Archive orders to a disc

[Bedspring]

Hello,
can anybody tell me how to Archive all my completed orders to a CD and then delete from my Hard Drive. I want to do this mainly as a security issue but also to free up space on my drive.
Cheers Beds

[Paul Bulpit]

This is what we do: (perform backup first)

Take a snapshot [ File | Snapshot | Export Site ] giving it a name indicating what it contains, saving it into the backups folder.

Using Windows Explorer navigate to the file in the folder & copy to CD.

You now have a copy on your HDD & one on CD.

Click on the oldest order, hold down [Shift] and scroll to the last order that you want to archive (for instance, as we keep six months worth available on screen in case of query, I would go to the last order on 31st December last year) and click that. The page turns highlighted blue.

Press [Delete]

Go to Housekeeping | Purge | Purge Orders - click - then click [OK]

(Take extreme care if you ever need to restore the archive, so as not to overwrite your current data)

[pinbrook]

When I periodically archive actinic data to CD , inc snapshots etc (stuff for accountants, taxman in 5 years time etc) , I also put a exe file of the correct patch for actinic too.

Not much use having saved acd files and no actinic to copy it into

[pnagames]

if you use the mole end processing add on then what you can do is automatically export all the invoices concerned to pdf files to a specific location.

and then batch delete them

(and yes i know this is not a solution within actinic but the mole is excellent for this thing)