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Chapter 6 Maintain the System
Regular Maintenance
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and StepOnePlus
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Real-Time PCR Systems
Installation, Networking, and Maintenance Guide
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Archive and Back Up Data
Develop a strategy that addresses the following data management issues for the
instrument.
Check Disk
Space Regularly
If you perform real-time experiments on your system, or collect real-time data for
genotyping experiments, check the available space on your hard drive weekly. When the
hard drive is within 20% of maximum capacity, transfer the older data to a backup
storage device.
Archive Older
Experiments
Conserve space on the computer hard drive by using a data compression utility to archive
unused or older experiments. Several commercially available compression utilities are
available, such as the PKZIP and ARC archive formats common to the Microsoft
®
Windows
®
operating system.
Back Up
Experiments
Regularly
Back up the experiments generated by your system to:
• Protect against potential data loss of data caused by an unforeseen failure of the
computer or its hard drive(s).
• Conserve space on the hard drive and to optimize performance, if you remove old
data after backing up.
See “Select Protective Hardware and Software” on page 7 for more information on
backup storage devices.
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