Get rid of Automatic Backup nag?

If you go into the backup preferences by calling up backup you will find where to shut that off or change it to a more suitable number or set up the automatic backup features.

Richard J. Wyble wrote:

none wrote (6/22/2005 2:06 PM):

Thank you!

I hope you have a good backup routine! The best, I've found, is an external hard drive plus Acronis backup software. It backs up all the time and saves once a day so one can revert to any day. I back up my whole sustem: system, program and data files.

Ken

n> If you go into the backup preferences by calling up backup you will find

My server creates backups of critical information every 12 hours saving it on a rotating basis to different hard disks. So I think I'm covered.

Ken wrote:

Ken wrote (6/22/2005 5:49 PM):

Yes, I have good backup routines.

Frankly, I suggest that a hard drive is a very short-sighted solution for backing anything up, assuming one is serious about backup routines. Firstly, it is of finite capacity; when it's full, it's full. Secondly, it is a hard drive, susceptible to the same misfortunes as any other hard drive. And lastly, it is in one location only, meaning there is only a single backup copy without the possibility of taking copies off-premises on a rotating basis.

In our software (which has nothing to do with QB), we just added an automatic routine to send the Zipped backup as an email attachement to the customer's GMail address.

This is the equivalent of "getting it out of the building" thereby protecting against the additional dangers of fire, burglary, employee malice, and other evils and iniquities.

With 2+ Gigs of storage space, a GMail account should be sufficient for several generations of backups. Caution: Should you try this on your own, be aware that the practical limit for a single attachement is about 8 Megs. Further, GMail will not accept an attachement with a .ZIP extension (or EXE, COM, etc.). We rename our backup files (something).PIZ