gomembers plans to present Q, their new association management software (AMS) product, as well as trak solutions product line, including renowned meeting and events planning solution, meetingtrak. “Q incorporates latest advancements in Relationship-focused processing for broad member-based market, while trak demonstrates its industry-leading functionality for meeting and event planning and membership processing needs,” said Tom McGourty, gomembers’ Vice-President of Sales and Marketing.

Holiday Showcase is an annual one-day expo that offers exhibitors opportunity to showcase meeting, business and technology solutions. Attendees and exhibitors get chance to network and also learn about new products and technology available in industry.

For more information on gomembers’ participation in Holiday Showcase and other upcoming gomembers events, please visit our Upcoming Events page.

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Creating a Backup Plan

By Stephen Bucaro

Your company's data may be its most important asset. Imagine a large corporation with millions of dollars of account receivable and account payable data stored on their network. A fire causes massive data loss. How much work would be required to re-create lost data? Without backups, company may not survive disaster.

Choosing a backup media is important, but in this article I'll focus on creating a plan for type and frequency of backups. Let's assume you will use some type of tape backup media.

If your company has only a small amount of data, you may be able to perform a full backup every night. You would need two tapes which you would alternate in case most recent full backup turns out defective. At least you have a previous one to go back to. You would store tapes in a secure off-site location to avoid being destroyed in same disaster that might destroy original data.

When you perform a full backup, each file that gets baked up has "archive" attribute in its file properties set to zero.

The archive attribute is a flag stored for each file that has been created or modified. It indicates that file needs to be archived. Backup programs can reduce size of backups by saving only files which have been modified since previous backup. When file is saved in a full or incremental backup, archive bit is set to one.

In Windows, you can view archive attribute for any file by right-clicking file in Windows Explorer and selecting "Properties" in popup menu. In "Properties" dialog box, click on "Advanced..." button.

If your company has a large amount of data, it would be too time consuming to perform a full backup every night. Instead, you would perform a full backup only on Friday nights, and perform a "differential" backup on other weekday night. This backup plan would require six tapes.