Monthly Maintenance Schedule

Recommended monthly maintenance includes tasks like backing up your data, cleaning your tape drive, and running a monthly circulation statistics report.

Monthly Tasks

Task

Purpose

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Run any monthly reports that you want.

Note: You can set up Day End to generate reports automatically.

Prints various kinds of reports, such as hold lists for patrons and staff, circulation statistics, and so on.

Day End and AdHoc Reports .

Refer to the documentation for the specific reports that you want to run.

Check your database free space.

Shows the amount of free space in your database.

Refer to the documentation for your specific database.

Check your server free space.

Shows the amount of free space on your server.

Refer to the documentation for your specific operating system.

Back up your operating system.

Note: Check the log file to verify that the backup completed successfully.

Creates a monthly backup of your operating system.

Refer to the documentation for your specific operating system.

Delete any old or unused files or directories from the server.

Frees up server space by eliminating old, unnecessary files. Speeds up overall server performance.

Refer to the documentation for your specific operating system.

 


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