The staff was doing scanning to finish paper charts in the Chicago office over the holidays while I was on vacation.
The size of the backup went 1.8G to 3G to 5G to 7G in a matter of 4 days.
Upon checking further the scanner in the back was doing 300x300 grayscale rather than black and white and the size of the scans was HUGE.
We went back and rescanned. I personally went into the import items and replaced the huge scans with small scans (B&W at 300x300) and the size went down to 2G.
It filled up the the backup computer and it would not take anymore, I had to delete most of them. The .enc with imports was too large and I had to start backing up without imports (80K)
Not only that, but B&W looks much more readable than grayscale.
Lesson learned. We lost a week and I had to put probably about 10 hours into importing the imports. I did not trust anyone else with that task.
Oh, this is on about 2700 patients.
Last edited by DoctorWAW; 01/21/2011 3:22 AM.
