The following information was received from Alan Holtz who asked me to add it to my FAQ page. It has to do with seemingly random data corruption in all versions of the Advantage and Premier products. Armor has been recommending high buffer settings for years, and that was fine in the old days before there were so many additional levels of disk caching and ultra-high speed processors. Nowadays, activating large numbers of buffers does not improve speed one wit, and data sometimes gets stuck in the buffers and doesn't get written to disk. We have fixed MANY problem installations with this simple change and we would really like to get the word out to dealers and users.
Backups are just as important as the input of the data.
You should have a different tape for each day of the week except Friday. You should have five tapes for Friday. This way you maintain the ability to get back a day, two days or a week if necessary. At the end of each month, a separate tape should be used and it should be stored as the month end backup and will not be used again until next year. Then there is the year end backup which never gets re-used.