Backing Up Your Data
Many, if not most, DMB users invest a lot of time in the game.
Depending on your interests, you may create new leagues using items
from different databases, create new players, or simply play a lot
of games using one of the standard Diamond Mind Season Disks.
Anytime you put that much time and effort into something, it
pays to make periodic backups in case something goes wrong with
your hard drive, some of your data is accidentally deleted, or you
inadvertently perform an action within DMB that you wish to
reverse.
To back up your data:
1. Make sure the active database is the one
you wish to back up. If necessary, use the Change
active database command to activate
the database to be backed up.
2. Click File on the DMB menu bar and
select Backup.
The following window will appear:
3. If you don't want to save the file to the default location,
use the standard Windows navigation features to locate the drive,
folder, etc. where you want save your backup. In the above image,
change the "Save in" location by using the pulldown menu that
currently displays the backup folder.
4. Type a name in
the File name field for your backup. Since the backup will always
be a "zip" file, the file type field is disabled.
5. Click Save. To save space, DMB
compresses all of the files in your active database and stores them
in a single compressed file. As this is happening, the following
window shows a progress report on the backup process:
A message box appears when the backup
is complete.
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