To reclarify, while VMs are considered best practice for many reasons, not everyone has VMs. I do have VMs, and I do back them up every night with FF incremental backups, but I also back up AC each night as well. I sort of look at it like a quick modular backup. If something happened to AC, I would much rather re-install it and restore it in minutes with a backup that is made specifically for AC. Then I don't have to restore an entire VM and restore over other perfectly good programs and other data when I can just restore AC. The other reason to back up AC is it is the only way to install the new version (yes, you can do the backup specifically for that purpose just prior -- and you should).
We just talked about testing backups which is not done every day so it is possible that the entire VM backup is corrupted or not being done for whatever reason. Then you at least have your AC backup to keep you from practically losing your practice. Not sure which is more important -- AC or your PM -- but you can continue practicing even if you lose everything else. Or if you don't have a good backup after 10/12/2022, you can restore up to there but still have a nearly uptodate AC and PM and imported items. You can never have too many backups, and we can agree to disagree on this one.
Now I am with you on the fact that you should back up your entire VMs or entire server or entire workstation if using peer-to-peer. I even run the AC backup and our Medware backup manually and watch it complete. I would highly recommend that everyone do a full backup as well as the AC backup and your PM backup if it allows you.
Last edited by Bert; 10/17/2022 12:12 PM.
