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remember that it is your full responsibility to prevent data loss by using backups, uninterruptible power
supplies, reliable hardware, and a well-tuned installation of Windows. Oh, did we mention that you
should do regular backups?
So, now you know. If you check the Table Password Protection checkbox and hit Apply/Reapply, the
Server's tables become encrypted on the Server's disk. You can leave the checkbox checked (assuming
it already was in that state) and hit Apply/Reapply again, in which case it will re-encrypt everything with
a different password. To decrypt the tables, uncheck the checkbox and – guess what – hit the
Apply/Reapply button.
This concludes the topic on Alventis Security Model and Implementation.
2.14
Server Administration
This chapter is only relevant to Remote Servers. Local Server doesn't have any settings we are going to
discuss here.
Aside from Database maintenance, if you insist, which for the Local Server is performed directly in the
Database Explorer form.
Server Administration is performed in the 4 last tab sheets of the Administration form. The first 3 tab
sheets are dedicated to Alventis Security and have been dealt with in the Security and Administration
chapter.
The Databases tab sheet is remarkably simple.
Name is the name of the Remote Database. This is what appears in the Location column in the
Databases grid of the Database Explorer form for Remote Databases. You can't change it for an existing
Database.
Path is the physical file system path to the directory on the Server where the Database's data tables are
located. This path is specified relative to the Server application. That is, it is the Server that will be
resolving it from its "point of view". Let's illustrate this with an example. Imagine we have the Server
running on a computer called Alpha, which has (or will end up having) a Database in the directory
C:\ServerData. Imagine that were are administering this Server from Alventis running on another
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