The use of multiple removable disk cartridges to store your valuable data is considered a best practice. Cartridge rotation involves removing the active cartridge from the cartridge dock and inserting another cartridge and storing the removed cartridge in a safe off-site location until you are ready to do the next rotation. This software can create a reminder for you to rotate your cartridges (Rotation tab). The software gives you the flexibility of creating virtually any kind of rotation scheme to best suit your needs.


You could create a cartridge rotation scheme based solely on the number of cartridges you believe is sufficient for your needs. For example, you may simply want to create an "Everything" protection plan (Start tab) that will store all of your local hard drive data to a cartridge. You could then use a separate cartridge for each day that you run the protection plan and have a complete backup of your system each day. Another option may be to create a three-cartridge rotation scheme where the first and last day of your backup cycle use a cartridge specifically for those days and the third cartridge is used in between those days.


You could create a cartridge rotation scheme based on the types of files you have stored on your system and designate specific cartridges for specific protection plans. This can be helpful if you have different kinds of data that can naturally be divided among two or more cartridges. For example, if you have a large amount of fixed content data such as music, images, video, etc., you may wish to use a cartridge solely for the purpose of storing those types of files. Depending on how frequently you add to these file types, or change these files, you might need to use this cartridge only once a week or less often. Other cartridges can be used for your dynamic content files such as one cartridge for Customers A - L and one cartridge for Customers M - Z.