Archive Recover Tool
Archive/Recover is
a plug-in module for Contact Plus
Professional contact management software.
With Archive/Recover you can archive old
contact databases and events to free up
disk space and make Contact Plus
Professional run faster. As you operate
CPPRO new events and contacts are added
on a daily basis. Additionally when you
run a mail/merge and store a history of
the merge you may be adding hundreds of
new events to the event.db table. Over
the years, this can cause your database
to become sluggish. Why store old events
in your database if you don't need to
access them all of the time? Instead use
Archive/Recover which enables you to
conveniently archive your old databases
and events and quickly recover them if
needed.
There are two options
available: (1) Database archive - an
entire database including all contacts,
notes, events can be archived and cleared
out of your main database system and (2)
Event archive - events based on a range
of dates and types may be archived in
order to clear out the event.db
table.
Archive/Recover is ideal
for long-time users of CPPRO who wish to
periodically clean out their database
with the option of recovering the data at
a future time.
- View the short
6-minute video tutorial
available which will explain the
functions.
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Purchase Recover/Archive for Contact
Plus Professional - price good for both
single/multi user versions
Note that this plugin is
for Contact Plus Professional
only!
Technical Info on
Event Archival: Only the event
records are archived. Letters or
documents attached to an event are not
archived. Events are about 424 bytes in
length (at a minimum) and there are 4
different maintained indexes. If an event
contains a long description then the
length of the event will be longer than
424 bytes. The excess description over
and above the 424 bytes is stored in the
event.mb file. As the number of events
increase you may notice a slowdown in
adding, editing and looking up events.
The archival process simply moves the
events from the main event.db table to an
arevent.db table which is not used by
CPPRO during normal operation. The
event.db table will NOT decrease in size
without also performing the PACK
operation.
Note to Smart
Merge users: This utility is not
compatible with Smart Merge. However,
even if you're a Smart Merge user you can
still make use of the Archive/Restore
functions but you'll have to make sure
that Smart Merge has been performed
before archiving or restoring. Until the
new backup had been sent to users in the
field they cannot make any changes to
their contact/event
information.
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