User manual
Table Of Contents
- Bento® 3
- Welcome to Bento
- Overview of Bento
- Using Libraries
- Using the Address Book, iCal, and iPhoto 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 Grid View
- Using Fields
- Importing, Exporting, and Printing
- Backing Up and Restoring Information
- Using Bento with Bento for iPhone and iPod touch
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Reverting to a Previous Version of Bento
- Index
118 Chapter 10 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
iCal, and iPhoto applications. You should back up your Address Book, iCal, and iPhoto
data whenever you back up your Bento data.
• To create a backup of the data in the Address Book application, use the
Address Book application’s archive feature.
• To create a backup of the data in the iCal application, use the iCal
application’s backup feature.
• To create a backup of the data in the iPhoto application, use the Time
Machine feature.
However, if you add fields to the records in the Address Book library, the iCal Events
library, the iCal Tasks library, or the iPhoto 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 data
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 data
fields
The data shown in related data fields, because these fields show data from libraries
and collections.
However, Bento does not back up the data from the Address Book, iCal Events, iCal
Tasks, and iPhoto libraries. If you use related data fields that reference those libraries,
then the data is dependent on what is available in the Address Book , iCal, and iPhoto
applications.