Does Aerial provide for data security?
A. Yes, definitely, because you can never tell when a computer will fail. If, for example, power is suddenly dropped from a computer while it is in use and files are opened, files can be damaged or destroyed. For this reason, Aerial is constantly doing ‘backups’. Whenever you exit a form, key files are copied to a ‘.Backup’ folder. The same is true when you start or exit the system. During scorekeeping, the roster is copied to a backup after every four scores are entered, or after receiving data from the Event Stations. At startup, Aerial does a complete check of the current database, looking for any corrupt files; if it finds corruption, is automatically restores the latest from the “.Backup” directory. And when Event Stations are used, another level of redundancy is created; you will have meet scores for each event at the Event Stations, as well as at the master scorekeeping station. When preparing for a meet, you can create backup’s of your meet roster simply by ‘dragging’ your meet
