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After adding, removing or editing staff members on the Groups and Staff tabs of the Setup > System Configuration > Administration dialog for a network installation of CSA, the system files can be copied to your laptop installation of CSA.
Follow these steps to back up the necessary system data files from the network installation of CSA:
- Choose File > Backup to open the Backup dialog, and select System Data from the drop-down list in the top left corner of the dialog.
- Highlight the Wsw.sys and csa.sys files in the Available pane of the System Data Backup dialog, and then click the Select button to move these items to the Selected pane.
Note: You can hold the CTRL key to highlight more than one item at a time.
- Select a backup location that can be accessed by the laptop installation of CSA (for example, via network drive or removable media). If you need to change the location, click the Change Backup Location button and browse to the proper drive and > or folder. If you are using a floppy disk, make sure that the disk is already in the appropriate drive.
- Click the Backup button.
- Click the Done button to close the Backup Status dialog.
Follow these steps to restore the necessary system data files to the laptop installation of CSA:
- Choose File > Restore to open the Restore dialog, and select System Data from the drop-down list in the top left corner of the dialog.
- If necessary, click the Change Backup Location button to change the backup location to where the files were saved to. This should be the same location as in Step 3 above.
- Highlight the Wsw.sys and csa.sys files in the Available pane of the System Data Restore dialog, and then click the Select button to move these items to the Selected pane.
- Change the backup location to where the file was saved.
- Click the Restore button.
- Click the Done button to close the Restore Status dialog.
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