How will I know if my back up to an external hard drive worked?

Hello

I completed a back up of my external catalogue of Elements12 of a hard drive but when I try to view them that they were recorded in all sorts of different ways. Some of them are from GOM media files that will not open at all.

Some say SYNCDB or CACHE or PREF files that tell me I need an application to open, others are for XML Documents that show only the lists of data. The list is long...

Open OK in program elements, but how can I know if or not he saved everything if I can't open or access these files that elements copied to my hard drive?

I'm completely lost. Before I had items that I simply copied my photo folder and video of my HDD ext and everything worked, not messages saying: this file needs an app or this video file could not be opened!

Help

The most important thing to understand is that backups of the Organizer are not mere copies and they can only be used by the restoration of the Organizer function.

ianm5737231 wrote:

Hello

I completed a back up of my external catalogue of Elements12 of a hard drive but when I try to view them that they were recorded in all sorts of different ways. Some of them are from GOM media files that will not open at all.

Some say SYNCDB or CACHE or PREF files that tell me I need an application to open, others are for XML Documents that show only the lists of data. The list is long...

Open OK in program elements, but how can I know if or not he saved everything if I can't open or access these files that elements copied to my hard drive?

So, the simple answer is that you should see the message at the end of the process, stating that the backup was successful.

If you're skeptical, I fear that the only way to 100% is to do a restore and see if everything is ok.

One thing I always do (and recommend) is to see if you can find a file named "backup.tly". It is the last created and contains everything you need to restore your catalog and your image files, even if you choose to restore to an alternate location.

I'm completely lost. Before I had items that I simply copied my photo folder and video of my HDD ext and everything worked, not messages saying: this file needs an app or this video file could not be opened!

You can get a copy of your folders of photos, but this is not enough. You must also have a copy of your catalog records (location: menu help/information system). And if you are restoring to a different computer, which is not enough either: all your files will be shown as disconnected... good luck with the reconnection process. Believe me, use the backup/restore of Organizer system, at least when you want to migrate to another computer, disk or operating system!

Since we are never too sure about backups, a good solution is to use your preferred regularly copy or sync system AND to make the full organizing backups periodically or when you want to upgrade.

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