A Better Way to Manage Your Everyday Money - Book - Page 117
Taking regular backups of active cashflow spaces is vital for protecting your information from
mishaps. With a current backup, you can recover a cashflow space by restoring from the most
recent backup.
Where you store your backups is just as important as taking them. One of the mishaps you are
protecting your information from is a computer crash that results in all of the data on the hard
drive being lost. Ideally, at least one of your backups for each cashflow space will be on a device
that is separate from your computer's hard drive. Backups could, for example, be on a thumb
drive, an external hard drive, a service like Dropbox or Sync, or some other service in the cloud.
Doing a restore means replacing all of the information in the open cashflow space with the
information stored in a backup location. Restoring a cashflow space removes all activity done in
the cashflow space after the point at which the backup was taken.
Cashflow spaces are typically restored to:
● remove errors made since the last backup, or
● clone a cashflow space.
Contact Info and Contacts
In PerNetFlow, you can store Contact Info for bills and credit cards. As discussed in Chapter 15,
you can also store information on Contacts. The bill and credit card Contact Info in each
cashflow space is included when each space is backed up. Contacts are associated only with the
Primary cashflow space. When you back up the Primary space, you are asked if you want to
include your Contacts in the backup.
When you restore your Primary cashflow space from a backup that
includes Contacts, you are asked if you want to replace all of your
Contacts with the Contacts from the backup. When you restore any
other cashflow space, Contacts are not restored regardless of whether
the backup contains Contacts.
When you zip the Primary cashflow space, you are asked separately
if you want to include:
● your Contacts, or
● the Contact Info for bills and credit cards.
107
