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.
answered Jan 13, 2014 at 17:40
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how (if at all) is this related to the feature controlled by the
AUTOSAVEsetting inidagui.cfg? Also, is the hierarchical snapshot feature that Ero suggested implemented? Starting with which version of IDA?– 0xC0000022L ♦Jan 13, 2014 at 18:18 -
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AUTOSAVEonly 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, 2014 at 18:57
AUTOSAVEincfg/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.