Hi
I was wondering if anyone fancied throwing some ideas about for a new
task I've been set.
I'll say now I'm by no means an Access guru, so please bear that in
mind.
Basically I have been asked to create some form of database, that will
log wether a server successfully back-up or not and then will create a
report of it for month end etc.
I have the format of how I want it to work, but the thing is we
back-up every day (aren't we good! :) )
Now I can do it for one day, it is recreating it for the other 364
days of the year I am stuck with!!
Basically I have a flat table, listing the 5 servers with a failed
tick box and a comment box.
So every morning I want to open up the database, have that days log
appear (with the 5 servers listed and date displayed) tick which ones
failed and save it.
And that is it, then produce a simple report at the end of the month.
Is there a way of automating a new table everyday (I say table but it
can't be the answer doing a new table for every day?!)
So there we have it, I'll start trying a few things out but any ideas
are very welcome.
Thanks guys
Regards
Stewart 3 1205
In message <41**************************@posting.google.com >, Stramec
<st***********@hotmail.com> writes I have the format of how I want it to work, but the thing is we back-up every day (aren't we good! :) )
Now I can do it for one day, it is recreating it for the other 364 days of the year I am stuck with!!
Basically I have a flat table, listing the 5 servers with a failed tick box and a comment box.
If you are always going to have 5 servers then you can create a single
table with 5 YES/NO columns, one for each server, and one column for the
date and one for comments. Create a form, set its data-entry property to
Yes. Set the default value for the date column to now() -1 so that it
gets yesterday's date.
When the form opens it will display yesterday's date and an empty
check-box for each server. So every morning I want to open up the database, have that days log appear (with the 5 servers listed and date displayed) tick which ones failed and save it.
And that is it, then produce a simple report at the end of the month.
Is there a way of automating a new table everyday (I say table but it can't be the answer doing a new table for every day?!)
So there we have it, I'll start trying a few things out but any ideas are very welcome.
Thanks guys
Regards
Stewart
--
Bernard Peek
London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author. Will work for money.
Let me ask a few questions here first.
What means are you using to backup each server? Is there a log file for
that process or better is it a scheduled task?
If so, you probably want to work towards automation, but that will require
some VBA which might be more advanced than what your interested in.
Here's how I might tackle something like this. One table:
RecordID (autonumber)
ServerName (text)
BackupDate (date)
Completed (yes/no)
Write a record for each server and each date. How to automate the record
write will depend on how you are performing your backups.
Hope that gets you started,
Pat
"Stramec" <st***********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:41**************************@posting.google.c om... Hi
I was wondering if anyone fancied throwing some ideas about for a new task I've been set.
I'll say now I'm by no means an Access guru, so please bear that in mind.
Basically I have been asked to create some form of database, that will log wether a server successfully back-up or not and then will create a report of it for month end etc.
I have the format of how I want it to work, but the thing is we back-up every day (aren't we good! :) )
Now I can do it for one day, it is recreating it for the other 364 days of the year I am stuck with!!
Basically I have a flat table, listing the 5 servers with a failed tick box and a comment box.
So every morning I want to open up the database, have that days log appear (with the 5 servers listed and date displayed) tick which ones failed and save it.
And that is it, then produce a simple report at the end of the month.
Is there a way of automating a new table everyday (I say table but it can't be the answer doing a new table for every day?!)
So there we have it, I'll start trying a few things out but any ideas are very welcome.
Thanks guys
Regards
Stewart
thanks for the response guys.
I think I will steer clear of the automate VBA writing at this time. Company
likes it to be done manually just to make sure it all went ok.
I'll have a go at the form and go from there.
I assume writing a report from the form is a simple matter of a filter on
the yes/no field?
cheers
"Bernard Peek" <ba*@shrdlu.com> wrote in message
news:gW**************@shrdlu.com... In message <41**************************@posting.google.com >, Stramec <st***********@hotmail.com> writes
I have the format of how I want it to work, but the thing is we back-up every day (aren't we good! :) )
Now I can do it for one day, it is recreating it for the other 364 days of the year I am stuck with!!
Basically I have a flat table, listing the 5 servers with a failed tick box and a comment box.
If you are always going to have 5 servers then you can create a single table with 5 YES/NO columns, one for each server, and one column for the date and one for comments. Create a form, set its data-entry property to Yes. Set the default value for the date column to now() -1 so that it gets yesterday's date.
When the form opens it will display yesterday's date and an empty check-box for each server.
So every morning I want to open up the database, have that days log appear (with the 5 servers listed and date displayed) tick which ones failed and save it.
And that is it, then produce a simple report at the end of the month.
Is there a way of automating a new table everyday (I say table but it can't be the answer doing a new table for every day?!)
So there we have it, I'll start trying a few things out but any ideas are very welcome.
Thanks guys
Regards
Stewart
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