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The best ways to protect yourself from loss of information are good computer housekeeping practices and a backup regimen that incorporates rotating media and off-site storage.
Summit SafeGuard will help you avoid file corruption and give you early warnings of corruption in Summit data files and other Microsoft Access files.
Summit SafeGuard was designed to address the following problems:
People don't compact their data files as often as they should.
Of course they don't! It's difficult, inconvenient and time-consuming, particularly in a multi-user environment where they have to make sure no one else has the file open.
Unfortunately, this means that their data files keep getting larger and more fragmented, making them more likely to become corrupted. File corruption often starts with simple flaws that are easy to correct, but continued use of a flawed file can lead to complete, irreversible loss of all information.
We know of people who have lost over two year's work!
How Summit SafeGuard helps.
Summit SafeGuard is designed to run stand-alone, unattended, at a designated time every day, even after your office is closed. Every file on your list is compacted every day and you get a full report of the process. This means that you no longer have to worry if all your Summit data files are being compacted on a regular basis.
If someone compacts an already corrupt file, they can further damage it.
People can go for weeks or months with a file containing a corruption without knowing it, if they never go to the record containing the actual corruption. If they then compact the file, the compact/repair function can truncate data, rendering the file completely unrecoverable, even by specialist data recovery companies.
How Summit SafeGuard helps.
Summit SafeGuard runs a safeguarded compact of each file. This ensures that there has been no data loss and no internal compact errors have occurred. If a file is too corrupted for Summit SafeGuard to compact, no data have been lost, making it much more possible that specialist data recovery companies may recover all your data.
People don't know if they are backing up corrupt data files.
When you run your normal backups, you have no way of knowing if you are backing up corrupted data files. This means that you may end up with no backup copies of your data file as you can cycle through your full backup media sets before detecting the corruption.
How Summit SafeGuard helps.
Summit SafeGuard helps in two ways. Firstly, it makes alternative backup copies of successfully compacted files over a weekly rotation. Secondly, by highlighting problem files on a daily basis, you can ensure that corrective action is taken prior to your next backup. Ideally, you should time your backup to start after Summit SafeGuard has completed its compact and backup cycle. This means that you always know you have a clean, backed up data file.
Hardware fails.
Your file server may crash and data on it may be unrecoverable. If your nightly tape backup is also run from the file server, it may be difficult to recover your data files from tape.
How Summit SafeGuard helps.
Summit SafeGuard enables you to keep the alternative backup copies in any folder on your hard drive or network, not just on your file server. You can quickly rename and use one of these files.
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