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Our server went down last week and of course everything came to a halt. Plan B was to use one of the workstations as the "main" computer. I figured I could probably migrate everything over myself but decided it best if I got Guardian Angel support involved. I pinged them online and also received a phone call. Michael at AC was very helpful and offered to do the whole transfer remotely.

When it comes to backups, I'm a little over cautious. I have it backed up to the Server, also to a Hard Drive docking station that I swap out every morning and another PC on the network. Had I not had done that and only backed up to the server, we would have been out of luck.

That being said, do you have more than one copy of your backup somewhere other than on the server? If you don't, you should definitely consider it.

Glad I am not the only neurotic person...I have 4 copies, 1 on server, 2 on site and another offsite...redundant so I can sleep...

It's amazing to me how many people I meet at the conferences that don't know about where they back their stuff up. The swappable drive I take home with me every night. Better to be overly cautious.

what did you do about the server part during the downtime? were you runing Windows server with a domain, logins etc?

Larry,

We actually have two "servers". One is our Windows server with the domains, internet etc and the other I call our AC server (running Windows Server 2012). The windows server did not go down, it was the PC that has AC that went down so fortunately we still were able to access the internet, our email etc.

When we started budgeting for PC's in the office, I thought it would be a good idea to have a computer that only has Amazing Charts on it, nothing else. Thought this way I wouldn't have to worry about any other software causing problems/conflicts.

We did have the main server go down once and we were without internet for about 4 days, it was not pretty