Regular archiving of shipment images is required in order to free up disk space on the server. We advise archiving shipment images older than one year. Email customerservice@profittools.net to request your RSYNC credentials.
Login to the scheduler account, open Profit Tools, login as PTADMIN, go to Imaging, Archiving,
Archive Image Settings
- Temporary Target Folder: P:\Profit_Tools\Temp
- Archive Folder: P:\Profit_Tools\Temp\ImageArchive
- Maximum size of archive media: 1024 MB
Archiving Images
- Open FileZilla FTP Client using the desktop shortcut. Email customerservice@profittools.net if you don't see FileZilla FTP Client installed.
- Connect to your FTP account with your credentials.
- Host: ftp://usw-s008.rsync.net
- Username: (Provided by Profit Tools)
- Password: (Provided by Profit Tools)
- Browse to the local site P:\Profit_Tools\Temp
- Browse to the remote site /ImageArchive
- In Profit Tools go to Imaging, Archiving, select the "Archive" tab, specify the shipment range you would like to archive, and select "Copy". This will take about 15+ minutes depending on the number of shipment images being archived.
- Go to FileZilla, refresh the local site to see the newly copied files, right-click on the local archive ex. PTARCHIVE##, and select "Upload" to upload the file to the ImageArchive folder on the remote RSYNC FTP server.
- Wait for the files to finish uploading to the remote RSYNC FTP server, right-click on the local PTARCHIVE## folder and select "Delete".
- Go to Profit Tools, select the volume you just uploaded under the "Delete Images" section, and select the "Delete" button to delete the local images on the server.
- Repeat steps 5-8 until all desired shipments have been archived and uploaded to the remote RSYNC server.
- Close Profit Tools, close FileZilla, and disconnect from the scheduler session when finished.
Downloading Archives
You may need to access the archived images in Profit Tools at a later point. Please use the instructions below to download the shipment image archives back down to the server if they are needed.
- Open FileZilla FTP Client using the desktop shortcut.
- Connect to your FTP account with your credentials.
- Host: ftp://usw-s008.rsync.net
- Username: (Provided by Profit Tools)
- Password: (Provided by Profit Tools)
- Browse to the remote site /ImageArchive
- Download the required shipment image archives to the local site (P:\Profit_Tools\Temp\ImageArchive).
- Remove the local archives from the Temp folder once you are finished with the shipment image archive.