Backing up your Information
Your information and records
should be backed up at frequent and regular intervals
in case something should happen to your computer or to one of your
files. Once backed up, if something should happen you could re-install
the program and restore the records without loosing much, if any, of
your information.
Backups may be made to floppy disks, optical disks
(CD/R) and to USB storage devices.
We have found that the inexpensive USB drives are by far the cheapest
and best backup media.
To backup your system data files select
Backup Salon & Spa from the Files or Administration menus and follow the onscreen prompts.
The location must be a
windows designated drive and have a drive letter. You can also backup to
another hard drive but it cannot be backed up to the drive that the
system is running from. For instance if you have set up your
system on drive C you will not be able to backup to that
drive. You may select a path to a subfolder on any
drive. If you are using floppy disks make sure to have some
formatted disks ready or disks from an older backup as the backup may
require one or more disks depending upon the size of your data files.
The system will remember your backup path and
location after the first use.
Backup Screen
Each time you shut Salon & Spa down it
keeps an automatic backup of all of your data files. There are
backups for each day that your business is open. Remember you must
shut Salon & Spa down at the end of the day to enable that backup to be
made.
These automatic backups will not be helpful for a hard drive
failure and you must make frequent manual backups.
Restoring Your System.
If you have lost all of your information
through a hard drive failure, which is the most common problem, or any
other type of system failure you have to re-install the SalonTrac
program first and then restore your data files.
To restore the system after a hard disk
crash or other problem with your computer select Restore Salon & Spa from
the System Menu. You will require the manager's password key to
undertake a restore even if the security is disabled in preferences.
Restore will prompt you as required. Note
that if you have to reinstall the Salon & Spa Program you must do that
before restoring the salon data.
Restore Screen
Advanced File Restore
You may restore individual system files from
automatic system backups or your last manual backup. You would use this feature if you
encounter problems with one individual file after making a change and
wish to go back to the previous day before the change was made.
From the administration System menu select Advanced System Restore.
The following screen will open allowing the selection of the file and
the backup day.
Advanced Restore Screen
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