Database Reference
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base, one for each hour from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Alternately, you can turn on Weekly if
you just want backups every week (in this configuration, it keeps four copies).
It often makes sense to turn all these schedules on. That way, you get hourly backups for the
current day, daily backups for the past week, and weekly backups for a month, which is a
nice balance of frequent recent copies and a few old copies in case of catastrophe (imagine,
for instance, you accidentally delete hundreds of older records, and don't notice for a week).
If you want to modify any of the built-in backups, in the left-side bar, click Schedules, select
the schedule you want to change and then choose “Edit a Schedule” from the Actions pop-up
menu (identified by the calendar icon). FileMaker walks you through a step-by-step config-
uration. You can, for instance, switch the hourly backups to run starting at 7:00 a.m. instead
of 8:00 a.m., or tell the weekly backup to keep eight copies instead of four.
If you need a more advanced setup (maybe you want to do a special backup that your offsite
backup system picks up every Friday at midnight), then you can make as many new sched-
ules as you want:
1.
On the Schedules panel, choose “Create a Schedule” from the Actions pop-up
menu
.
The Schedule Assistant window (
Figure 19-14
) appears.
2.
Make sure “Back up databases” is selected and then click Next
.
The Schedule Assistant asks what kind of schedule you want. You can choose one of
the canned schedule types listed earlier in this chapter (Hourly, Daily, or Weekly) to
use as a starting point, or you can start with a clean slate by choosing Custom.
3.
Select Custom and then click Next
.
The assistant now asks which databases you want to back up. You can back up all
your databases, just those in a particular folder, or a single selected database.
