Plant Equipment Inc. is a 999-service company that receives constant customer calls. These calls are logged into an Access database. The on-line Backup and Purge utility BAP performs a scheduled as well as instance driven backup of out-dated calls and purges the database. The utility also has a facility for restoring the archived data. The tools/platforms used for BAP utility are as follows:

• Visual Basic Front-end on Win 95/98/NT platforms. Microsoft Access as database.