three recent examples that come to
mind:
1. If a single paycheck entry is not matched correctly, your income will
suddenly double in your Budget and cannot be reset. Nice if it were true,
but it ain't.
2. The Home Mortgage account often stops working correctly and starts
assigning your entire payment to principle and cannot be reset. Nice if it
were true, but it ain't.
3. Reports are just plain scary. They frequently head south for reasons I
have been unable to discern. And Money's "repair" options usually just make
matters worse. They're worse than Outlook's.

So I leave Money's automatic backups at the minimum setting and rely upon
them very little. Instead I do a manual backup once or twice a week to
another drive. So far I've been able to recover fairly easily from every
trick each new version of Money has played on me.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
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In microsoft.public.money, Rod wrote:

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Good. Money 2006 default settings are good in that they back up the
latest 4 sessions by default. Here is how I would improve them for
my preferences:

In M06 Tools-> Settings-> BackupSettings
I suggest checking
x Automatically backup my Money file every time I close Money
Save in [a place on your hard drive ]
x Ask me before backing up each time*
x Compress Backup Files
Keep only the _20_most recent backup files [adjust to taste]

x Perform scheduled backups every _30 days
Save in [a USB flash drive location]
x Ask me before backing up each time*
x Compress Backup Files
Keep only the _2_most recent backup files [adjust to taste,
but Money 2006 does not automatically trim to USB as it should]

Then periodically, perhaps once per month or more, copy your latest
backup (uniquely named by Money) to a CDR. With XP, this can be a
copy and paste operation. Otherwise use the burning software that
came with your CDR drive.

I strongly suggest use of a USB Flash rather than floppies. They
are bigger, so you don't have to swap media to back up. Plus
they are much more reliable (but not failure-proof).

* The reason I have Money ask me, is that I don't want to back up
each time I exit. If I went into Money 5 times in a day, I would not
want to back up 5 times, nor would I want to delete 5 other backup
files. You will be given the choice to BackUpNow or to Postpone.


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Thank you, Cal, I want to restore to the last backup, which for me was just
last weekend.

Rod

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In microsoft.public.money, Rod wrote:

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Restore puts the *.mny file that you restore to in the same
condition that the .mny file was when you do the backup.

You can restore to a different filename if you don't want to
overwrite the current file.

You can think of it as an undo of whatever you did since the restore
file (*.mbf) was made.

If you want to abandon everything and start from scratch,
File-> New-> NewFile could be of use.

I am going to do a restore from my last backup. I am sure that the restore
is something accessible from the File menu. What I want to know is, does a
restore complete delete everything that is in the MS Money database? What
does happen with a restore?

Rod