Backing up projects using Professional with external links

[Tom Sheives]

I currently have .mpp files or projects with external links
to other .mpp files.

When I try to backup one of the .mpp files to another drive
or folder (saving it as a new name), the external links
seem to go with it. Hence if I open up the other linked
file, it now shows two dependencies (current and old) if
the old one is opened up along with it.

Is there a "best" practice method for backing up these
files without creating multiple links to backup files.

Also, if you were to restore a corrupted file or something
and had to then use the backup file, you would have
multiple links. Please advise.

 

[Rob Schneider]

Since you are just doing backups, why not use Windows Explorer to
manually drag a copy to the backup location of these mpp files. By
doing this, the mpp files won't be touched. Or automate this with xcopy
or robocopy commands. Or rely on your standard backup process that takes
incremental/full backups of your entire file system at intervals, which
is a prudent requirement anyway.

None of these ways will touch the mpp files.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms