Backups


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Backups

Any database in ChessBase format actually consists of multiple files! 

When you create a database in .CBH format, you'll notice that the program (ChessBase, Fritz, or one of the other playing programs) will ask you to name the .CBH file. This does not indicate that the whole database is stored in just that one file!

The .CBH file stores just the header information from the games in the database; the annotations are stored in another file, the moves in yet another, each key is kept in its own file, etc. If you backup or save just the .CBH file and try to open it later, you'll get nothing - the additional files are required.

To backup a database in Fritz etc., load that database and click Menu  -> Database -> Backup database (or hit Ctrl+Z).

Fritz 15 gives you an explorer window that lets you store the .CBV file in any folder.

In Chessbase, you get choice of saving it to a "Crypted" or "Uncrypted" file as well (choose uncrypted).

In ChessBase 13 select the Database in the Database window and now Menu Maintenance – Backup Database.

 

 

 

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