Back-up, Back-up, Back-up

[Xenofex2]

Just a warning.

After adding quite a bit of data to my Tree in FTM 2019, I undertook a back-up to an external hard-drive. However I must admit that this is something that, up to now, I don’t automatically and regularly do.

The following day I went to add a Baptism Fact. Thought I was typing in the date details, looked at the screen and saw that nothing had been entered. What had happened I suddenly realised was that the child’s Father had been deleted from my Tree. There had been no warning. No ‘are you sure’ message.

Fortunately I had actioned this back-up and with the help of Live Chat, I managed to ‘restore’ this version. Looking now at the ‘Facts’ of the person initially deleted, the father had, full Birth, Baptism, Marriage & Death details. 4 Census entries. 8 Employment entries. 5 Address details. 16 Media Items. Yet all this suddenly disappeared without a warning.

Another lesson learnt.

[cbcarolyn]

Always worth backing up, and really not locally, if PC crashes you would lose it all.

My FTM is my back up from Ancestry.

[Xenofex2]

Whilst my Tree is on FTM, I do also synch with Ancestry so that I can view it on my iPad.

Now whether I am right or not, I have some recollection made ages ago that at a FTM Lecture, I think it is the Media, that is not synch’d. In my circumstances I did not really wish to find out whether this was true or not.

I had backed up to a portable hard drive. However thinking about it afterwards, one normally has unused flashdrives around so could now even set up a system using a flashdrive for different days of the week. Whatever, make sure I do a backup.

Just another tip. I did initially have concern over the quality of my backup when I could not install it. However with the help of the excellent 24/4 Live Chat I found the solution. One does not install, one restores. Silly me!

https://support.mackiev.com/487839-Restoring-from-a-Backup-in-FTM-2017-and-FTM-2019

[cbcarolyn]

I think you used to be able to choose about media. You will be able to see the media on your ancestry tree to know if it is there.

I have just got a new PC and installed FTM2017, I downloaded software from Mackiev and had the 'key' then I just synched to Ancestry to get my tree on my new PC. Looks like it was all there and successful.