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Restoring from backup

Module by: Joseph Grimes

Summary: Computers crash. Software does crazy things. You can survive that, but can you survive the loss of your data? You can if you plan.

The previous module showed you how to make a backup file. It suggested that you always keep an electronic copy in a safe place, preferably on another continent.

The acid test? A tsunami hits your field location and sweeps your house and your laptop out to sea. Fortunately, you were out of the way at the time. (No kidding; it happened to a friend of mine in pre-Wordcorr days.)

Eventually you get another computer, another house, ... From there, the steps are

  1. Download and install the Wordcorr program. (If it's a new computer, you'll want to choose the First Installation option rather than the Upgrade option, since there's nothing in the new computer that you can upgrade.)
  2. Have whoever keeps your backups send you the latest one as an email attachment.
  3. Save it to your file system.
  4. Start Wordcorr, select the File menu, select Import XML.
  5. Select the directory where you saved your backup file, then select the file.
  6. Click the "Open" button.

Your collection is restored to Wordcorr in a few minutes.

Note:

I wish keeping backups for the rest of your computer were as straightforward. If you've kept your incremental backups in the same room as your computer, a Category Five disaster would wipe them out with it. But they might survive a lesser disaster.

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