Acorn Communicator Filestore Manager's Guide

`Insurance'
The best 'insurance' against losing information, whether due to users'
mistakes, power cuts or unwanted interference, is to take regular copies of
the information on floppy discs (see Making backups in Chapter 3). Do this at
the same time each day, ideally before shutting down, and store these
security copies in a safe place.
Coping with Most problems involving loss of information can be remedied by copying
problems back the last version of the file(s) affected, from the backup copies you will
make on a daily basis.
Refer to Appendix 2 for guidance on coping with problems.
Adding users When a new user comes on to Econet they can initially share another user's
id, but a more satisfactory solution is to give them their own id, user directory
and space. See Adding a user in Chapter 3, Management facilities.
Removing users When an established user leaves, you will probably want to remove their user
id and files. See Removing a user in Chapter 3, Management facilities.
Managing discs If your system includes a hard disc, you will probably not use the floppy disc
drives for users' files, as the hard disc is much faster and has a much higher
capacity. This means that the password file, library and utilities directories
and user directories will all be on the hard disc. You will then use the floppy
disc drives mainly for copying files to and from the hard disc, for security
copies and transporting files to other sites.
If your system does not include a hard disc, the simplest way to operate
FileStore is to keep the password file, library and utilities directories on a
single disc, which you will always use in the lefthand drive. The most
frequently used user directories can then be placed on this disc and another
disc which will usually be in the righthand drive. If there is enough room for
all the users on these two discs, all well and good. If there is not enough
room, you will need to put some on a third (fourth, fifth ...) disc, which you
will need to insert in the righthand drive when those users need access. (You
choose which disc to put users on at the time you create them, as described
below.)
8 2 THE FILESTORE MANAGER'S ROLE