Getting to know
Ad Eagle Suite

Within the administration area there is a button that reads 
"Backup Configurations". 

When you click this button you will be brought to the Backup Menu where you can set the frequency that the system completely backs up your banner data files. You can also do a backup whenever you wish simply by clicking the "Back Up Files Now" button. When you click this button you will be returned to the main menu, and see a message stating that the backup script has been executed and that you should receive an email in a few moments.

Although you can set backups to every "N" hours, we recommend that you set this to "24" unless your site has extremely high traffic, especially if you have a lot of ads in your system.

The email that you receive each time a backup is executed gives you details on the backup, such as how many files were backed-up, a listing of the files in each rotation, and if there were any files that were bad. If there were bad files, they will be listed in the email under the heading "File Errors Fixed:". The email will also tell you if there were any errors found that could not be corrected.

Normally the error sections will be empty.

In the Backup Configuration area you can also turn on and off your automatic backups. Having it on makes the system perform a little extra work, and so if you are satisfied with doing the backups yourself, or if you have the ability to use cron on your system, you should leave it off.

When daily backups are turned on, as long as a banner is called within the hour that you have set as the hour to do the backups, it will be executed. So if you have it set to midnight (12am) and a visitor hits a page with a banner on it between 12am and 1am the backup will be done. It will only be executed once.

If you have auto backups set and your site goes through a period of no traffic during the hour that the backup was supposed to be execute, your data will not be backed up until the following day. If you believe this has happened, enter the backup config area and click the "Backup Files Now" button. This will get things running properly again. 

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