And DO NOT make the process difficult, a back up plan that is not usable is just as bad as no back up plan.
I think you just did, lol.
As to the Wikis, I will never use them. While I don't mind and, in fact, enjoy posting on here and helping when possible, I don't have time to do editing, etc. with wikis. When you think about it, I don't think "How To Do Something" lends itself well to wikis. I don't see too many "How to do this and how to do that" in Wikipedia.
I would have to disagree that a small office does not necessarily need RAID. If one is going to invest in the advantages of Client/Server, then one may as well benefit from the advantages of RAID. Large companies have many servers and full time IT personnel to manage them. Their data in critical. Small businesses such as most of us on here have only one of the staff to manage one server. (maybe they have an IT person they hire part time or as needed). But, the data is just as important if not more so. Your patient records and your billing records are mission critical. Having the redundancy of a RAID setup is a great benefit.
Not to get into the topic of RAID levels but RAID0 is probably not a good choice. It does offer the best performance, but it technically is not RAID, it is AID. The most common RAIDS used are RAID 1, 5 and 10. Everyone likes his or her own, but I use RAID1 for OS and RAID5 for data. I, like George, also have a Hot Spare, which is invaluable for keeping your server running without a hiccup if one drive is lost.
The irony of RAID is that for someone not acquainted with RAID will have some difficulty understanding it. But, configuring RAID is rather easy. If you have a RAID controller and enough drives, you can configure the RAID in the RAID setup in BIOS or most servers will have a pre-windows environment disk that will walk you through it.
I certainly can't see purchasing a server and a server OS and not using RAID.
