Recently I lost an important IDA database. Up until now, I manually made a copy of my work IDB every day, but that's obviously not a good backup technique. I was wondering how do you manage/backup your IDB. Like make a copy of the current IDB every minute or something like that.
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The recently added database snapshot feature allows you to set up periodical snapshots of your database.

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how (if at all) is this related to the feature controlled by the
AUTOSAVE
setting inidagui.cfg
? Also, is the hierarchical snapshot feature that Ero suggested implemented? Starting with which version of IDA? – 0xC0000022L Jan 13 '14 at 18:18 -
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only flushes in-memory changes to disk, it does not create a complete database copy. Hierarchical snapshots were in the initial release (6.2). – Igor Skochinsky Jan 13 '14 at 18:57
AUTOSAVE
incfg/idagui.cfg
) to make this a meaningful autosave. Simply using an external tool without previously writing the IDB will likely result in a similar situation you're encountering with the IDB from the crashed VM. – 0xC0000022L Jan 13 '14 at 17:29