Backing Up Your Data

Diabetes Pilot provides a convenient mechanism for making a backup copy of your data. If your Diabetes Pilot data is important to you, you should make a backup of it periodically. Backing up your data helps protect it from problems with your computer.

Backing Up Your Data

Restoring a Backup

Restoring an Automatic Backup

Backing Up Your Data

To make a backup copy of your data:

1. Start Diabetes Pilot and open the dataset that you'd like to back up. This backup procedure only backs up the currently open dataset.
2. From the "File" menu, select "Backup Data File..."
3. In the window that appears, choose a location to save the backup. It's a good idea to save the backup file to an external disk, memory device, or CD so that you have a safe copy even if something happens to your computer.
4. Click the "Save" button.

Restoring a Backup

To restore your data from a backup copy:

1. Start Diabetes Pilot.
2. Open the dataset that you'd like to fill with your backup data. If the dataset does not exist, you can create one by selecting "Manage Datasets" from the "File" menu. Note that restoring your data will replace the data in the current dataset with the data in the backup.
3. From the "File" menu, select "Restore Data File..."
4. In the window that appears, find your backup file.
5. Click the "Open" button.

Restoring an Automatic Backup

Diabetes Pilot Desktop will occasionally make automatic backups of your data for you. This serves as a secondary backup, but it should not take the place of the regular backups described above. If you make a mistake with your data, you may wish to restore one of the automatic backups:

1. Start Diabetes Pilot.
2. From the "File" menu, select "Restore Data from an Automatic Backup..."
3. In the window that appears, find the backup that you would like to restore and click on it to select it.
4. Click the "Restore Selected Data" button.