Use the following Tip AT YOUR OWN RISK! I apologize for the caps but we are not responsible for any loss whatsoever for following the tips on our site. If we do not personally do work for you, then we recommend that you only let a proven professional technician touch your computers. Choose a technician with at least 10 years of hands on experience.
The RapidFire Point of Sale system was designed to allow the #2 computer to become the #1 computer in the event of a software or hardware failure on the #1. There are intended to be nightly copies of some files from the #1 to the #2 computer.
This basically works except that as is discussed in the SafeGuard tip corruption on the #1 can propagate to the #2 and then you have a big problem. Plus in the event of a catastrophe like a fire your customer list could be gone forever. DOS backup routines to tape drive or zip drives were not made available by the RapidFire Vendors but have always been available. One thing you can do today is use a product like Fastlynx , http://sewelldirect.com/fastLynx3.aspx , and through a serial port, while all computers are out in DOS, you can backup your #1 computer to a Windows PC on a regular basis and then you can burn this to a cd or save to a file server etc off site and you are protected better. I don't recommend using the #1 parallel port for a backup as that is where your software key is and I recommend that the software key is touched as little as possible.
If you want to keep your existing RapidFire system then please call us - 636-939-1400.
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