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Thank you for that info Bert and others.At the moment I am just experimenting at home with different setups but am very limited with hardware, so at the moment everything is on my one and only system drive. Back to the drawing board!

You are welcome, Joseph.
And my apologies for contributing to the serious hijacking of your thread.

Joe,

You may want to consider a VM. Both VMWare and Microsoft make free ones, although you can pay for them too. You can put as many OS as you want on, but the one thing you have to remember is you have to have a license for the OS. But, you can make networks and everything on one computer. Besides, VMs are cool.

Ive used them, but Im not to keen on them. To me it is like adding what I like to call bloatware. Rather I'll wait til I can manuver some of my hard drives around so I can set this up as it would be in a physicians office. But thanks for the suggestion.
By the way is thier a thread started for data bases-let me know so I dont create a thread that already exits.I have some questions and concerns with the AC database layout(colunms).

You are an awesome being to us who only dabble in digital stuff.

I don't think you will find a thread on database structure. Most users do not have the username and password to SQL nor is it Windows Authenticated.

Jon also would likely not appreciate an open discussion on the database. If you have those abilities, I would advise to use PM or email.

No problem.

Bert,

By BERT (Me, I don't like the APP on the server, so I install AC to the system drive, move the databases to the data drive, then delete AC.)

So do you backup both the system drive and data drive on your server? If you do, how?(When the server is SBS 2008)
PS: Excuse the colored lettering, dont know how to do the original post box.

The most important drive, by far, to back up is the data drive. You can always install the OS again. But, while I back up the data more often, it is good to have full backups so one can restore the entire server and save a lot of time and settings.

There are a couple of ways to have both. One is to have two separate drives via RAID or just separate hard drives. If you just have one hard drive you can divide it into up to four partitions, the first being the primary partition for the OS and the rest being logical partitions all residing in an extended partition.

So, basically, one drive, partitioned into system OS and data drive. Since, these will likely be labeled as C and D drives, your backup software can be programmed to back up only C, only D or both.

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