Data Management and Disaster Recovery

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Data management is important. Users working in the IT industry will be well aware the extent companies go to protect data from corruption and loss.

Using the Backup and Restore option offers protection from mistakes like inadvertently Deleting the Last Race, or changing something for a whole series, and forgetting how you arrived at the mistake. In these cases, you can restore to the point of the last save.

Backing up the data to the computer hosting TopYacht will not give immunity to disasters like

  • Theft of the computer
  • It being dropped
  • A “Disk Crash”
  • Virus Infection
  • or getting drenched

 

It is the responsibility of the Licensee to ensure data management procedure are put in place that are robust and audited for compliance.

When a computer malfunctions or otherwise comes to an unfortunate end, fast recovery, especially at a large regatta is important. Competitors are interested in outcomes, and not the traumas experienced by the result management team.

Apart from the TopYacht executable, for recovery, the key people must know and (more importantly) have access to the components of TopYacht that are essential and unique to the user club. This is limited to:

  • The data base;
  • web templates (if you have written your own)
  • and .css files if the user chooses to modify the web-site colour scheme from the TopYacht standard.

Click HERE to Download the document (~ 4 pages)