Creating Backups

 

As a helper's database continues to grow, there will be a need to create backups of the entire database. One way of creating such a backup would be to copy and paste the database to a folder and (if needed), rename accordingly. The Malware Helper Workflow Tool has an in-built backup utility that can take care of this backup.

The backup utility does the following:

  1. Ask the helper whether or not they would like to allocate a special folder to create the backups
  2. if yes, then a folder will need to be allocated, if not, the current working directly will be used
  3. Because the Malware Helper Workflow Tool uses its own naming system for the backups, the folder will be searched for pre-existing backups, and the new backup will be named accordingly.

Creating Backup Message

 

The backups are given the file name: xxx Data DD-MM-YYYY.db.bak

xxx A triple digit number from 1 to 999, used for sorting backups (through Windows) in chronological order
DD Double digit day of the month the backup was created
MM Double digit month of the year the backup was created
YYYY Quadruple digit year the backup was created

Note that misnumbering of the triple digit (xxx) may cause the newly created backup to be mislabeled, and may cause an error in backing up the file.

If all labelling slots (1 through to 999) are reached, then the following error message appears:

Backup Error Message

As explained in the warning, the naming system has now been changed to Data DD-MM-YYYY.db.bak (the triple digit labelling slot has been dropped).

To restore the backup, rename the backup in question to Data.db and replace it with the existing data.db file. Note that if no data.db file exists, the backup can still be used to 'save' your settings, speeches, and topics. If done right, no startup error message should appear. Make sure the Malware Helper Workflow Tool is not running when the backup is being restored.