Help with Lightroom 4 backups

Hi!  I am about to upgrade my OS in order to upgrade to Lightroom 5.  I thought before that, I should check my LR 4 backups, and found there have been none ever since we upgraded to LR 4!!!  I checked all preferences, and catalog preferences has "Backup on Exit" selected, but the backup dialogue does not come up when the program is exited.  Anyone know what the solution is? Ta!

I dunno what the solution is, but I recommend making a manual backup of your catalog (i.e. just copy the lrcat file to backup disk - Lr must not have it open/locked).
Also, you can manually optimize catalog, if that still works (?) - see 'File' menu.
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