Backup and Verify

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Backup and Verify

The importance of backing up your Datacon system each and every day that your office is open, cannot be stressed enough. You should have a clearly labeled backup media for each day of the week and maintain a strict rotation schedule. Using this method prevents good backups from being overwritten by a unsuccessful or “bad” backup. Don’t take a chance with your data, back up daily and ensure that the process is verified.

Standard Steps

Place backup media in the drive
SELECT “Backup” from Main Menu
SELECT “Start Backup Now” or “Start Backup Later”
If backing up “Later”, be sure to double check that the “A.M.” or “P.M.” is correct!
If backing up “Later”, your screen will not be usable until the (now) scheduled backup is completed.
After the backup is completed, check the results of the last backup verification.

Alpha Micro Servers

• SELECT “Backup” from the Main Menu and review the information on screen.
• “Last backup”, “Last verify” and “Created” should all have the same dates listed.
• If there were any “Hard Errors” or “Soft Errors”, please contact our Customer Support Team for assistance.

Mac Servers

• SELECT “Backup” from the Main Menu and review the information on screen “Last backup”, and the 4 dates down the left side of the screen (referenced as “Started”, “Copying”, “Creating” and “Completed”) should all have the same dates listed.
• If you backup utilizing a CD or DVD, your media should eject on its own upon completion of your backup. If this media is not ejected you can SELECT “Eject backup media” from the Backup screen to retrieve your backup.

All Servers

• Remove your backup from the office and keep offsite until the next good backup is ready to replace it.
• It is a good idea to archive a monthly backup, stored offsite.

A new feature included in the Version 3.6 update is the ability to see the complete history of
your backups. Simply SEARCH at the Main Menu for Backup and SELECT Review Backup
Log. This feature gives you a nice historical overview of your backup history.

Offsite Backup

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Offsite Backup Service

by Duane de Long

We have received several inquiries regarding offsite backup services, particularly for those of you using digital imaging systems.

We are pleased to announce that we are now partnering with Data Deposit Box, a major offsite backup service provider. This additional security for your system data is available for a very reasonable monthly rate of $2 per GB.

This service is available for clients with Mac servers, as well as for PC peer servers storing digital xrays. (Or any workstation that you would like files backed up from!)

Offsite backup is not an option for Alpha Micro servers. For clients utilizing a Mac Pro server for their Datacon system and digital imaging software, all data will automatically be backed up daily and stored offsite.

Please give Jay de Long a call if this service is of interest to you.