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Dealer DataSafe
(DDS) is a software service that provides a complete back up solution
to our Dealer Solutions customers. Without it, our customers must provide
their own method to back up their vital dealership database.
We know from experience, this does not always happen and dealers are
left frantically trying to recreate their database, having lost
weeks, sometimes months, of valuable information.
The
goal of DDS is to provide our dealers with a safe, secure, and
totally hands-free way to back up their database in case of a
hardware failure, theft, or natural disaster. We want
you to be protected so we now include Dealer DataSafe in our Dealer
Solutions Software Suite.
The DDS service consists of two components. The first
component is a client Windows application that runs natively in the
system tray. This client has two primary functions. It
functions as a user interface providing logged information to the
user, and it controls the background processes required for
encryption, backup, and transfer to our secure backup server. The
second component is a server based application that authenticates
the user’s logon information and stores the backup information.
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The Dealer
Data Safe Process
First, we enter you, the user, into the DDS system.
This consists primarily of assigning you a username and
password, entering a time of day to perform the
automatic backup, and creating a folder on our server to
store your backups.
Second, we install the client application on the user’s
system. This application must be installed on each
computer that contains a database for backup. In the
case of a network of computers sharing one database on a
server, the program only needs to be installed on the
server.
The first time you run the DDS program, you will be
prompted for some information. You must enter your
username and password and also find the database on your
system or network that you wish to back up.
You also can optionally choose a folder that will be
zipped and sent to our server for storage any time the
database backup occurs. For instance, you may wish to
select the directory containing pictures of your inventory, or a directory containing important
documents. Any sub-directories will be included in the
back up.
Once
installed, all you need to do is nothing! Your
database will be backed up once a day and sent to our
server. We will notify you if we are not receiving
backups for any reason. |
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