Hey apricot,

Just wanted to give you some food for thought. Not trying to tell anyone how to back up. Hello, Mozy's 448 Blowfish encryption.

You certainly aren't lacking for offsite backups. Do you have any local backups? 'Cause it would be great to combine them. Even one external hard drive. Monday through Friday folders and just copy and paste or have five SyncToy backups set. Just click before you leave. I think there would be two major advantages, three if you count your ISP being down -- not too much of a deal.

But, number 1, it would definitely give you more redundancy. But, number 2, sometimes it's just plain easier to restore from a drive right next to your server or wherever.

A good example for me is I use Acronis Corporate Edition for Servers to make an image of my entire server. Acronis is just too cool, and it images the drive so you can browse through it just as it is the actual server. So, AC and Medware, etc. are definitely there. But, I make what I refer to as the "module" backups. The small AC chart backup. If my data was deleted or corrupted on AC, I would probably go there first before going to the Acronis image.

Just random thoughts. Well, I guess they aren't that random.


Bert
Pediatrics
Brewer, Maine