OK, I am officially way over my head. I did understand that the practicename.enc file WAS the backup but thought it contained the imported items as well. I just felt if I took the most recent one, copied it and took it offsite daily then I could at least revert to the time of that backup. So, I gather it does not contain the imported items?

Where does this put me in my quest to find an off site backup site? Can any of the offsite backup solutions cope with a program that seems to be growing by 75 MB a day (maybe more if that does not include imported items) other than taking a hard drive home every night?

I am going to take what you have here plus your previous backup piece to my IT guy. I will post his response and suggestion as well.

David Grauman MD
Department of Medicine
Commonwealth Health Center
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands