This is a three part series of data and system protection. It's goal is to make you a bit more aware of how to ensure your system is running consistently and how to recover from errors such as corrupt date, virus's and hardware failure.
In this first part we'll focus on data backup.
CCS's primary data backup is in c:\backups of your primary computer. In order to ensure that the data is backed up daily when you close your day, you should close the day from your primary computer, or you should use another backup software to backup the system.
You may use our remote backup software, so that's important to understand that it's running and that you periodically check with us. If someone uninstalls it or if the software is stopped, we won't know. We only know when there is a transmission failure or the software alerts us itself. So it's good to set a schedule to check with us regarding the data backup.
Finally, you can also use some free applications like sqlbackupandftp to generate your own scheduled backup service to local backup drives. You can also use some software to backup to dropbox, google drive and other online services. All of these are very cost effective.
So we just want to stress to you, it's important to schedule yourself to check on your backups, and make sure that you have a backup located not on the computer itself, you can email backups, you can copy them to a usb drive. There are multiple options.
If you want more tech spec's on the backup services, please check out this page: http://cafecartel.com/kb/doku.php?id=guides:maintenance:start:back_up
If you have any questions, please let us know. We'll be here to help.
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