In Softvision Explorer, planned operations allow periodically executing several tasks  (backup, sending messages, etc.) completely automatically. You must specify the type and time when each operation must be executed.
 

Let's take a detailed look at the tasks that can be planned:

Complete Backup, Partial Backup and Image Backup: the first type of backup is analogous to that created by the Manual Backup (function, so long as the item "Include Image Files" is not deactivated), while an "image backup" will only save user data, without the surfing sessions, and images of documents. The advantage of this latter type of backup is that it is extremely fast (1 or 2 seconds) and doesn't take up a lot of space (typically a few Kb), so that it can also be executed several times a day. A complete backup can even require several tens of Mb. Finally, the latter type of backup saves only images of user documents. The data of the backup is saved in a folder specified by the user, in which three subfolders are created, one for complete backups, one for partial backups and another for the images.  In order to limit the space taken by backup files on disk, you can specify whether or not to delete backups older than a certain number of days.

Archive Compaction: this plans the execution of archive compaction in order to improve system performance.

Enabling/Disabling functions: this type of operation turns Hotspot and VoIP functions on and off on access through login and password and access through pre-paid tickets. For example, with this function it is possible to make Hotspot access available only during certain hours of the day using two planned operations for turning the Hotspot on and off.

Start/Stop Stations: turns the PCs of the surfing stations on (through Wake On Lan) or off.

Notices to Stations: sends a User Notice to the surfing stations.

Archive Clean-Up: deletes some data from the program archive to make it leaner and more efficient. For old sessions, you can delete data for the sites visited (logs), telephone calls and the applications executed. It is also possible to delete users who have not connected in a certain number of days.

Closing old sessions: automatically closes sessions that have been open for a certain number of hours.

Parameter Alignment: this executes a parameter alignment procedure by selecting it from among those available.

SQL Execution: this executes an SQL command on the database. For example, you could write an SQL script that periodically resets the credit of all users by entering the SQL statement:
"Update Users Set Balance=0"

Each of the preceding operations can be executed using the following types of planning:

Every Day: executes the operation at a determined time of the day, every X days and, the operation can even be repeated at regular time intervals up to a certain time of the day.

Every Week/Month: like the preceding but it executes the operation on determined days of the week or month.

Only One Time: the operation will only be executed once, at the indicated date and time.

Upon the start-up or shutdown of the server: the operation is executed when the server is started up or shutdown (when the Server PC is turned on or off).

By using the "Execute Now" button, you can also execute the selected operation immediately without waiting for the set day and time.