Set End
Before you can use the Backup or Delete options, you must first tell the Backup Utility which type of
Data Files you wish to work with, and also the Start Date and End Date of the period in which you wish
to carry out the Backup or Delete operation.
You enter the End date for the work period in the format DD/MM/YYYY, so that February 1st 1994
would be entered as 01/02/1994.
Dates are checked as they are entered to make sure that you haven’t asked for the 32nd of a month, or a
date next year and so forth.
Once you have set the Start Date and the End Date you can use them repeatedly. They stay set until you
change them.
This means you can set the two dates and say, Backup the Hourly Files, then do a Delete on the Hourly
Files in the same period, then do a Backup on the Daily Files and then Delete those too, all with one
setting for the Start and End Dates.
Note: You can’t enter a date in the current month, only full elapsed months can be worked on. Also, if
you want to work with Weekly, Monthly or All Files the Start Date MUST be the first day in a month.
Set Path
You will not need to use this option, it is intended for future expansion and is not required in this release
of the Backup Utility.
Info
This option provides a window which shows the Start and End Dates (if they have been set) spelled out
with the names of the day and the month so that you can see exactly which two dates you have entered.
It also shows how many days there were between the two dates, so you can see how many days worth of
data would be affected by a Backup or Delete action.
Quit
The Quit option from the main menu causes a sub-menu with two options on it to appear. These two
options are
R e m a i n
and
Q u i t
.
R e m a i n
will keep you in the Backup Utility (in case you have selected Quit from the main menu in
error), and the
Q u i t
option will leave the Backup Utility, and the ACD system will re-start.
Note: Remember to put the Norstar back into the Normal service mode once the ACD system
has reset itself, and if it is during your normal working hours, instruct your Agents to log
back in.
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