What is a reasonable number of backups of Quicken data to maintain?

Question

I am curious as to what is a safe number of backups of my quicken data to keep?  I backup after each session.  As of now all registers are in balance and no questionable transactions exist.  Thank you for your replies.

Jon · Answer

QM is the same.

Boatnmaniac · Answer

I agree with you, except I would suggest having backups to cover at least a month.  Sometimes an issue comes up that we won't see for a couple of weeks or more so if you have only a couple of weeks of backups then you might be SOL in being able to recover from it.  
I don't know about QM but QW does not allow for selecting a time period for automatic backup settings...must select a quantity of backups.  So, select a quantity of backups to be retained that based upon your usage of Quicken approximates the time period you want to have backups for.

Jon · Answer

I think looking at it from a time basis is better than a quantity basis. Somebody who opens their Quicken file several times a day should have a higher number of backups than someone who only opens it a couple times a week.

I'd say having backups going back at least a couple weeks is a good idea, however many backup files that turns out to be.