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Routine maintenance

There are a number of routine tasks that need to be carried out regularly once the server is up and running, many of which overlap with those of normal system and network administration:

• taking regular backups
• replying to users' queries
• generating indexes for searchable Web documents

Finally, documents within the server hierarchy must of course be kept up to date, which can be quite a major undertaking. It is advisable to institute a procedure whereby they are inspected at regular intervals, as recommended in Chapter .

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
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