"David E. Cann" <decann@infi.net> wrote: >1. Is there any reason I should not do what I outlined above? > No, there is no reason you should not do that. >2. In view of the statement below that "it is not a good idea" to put your >backups in the same folder with the program, can someone tell me why? Well, if your hard disk goes bad then your backup is gone too! Better is to have two hard disks in your computer, using one only for backups. It is unlikely that both hard disks would go bad at the very same time. It is imperative that you also put the backups on removable media kept away from the computer every time you back anything up. It is convenient, though, to also have backups on the same disk, for if just your database gets corrupted, it is much quicker to restore from the hard disk than from removable media. Wayne League