Step 27: Do A Backup Before Continuing

We recommend that you backup the school's information before transferring to the new school year. You should archive the school's data from the current year. These backups should be labelled as the data for the previous year and then placed in storage.

Backing Up and Restoring Data

To make backups of your data, choose File, Maintenance, Backup System. Then click the Backup tab. Click the Source and locate the file from the Destination tree (e.g. A: drive). The title of the backup defaults to the date, but you can change it by typing in a new title in the space provided. When you are ready click Start.

Any school using Classroom Manager in the 1999-2000 school year must archive its database before using Classroom Manager in the 2000-2001 school year. Archiving the database will move the existing database, located in the Classroom Manager directory, to the Archive directory under the Classroom Manager directory. The archived database will then be name based on today's date using the following format mmddyyyy.mcm.