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Time Guardian v4.0 User’s Guide 5-1
Chapter 5: Time Guardian System Backup
Time Guardian provides an automatic backup that can be activated at the time of installation or
added at a later date by selecting the Setup menu from the Main menu, and selecting the
Wizard submenu. From the Setup Wizard click the Login tab and click the Backup
Information
icon and the following Backup Information screen will appear:
Backups are automatically created in the “Backup” folder located under the program directory
unless designated otherwise. Backup files are archived .zip format and can be extracted back
to the Time Guardian folder should corruption occur.
 When the Time Guardian Backup is created on the local PC, it is advised that a copy of the
Backup be saved to floppy disk, network drive or another medium to protect against
catastrophic computer failure.
Each file will be named “backup”, along with the date the file was created.
As seen in the figure above, a Backup requires you to select the “Backup Start Day.” Your
options are: Sunday through Saturday. It also requires you to enter “Number of Backup Files to
be rotated.” This number is currently limited to twenty-five (25) files. From that day forward to
the first day of the next period, Time Guardian will automatically create a new Backup file. Time
Guardian will create seven files every week, each being overwritten until the last day of the
week.
Using the settings below, Time Guardian will create the first Backup on Monday and append
this record every time the software is opened, until the following Monday. A new Backup record
will then be created. This process will continue until seven weeks of Backup records have been
created. At this time, the next Backup to be created will replace the first Backup record
completely. The process will then repeat itself.