Tutorial

These instructions assume that you have already successfully completed parts 1 through 5 of the JAS tutorial.

Part 11: Creating Timed Back-up Files

Tutorial parts 1 through 5 showed you some of the valuable functions of JAS while performing a local job for data analysis. This portion of the tutorial will build on that knowledge by showing you how to create timed back-up files.

To reduce potential loss of work, JAS offers a timed backup of text files that you generate while processing jobs (i.e. Source code files). This option is not selected by default.

To select it you need to generate the options dialog, shown below, by choosing the 'Options...' item from the 'View' menu. Then select the Timed Backup pane and specify the following:
  • Select the timed backup option check box
  • Specify the time (in minutes) between backups. For this tutorial specify 5 minutes
  • Specify the directory for backup files. This directory must exist. If it does not exist already then you need to create it.

 

The files will be saved in the selected directory according to the same name they normally have.  Unnamed files will be saved according to their hash code (an integer that should be different for each page).  You may wish to clean out this directory periodically.

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