Backing up your Data
The importance of backing up your data each day cannot be over emphasised. It's equally important to check that you can restore from your backup.
You must keep in mind that the purpose for doing a backup is to be able to restore that backup in the event of a disaster. There have been occasions when people have religiously backed up daily, only to find that when the disaster occurs they are unable to restore their last backup owing to some minor problem - such as faulty disks, bad tapes etc.
How to test your backup
We recommend that you periodically test that you can restore from your backup. One way you could test this is by restoring your practice database to a home computer.
Scheduled Backups During the Day
- On the workstation you wish to back up to , create a batch file in the pracsoft folder. This batch file should contain the following command:
rebuild p:\pracsoft\database\pracsoft.mdb c:\backup\pracsoft.mdb
- You may create a shortcut and run this batch file manually, or include it to be run by your timed scheduler.
NB: the c:\backup folder will need to already exist before running this. Download the latest from our Web Site.
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