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 Introducing PTWin32 |
Life is full of
unintended consequences and the administration of a PTWin32 installation is no
exception. In order to make things simple people often take a broad brush
approach to solutions. Often this is the best course of action but sometimes
your broad brush will paint something inadvertently.
Something you would rather have left alone. Consider the
following scenario: You are a good and true PTWin32 user who makes regular
backups of your data. One day there is a power surge and failure that hopelessly
corrupts some of your PTWin32 data. You go to your
backups and instead of hunting and pecking to determine which tables are corrupt
you restore the entire \Data directory. Then you discover only the Parcel table
was corrupt. All non-parcel work
done since the last backup is gone and must be redone. This can be compounded if
you’ve chosen to modify the fields that appear on the Additional
Info and Permit Info tabs of PTWin32 windows since the last backup. Most people don’t
consider things like selection values, custom fields, fee schedules, system
settings, and security data when restoring from backup, but these things do
represent data stored in your PTwin32 tables.
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