User manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Welcome to Bento
- Overview of Bento
- Using Libraries
- Using the Address Book and iCal Libraries
- Using Collections
- Using Form View
- About Forms
- Viewing a Form and a Table at the Same Time
- Creating Records in Form View
- Editing Records in Form View
- Duplicating Records in Form View
- Deleting Records in Form View
- Creating Forms
- Deleting Forms
- Duplicating Forms
- Renaming Forms
- Adding Fields to a Form
- Tabbing Between Fields
- Moving Fields and Objects on Forms
- Resizing Fields and Objects
- Removing Fields from a Form
- Customizing Form Layouts
- Using Table View
- Using Fields
- Importing, Exporting, and Printing
- Backing Up and Restoring Information
- Using Bento with Bento for iPhone and iPod touch
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Index
100 Chapter 9 Backing Up and Restoring Information
About Bento Backup Files
When you create a Bento backup file, you create a copy of the data that is in Bento.
The backup file contains the data in your libraries and collections at the time you run
the back up command.
Important: The Bento backup file does not contain the data from the Address Book
and iCal applications. You should back up your Address Book and iCal data whenever
you back up your Bento data.
1 To create a backup of the data in the Address Book application, use the Address
Book application’s archive feature.
1 To create a backup of the data in the iCal application, use the iCal application’s
backup feature.
However, if you add fields to the records in the Address Book library, the iCal Events
library, or the iCal Task library, then the data in those additional fields is included in
the Bento backup file.
How Field Types Are Backed Up
Consider the following when you back up file list fields, media fields, or related
records list fields.
For Bento backs up
File list fields The listed filenames and locations, but not the contents of the files.
Media fields The contents of the fields (for most media fields) because Bento stores copies of the
media files.
However, if you use aliases to media files rather than copying the media files into
bento.bentodb, Bento backs up the filenames and locations of the files that are added
to media fields, but not the contents of the files. You should back up these media files
to a location in the Finder.
Related records
list fields
The data shown in related records lists, because these fields show data from libraries
and collections.
However, Bento does not back up the data from the Address Book, iCal Events, and
iCal Tasks libraries. If you use related records lists that reference those libraries, then
the data is dependent on what is available in the Address Book and iCal applications.