| The Guest Tracker Backup Program allows
you to backup to a Floppy Drive or to a Path. A Path can be your computer's
hard drive, another hard drive on your computer, another drive on a
local area network, a zip drive, or a CD-RW drive.
NOTE: This feature of the Guest Tracker Backup Program requires
that you have Guest Tracker version 2.1.7 or later installed. If
you do not, go download the most recent update. NOTE: In order to back up to a CD-RW, you will need to be using
Guest Tracker version 3 or higher and must be using Adaptec's Direct
CD or a similar program that makes it possible to write directly
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| 1.) |
To find out what drives you have available
to you, double click on the My Computer icon on your desktop.
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| 2.) |
Within the My Computer window, you can
view all of the drives available to you.
In the following graphic, you can see that you have a Floppy Drive
which is the A: drive, 2 hard drives which are the C: and D: drives,
a CD-ROM drive which is the E: drive and a Zip Disk Drive which
is the F: drive. Using the Guest Tracker Backup Program, you can
backup to any of these drives (as long as the CD-ROM drive is a
Rewritable CD Drive and not a regular CD-ROM).
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| 1.) |
Exit out of Guest Tracker and start the
Backup Program.
If you are not prompted to start Backup when exiting Guest Tracker,
click the START button, go to PROGRAMS, find the GUEST TRACKER
folder, and then click on BACKUP to start.
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| 2.) |
Click on the Backup command button to begin
the backup process.
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| 3.) |
The Backup Database file dialog will appear
which allows you to backup a different database if necessary. Click
OK to backup your current Guest Tracker database, or select a different
database to backup and click OK.
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| 4.) |
The Backup window will then appear (as
in the following graphic). In the To area, click on the Path option.
When you do this a text box labeled "To:" will appear at
the bottom of the window. You can type into this field the path (in
the form of drive:\directory) that you'd like to backup to. In our case we are going to backup to our Zip Disk or
our F: drive (as determined above). You'll notice the path
we typed in was actually "F:\Monday". This will
create a folder on the Zip Disk called Monday.
CAUTION: We DO NOT recommend having all of your Guest
Tracker backups on one disk. If something happens to that
disk, you could be without a backup! A better suggestion
is to use one Zip Disk for each day of the week. (For more
information about why this is a good idea, please see What
can I do to make sure that my data is protected?)
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| 5.) |
If you specify a folder that does not exist,
you will be asked if you'd like to have it created for you. Click Yes
to have the folder created for you automatically.
If you use a different disk for each day of the week (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!),
you can use the folder name "TRACKER" (i.e.: F:\Tracker)
every day. That way you will not need to change folder names every
day.
Warning! Guest Tracker's Backup program doesn't understand folder
names that are more than 8 characters in length! That means, for
instance, that using the folder name WEDNESDAY will prevent your
backup from completing properly.
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| 6.) |
At the end of the backup process you will
get a message that explains what was and was not backed up. Click OK
to finish the backup process.
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