We've had the same main machine since the practice started in 2008. I'm right now in the process of migrating everything to a new machine machine (win7, not a server).
I'm wondering about backups, should I re-setup everything from the old machine or what should I do different, given it's 4+ years later, etc.
The key directories we backup are c:\program files\amazing charts and c:\practice which is our general file share.
Nightly (automatically) we do this:
1) Run AC backup just depositing the ENC files in the BACKUP in the AC folder, imports NOT included
2) Run Synctoy to a local USB drive, syncing the 2 key directories. Rotates over 7 days, so if we have to go back a few days we could.
3) Run Synctoy to a NAS down the hall, same directories.
4) Run Acronis Backup & Recover 10, full drive image to the NAS drive
5) Run Carbonite, key directories only.
I don't know if this is overkill or messy or what. We never had to use a backup yet, but it's always on my mind, that we don't want to ever lose this stuff.
Some thoughts:
a) Synctoy feels like kind of an obscure choice, but it works, maybe I should use something more mainstream. It is a pain to setup all the days-of-the-week targets. I do like having the actual files not some opaque archive, but maybe I need to get over that.
b) The old machine was XP the new one is Win7. Win7 built-in backup is reasonable maybe I can dump acronis.
c) Should I consider AC's backup service, if using that do you "include imports" in the ENC file?
ENC without imports: 200MB
ENC with imports: 4GB
C:\Practice: 4GB
Thanks for any thoughts. I'm literally sitting here copying stuff between machines right now, friday night.
