How do I access the cloud backup?

Drewski1962

I had a catastrophic hard drive failure recently, and am rebuilding my computer with a new drive. My external back up is almost 2 years old, but my Quicken would back up to a cloud each time I used it. Now, I'm seeing online that there is no automatic cloud back up. If not, then what was Quicken doing with my data? If that's incorrect, how do I backup from the cloud?

Sherlock

If you haven't already, you may want to review: https://www.quicken.com/support/what-quicken-cloud

Ps56k2

Nope - clearly says it is not a backup....

And your external backup is 2 years old - well -
what about all your other data, docs, photos, files, etc ??

https://www.quicken.com/support/what-quicken-cloud

BTW - I do a full disk image backup every month -
alternating between two external drives.
I also do a monthly copy of my /Docs  /Photos  /Music  /Download

My data storage is important to me - so I back it up -

Ps56k2

Drewski1962 said:

I got lucky. My Windows One Drive backed it up. I didn't think it would. You're right about backing up to the external drive far more frequently. Lesson learned the hard way.

Depending on where your OneDrive accessed the Quicken file - the actual QDF file, or any of the auto backups - you may still have problems....

The Quicken QDF file does not play well with the cloud backup services - you get a backup of the file.... but it may be corrupted and trashed.

Sherlock

If you haven't already, you may want to review: https://www.quicken.com/support/what-quicken-cloud

Ps56k2

Nope - clearly says it is not a backup....

And your external backup is 2 years old - well -
what about all your other data, docs, photos, files, etc ??

https://www.quicken.com/support/what-quicken-cloud

BTW - I do a full disk image backup every month -
alternating between two external drives.
I also do a monthly copy of my /Docs  /Photos  /Music  /Download

My data storage is important to me - so I back it up -

Drewski1962

I got lucky. My Windows One Drive backed it up. I didn't think it would. You're right about backing up to the external drive far more frequently. Lesson learned the hard way.

Ps56k2

Drewski1962 said:

I got lucky. My Windows One Drive backed it up. I didn't think it would. You're right about backing up to the external drive far more frequently. Lesson learned the hard way.

Depending on where your OneDrive accessed the Quicken file - the actual QDF file, or any of the auto backups - you may still have problems....

The Quicken QDF file does not play well with the cloud backup services - you get a backup of the file.... but it may be corrupted and trashed.

Drewski1962

ps56k:

That's what I thought, which is why I didn't go to my OneDrive back up initially. However, so far, so good. As I said, lesson learned.