|
|
|
Junior Member
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 26/01/2008 6:54:04 PM
Posts: 0,
Visits: 18
|
|
I would like to see a change made to the way backups are carried out. Specifically I see two problems with the current approach:
1. A new backup typically will over-write the previous backup
2. Regardless of the Fund Name chosen in the Fund Selection screen, the backup file will be named after the original name the fund is given.
For example, if we assume the Fund is called the XYZ Fund, when I run backup the backup file name will be XYZ.mysf.
However, at times such as End of Year I may want to ensure that, after EOY processing, I can restore back to immediately prior to EOY processing.
To achieve this I could do a "Save AS" with Fund Name as "XYZPrior", then run EOY and, perhaps, do a "Save As" calling the new Fund Name "XYZAfter"
But when I run with any of these Funds (XYZ, XYZPrior, or XYZAfter), if I run a backup the backup File name created is XYZ.mysf, and it will overwrite the previous XYZ.mysf backup file which may have been created from a different Fund
This approach is confusing and can lead to important backups being over-written.
As an alternative I would like to suggest that each backup is created with the same name as the current fund name file, plus the date and time (XYZyyyymmddhhmm format).
Examples of this approach would be:
XYZ200510051005.mysf, XYZPrior200510051030.mysf, and XYZAfter20051012.2311.mysf
Another, perhaps simpler, file name approach would be XYZPrior12Apr05B.mysf where the "B" represents the second backup on that day.
Cumbersome I know and may lead to many backup files being kept but this is preferable to important backups being over-written.
Sorry for the lengthy entry.
Regards,
Don
|
|
|
|
|
MySF Administrator
Group: Administrators
Last Login: 29/01/2012 4:16:49 PM
Posts: 208,
Visits: 958
|
|
A Good suggestion we will have a look at it for the next release
Regards
MySF
|
|
|
|
|
MySF Administrator
Group: Administrators
Last Login: 4/11/2010 3:24:01 PM
Posts: 464,
Visits: 633
|
|
Hi,
Just confirming that this has been added and will be included in the next update. The file names in backup will look like:
MySF Sample Fund D17-10-2005 T11-54.mysf
and
MySF Sample Fund D17-10-2005 T11-54.zip
Where the D is the date and T is the time of the backup. This does lead to having a potentially large number of files in the backup directory, but it is better than losing information, and the extra files can always be deleted if no longer needed.
Kind Regards,
MySF
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 26/01/2008 6:54:04 PM
Posts: 0,
Visits: 18
|
|
Sounds great.
Many thanks for very speedy response.
Don
|
|
|
|