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Automating Preventive Maintenance

There are software-related preventive maintenance activities that we will automate. We use system tools that automatically run programs at a specific time, we set up your system to perform various software checks and maintenance activities without having to remember to do them yourself.  We can't set up your PC to perform hardware-related maintenance (cleaning, adjustments, etc.) automatically.

We set your maintenance routines to run during the time you are not around. Some people run these routines overnight, but we save that time for doing backups when its needed. Some of the activities we set to run automatically:

• Checking the file system for errors.
• Checking all hard disks for read errors.
• Scanning all hard disks and files for viruses.
• De-fragmentation of all hard disk volumes.

Backup can be automated as well. For example, you can use a program scheduler to automatically duplicate files or directories on a nightly basis. Proper full backups cannot be truly automated because they require the backup media to be changed regularly. However, you can still "semi-automate" them; what we mean by this is that you can start the backup before you go to bed and it will be done in the morning, with basically no intervention required while it is taking place. To do this though, you need backup media large enough to hold everything you are backing up. This is a major reason why we thing using large-capacity backup media is very important.

Preventive Maintenance Schedule and Summary

Media Retention - Media Size Matching - Media Tradeoffs
Backup - data loss - Disaster Recovery - Preventative Maintenance
Disk errors - Disk quality - Defrag - Virus detection - Virus Scanning - Infections

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