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Creating a maintenance schedule

You create maintenance schedules so that Sage 100 Contractor will perform maintenance tasks (such as checking data integrity, creating backup copies of your company databases, and removing expired backup files and history tables) at a time when no other users are logged into the system.

You can specify a single schedule for all your Sage 100 Contractor companies, or you can use separate schedules for each company. For example, if you need to keep backup files longer for some companies than for others, you can create separate schedules based on the number of weeks of backup to maintain.

Before you start

Determine the best time to perform maintenance for each company (or for all companies).
Decide whether to keep backup files for one, two, three, or four weeks, or to keep only the latest backup (not recommended!). Expired backup files are deleted during nightly maintenance.

You can also keep all backup files, if you prefer.

To create a backup schedule:

Click Schedule Nightly Maintenance >Create Maintenance Schedules.
On the Create Maintenance Schedules tab, select the checkbox beside each company that will follow this maintenance schedule.
From the Select the time for nightly maintenance list, select the time to perform maintenance for these companies.
From the Select the number of backups to keep list, select the period of time to maintain backup files for these companies.
Click [Save Schedule].