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Graham:I suggest you download this free drive imaging utility http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp and image each drive in your practice so that you can readily restore from these type of events. Hard drives fail at the rate of 4-15% per annum  It doesn't take much math to figure out how long before you have another such ...

I've had some more thought about this. I can spawn a server process that does the backup to S3, and you can get a report back in the client instead. Once the files are on S3, there is no longer a need for them to be stored locally - because they can be served from S3 storage instead.  It might even be a little faster if you're using ...

As you should know, all your scans are saved on the server in the cache-listener directory.  Some of you have more than 10,000 files there which need to be backedup. Amazon offers secure storage on their servers, and this is called S3 - standing for Simple storage service. I can create a client service that will upload all the files in the ...

Easy enough if you spend the time to read up on it! FIBS is one of the products I have recommended.  It can email you if there is a database error detected. 

Looks okay to me .. just not sure about the garbage collection.  Do you really want to keep 99 backups!  

Local backup of your database We recently came across a neat and free backup scheduler that works for Firebird database tables. FIBS allows you to schedule backups on the hour or minute, and also allows the backup to be compressed with gzip compression. FIBS uses gbak, the utility included with Firebird so that you know that your data ...

but if your hard drive dies .. so does the hidden partition!

I get Acronis 9 to do incremental backups at 3am everyday on my \patients\ directory. It stores the backups in the "Secure Zone" which is a hidden partition of the Hard Drive. Works well thus far. :) I still do episodic entire system images.  That can be automated as well.

Yes, the major problem is that backup needs to be done, and if it's not automated, it just won't get done.  Offsite backup is also a HIPAA requirement.  

We recently came across a neat and free backup scheduler that works for Firebird database tables. FIBS allows you to schedule backups on the hour or minute, and also allows the backup to be compressed with gzip compression. FIBS uses gbak, the utility included with Firebird so that you know that your data is safe.  Copying and compressing ...