Summit SafeGuard
Do you:
- Always compact and repair all your updated Summit data files every day?
- Always compact and repair all your Summit data files immediately after any system or network problem or failure?
- Only backup your Summit data files after making sure that they have compacted cleanly?
- Always backup your Summit data files any day that you have changed the information in them?
If you can answer Yes to all of the above questions, or you wouldn't really mind re-entering a day's work, a week's work, or maybe a few month's or even year's work, then read no further. If, however, you're not prepared to lose everything, read on.
Why Use Summit SafeGuard?
In a perfect world, file corruption would never take place.
In the real world, however, file corruption can be caused by many things, including computer crashes and hangs, power surges and faulty networking hardware and/or software. The file that becomes corrupt might be a Summit data file, or another Microsoft Access data file.
You should use Summit SafeGuard because of the problems related to preventing and treating corruption in Microsoft Access files.
Summit SafeGuard was specifically designed to address the following problems:
People don't compact their Summit data files (or other Microsoft Access 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 you have to go round the office, making sure nobody else has the file open before you can compact it.
Unfortunately, this means that their data files just keep getting larger and more fragmented, which in turn makes them more likely to become corrupted. Because people often do not know they have a corruption, and continue to use the file, they run the risk of graduating from having a file with a minor, relatively easy to fix corruption to a severely corrupted file with a complete, irretrievable 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 nominated time every day after you've all gone home. Every file on your list is compacted every day and you get a full report of what's happened.
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, the fact that no data has been lost means that specialist data recovery companies, such as PK Solutions have a much better chance of recovering 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 it's compact and backup cycle.
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