This article explores data recovery after events causing data loss and how to mitigate this with GhostPractice
Imagine that your server is damaged by a power surge, or maybe the whole machine is stolen…
Are you ready to handle such a disaster, or will it cause days/weeks/months of productivity losses?
Put your backup plan to the test by answering the following questions.
- Are your GhostPractice and docs/pdfs databases being backed up daily?
- Is your GhostPractice database set to Full Recovery Model?
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- (And your docs/PDFs databases to Simple?)
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- Do backups run at a time that will not clash with the day-end (e.g., 22:00)?
- Is your GhostPractice database logfile being backed up every 3 hours?
- Are your backups stored on a different drive than the one hosting the databases?
- Do you take backups off-site (so that they cannot be stolen along with the server)?
- Do you run manual backups before every month- & year-end?
- Do you store your month-end backups for recovery and audit purposes?
- Do you test your recovery readiness by doing regular test restores of backups?
- Are you running regular database integrity checks on your server?
How did you score? the higher your score, the better your chances of recovering from a disaster!
If you don’t know the answers to these questions, have you asked your IT provider?