You have TuneBacker on your system? Terrific. You made an excellent decision to include it, because it can save your bacon if your main hard drive ever fails or you or a staffer accidentally erases important files. But are you using TuneBacker?
Occasionally users mistakenly think that if TuneBacker is a part of their system, the backups are just automatically happening without their having set it up. But there is a tiny amount of user intervention that has to happen before TuneBacker is actually doing its job.
The easiest (and most highly recommended) way to set up TuneBacker is to add a line to your master log that launches it automatically. Simply copy and paste the line below into your master log, at whatever point in the day when you would like the backups to occur:
# Run /boot/home/config/bin/DoBackups &
In Command Center 4.6 and above, it's even simpler:
# DoBackups
We suggest you include the line in the master logs used to create all of your program logs, so the backup happens daily. However you could also opt to just do a backup once-a-week by adding the line to only your Friday log, or Saturday log, or whichever you choose.
Alternatively, you can do a manual backup anytime by double-clicking the DoBackups icon on your desktop. If you don't see the icon, go to your home folder, then the config folder, then the bin folder, right-click on "Do Backups," move your mouse over "Create Link" and left-click on Desktop.
We strongly suggest you swap your two TuneBacker drives routinely; at least once per month, preferably more often. To do so, shut the computer down, use your key to unlock the drive, remove its drawer, slide in the other, engage it by pushing down on the handle, turn the key to horizontal, and power the computer back up. The entire process takes 60 seconds...a minute of your life that is very well spent.
In our next tip, we'll talk about what DoBackups actually does.
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