Backing up your VisualGA database is critical. Each week, your network administrator should verify that VisualGA is backing up correctly. The location of the backup will be on the server hosting VisualGA. Under Scheduled Tasks, there should be a scheduled task that states “VisualGA Backup”. Open this task to locate where the backup is being performed. This will be in the “Run” command and will be in the following format:
"C:\program files\visualga\visualga.exe" backup "D:\BackupFolder\VisualGA" del loc
D:\BackupFolder\VisualGA is the location of the backup. Look in this folder to verify VisualGA has been backing up successfully. We recommend that you set the task to run as the SYSTEM account to eliminate the need for keeping passwords synchronized when running the task under a standard user account.
If your township also attaches documents with Visualga, we strongly suggest you back up the \\(your server)\VisualGA\Attachments folder. The argument del tells VisualGA to delete backups older than 7 days. The argument loc tells VisualGA to use the SQL Server backup folder as the initial backup location, and then copy this to the ultimate backup destination. You must use this argument when the ultimate backup destination is on another computer. |