VSys One: Volunteer Management Software

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Data Backup

VSys Administrators are responsible for ensuring the system database is intact in the event of an emergency, hardware failure, or just to move it to another location. Backing up the database is critical in any of these situations and it should be performed on a regular basis.

If you use GMS as well as VSys, be sure you always use VSys for your backups, as VSys backups fully back up both VSys and GMS data. GMS backups have only limited VSys information and cannot restore your complete VSys data.

Steps in this task

  1. Open Data backup from the Administrator tools panel under Backup/restore.
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By default, all of the tables except for "trace", "voxilogs" and "zips" are selected to be backed up. With the exception of those tables, you'll generally want to back up all of your tables.

  1. Select your options.

Field Names

Definitions and Comments

For portrait photos, only back up photos added recently

Check to include a person's photos that you added recently. If you check this, VSys will let you enter the date range that you consider "current". Note the backup file created then may be missing important data, such as the older, existing images that weren't in the date range.

Omit scanned form images and comment photos

Check to leave out scanned images associated with certifications and any images attached to comments. Note the backup file created then may be missing important data. All comments and scanned certification images would be excluded.

Split multiple files if one file would exceed a specific size

Check to break the backup into multiple files if the backup file is very large and exceeds the size you specify in the Maximum size field. You must archive all of the files that VSys makes here in order to restore the backup later.

Use advanced encryption

Creates backups where the underlying tables are encrypted using AES 256 within the .zip file. Only VSys One version 3.1 and higher can restore these backups.

Comments

Anything you need to note about this backup.

  1. Enter the name of your backup file in the Backup file to create field. You can use the Linked Graphic icon to browse to the appropriate folder.
  2. To begin the backup process, click the Run button. VSys will indicate its progress as it backs up individual tables.
  3. When done, a message will be displayed showing that the data was successfully backed up along with the name and size of your backup file.

VSys backups made in any version of VSys without "Encrypt this backup" or "Use maximum compression" checked are all compatible with other versions of VSys. If "Encrypt this backup" is checked, a backup can only be restored by the same version of VSys: older versions don't use the same encryption method.

Magic: When VSys One makes a backup, it stores the data as embedded NexusDB tables. VSys can restore these tables to any of its compatible databases. This means you can use the backup/restore process to make a backup on one system in NexusDB, then restore it under SQL Server. Or go from SQL Server to NexusDB. VSys treats them all alike.

See Also

Tools

Apply Certification Automatic Creation Rules

Attachments Analyzer

Automatically Create Eligibility/Intake Checklists

Bulk Value Updater

Check for Duplicated IDs

Check for Zip/Postal Code Updates

Concurrent Users Monitor

Create and Manage Data Encryption Keys

Database Merge Tool

Enter VSys One Registration Codes

Find Duplicate Assignments

Find Duplicate E-mail Addresses

Find Overlapping Volunteer Hours

Fix Recurring Assignment Detail Gaps

Index Update Tool

Letters Purge Tool

License Information

Make a Local Backup of VSys One in Another Folder

Photo Resize Tool

Purge Old Trace Records

Recalculate the Bonus Hours for Volunteer Hours

Recalculate the Value of Volunteer Hours

Restore From a Backup

Special Table Tools

SQL Commands to Database

Table Permissions Diagnostics

Trace Analyzer