Thanks James for your information about the crypto viruses and the scary consequences. It really has me concerned.
Sometime ago one of the AC tech folks told me that I don't need to test their backups, so I haven't. I suspect that you believe that to not be a good idea. I would appreciate your comments and recommendations about my current situation, as I suspect that there are a lot of us who are flying solo in their 60s doing something similar to me. I think that your comments would have great relevance to many people.
I am on AC 9.1. My "main computer" (not an actual "server") is a 5 1/2 year old Dell XPS Windows 7 Pro 64 bit i7 machine with at least 16G of ram, 2 1T (RAID 1?)internal hard drives, backed up to a new Western Digital 4T My Book external hard drive. I use Acronis True Image 2016 (full version)for local backup, and AC Cloud. Acronis configures a drive image incrementally. I went with Acronis because the free version came with my first WD external drive, so I figured if WD recommended it, it might be okay. Billing software is EZ Claim, which my biller backs up to her computer off site. I have 5 local computers, both i5 and i7 which I personally hard wired to a Net Gear 1G switch.
My "mostly retired" former IT guy is traveling the Globe for months at a time. He recommends that I consider Dropbox or Amazon's cloud service which now supposedly are HIPAA compliant.
Thoughts, recommendations? Or should I just quit and go fishing? However, I do love taking care of patients, and solving their mysteries.
Thanks,
Norm Numerof
Internal Medicine
Vail, Colorado
