Updated : May 2008

An alternative backup method - A must read!

Some brokers say "Yes, we do backups every night so I'm ok!" 

This is usually nine times out of ten a true statement, but for the few that have had to access their backups because of a bad sector on their hard drive, power outages, or locked files from people still in a terminal server connection that damaged a database, or for any other reason, that having a temporary backup BRODAYMONTHYEAR.RAR file is the safety parachute that one hopes that they never need to use but is there in case you need it.

If you are a local tech applying this Power Broker upgrade, please confirm with the customer that it's ok to take the time to do an alternative Winrar backup of the \BRO directory before applying this upgrade.

If you are a customer that does your own upgrades, click here and download and install Winrar and Winrar your entire \BRO directory into a file such as J:\BACKUPBRO\BROMAY142005.RAR as an example.
( To install Winrar, Click the 'Click Here,  click 'Run, Install, OK, Done, and close the window that it automatically opens.)

Note:  Everyone will need to Exit Power Broker while this backup is being done.

To do this, you would open Windows Explorer, and find the \BRO directory, right click over \BRO folder and choose "Add to Archive".  When the next window opens, change the Archive name to a format of:

BRO
Month
Day
Year
.RAR

Click OK.

Example of an Archive Winrar Screen.