User Guide for Flower Genie 4

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Captions
Flower Genie is designed to display text on button controls and to identify data fields and list contents(Some software packages use icons)
The text you read on a Control is known as a Caption.

About Backups
 Backups are accomplished using the program Backup Program FG091

External Backups
Your backups should be stored on an external disc or device

• Flower Genie works perfectly with Flash Drives (Memory sticks)
  This is a cheap solution for storing backups
• Large External drives are less likely to be lost, but are usually stored on site.
• Small, portable external drives (e.g. with a 2.5in disc) are best as they slip into a pocket or handbag and can be carried at all times
• If you are on a network, you can backup to a server.

Temporary Backups
Another popular technique is to make a periodic backup on your hard disc as you work
Please note that this is in addition to External Backups
Thus if you make a mistake you can use the Restore program and make a recovery.
Do a backup to hard disc when you start Flower Genie. Save (do a backup) your work at regular intervals.
At the end of the session, do a backup to an external device

Flower Genie has been designed to make light work of managing rotational backups.
History of all your backups are stored with date and time stamps using your Data Location Records
Thus when you start to do a backup, the history log will clearly indicate which is the oldest backup in your rotational system, due for overwriting with a new backup.

Restoring data from a Backup
If you have a disc crash, you can easily reload the software again, either form a download or from a CD.
That takes care of the Program Files.
However, you must then restore your data from a backup which has been stored safely on another disc.

If you wish to do a restore then use the program Restore FG093.
The restore program will help you make that vital decision as to which Backup to restore from, by organising your backups in a popup list in reverse date order i.e. with most recent at the top of the list to oldest at the bottom.