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We have a new RMS system with three POS stations and two office stations. I'm wondering what people are using for their backups. Do you have a RAID drive on your network and some software to back up data every night?

Are you using something else? Online service?

A company should have some off-site back ups regardless, of course.

Thanks,

Andrew

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    Here's what we do for our clients;

    If they are using a hard drive for storage, then yes, at minimum a RAID 1.  But that is not a backup method, it is a business continuity device.  When the a hard drive fails, another drive(s) in the RAID will take over immediately.

    We only sell machines now with SSDs in them while the Server also has a 2-3TB hard drive as a backup device.  

    We schedule a RMS database backup every hour (:45 for SO, :50 for HQ), using the scripts we have posted here many times and then we use Norton Ghost or its big brother for Windows Server and it backs up on the hour, any changes made to the SSD drive within that hour.  

    We start an hour before and finish an hour after the store's business hours. Once a week we backup the entire SSD drive. We keep 14 weeks worth of backups.

    We also make sure that the Offline mode of RMS is working on the Registers.

    We re-direct the workstation/register user's folders (docs & pics) to the Server machine's SSD.  

    We backup weekly the other Win7 and 8 machines on the network to that same Server machine's backup drive using Windows built-in backup software just to be safe.  Someone always seems to save a very important file on a workstation/register for some reason!

    Lastly, we have a separate backup routine of important files backed up to a different folder that is sent to the cloud, in case of fire, flood, tornado, tsunami, hurricane, locusts etc.  Those are stored hourly as well.

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    Just curious...what kind of SSDs do you use? Any reliability problems with them?

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    we use backup every night with cmd line tool to dump DB to a network share over vpn 40 miles from locations.

    then we ghost the main drive to a backup 300gig Raid Edition Drive ( for reliability)  on the box every night, doing a FULL ghost bare metal , windows 7 with windows backup and windows xp with acronis

    it saved us last week when a flood ravaged one of the stores... took 3 minutes to pop up a temp cash register

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    BenV,

    Intel for a couple of years now.  No problems to speak of, just keep the firmware up to date.

    We tried OCZ on our in-house machines 4 years ago and every one (7 of them) lost its cookies 2-3 months after their 2 year warranties were up.  All were replaced by Intels.

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    We backup our RMS DB and files/folders (custom reports, labels etc) to a backup drive on-site, and to Dropbox so that it's always stored 'in the cloud'.  

    We keep two weeks worth up there, and a long term archive on an off-site computer.

    For creating the backups we use a modified version of a script from "Dan S" from this thread:

    community.dynamics.com/.../163674.aspx

    We put it in a simple .bat file and schedule the batch to run as needed via Windows Scheduler.

    Dropbox offers 5GB for free, which is enough for small DBs (ours is ~50MB, with ~5000 items).  It grows every day, so within a couple of years we'll need to increase our storage limit.  It's a great solution when we're just starting out right now.

    We use Crashplan for backing up files long-term off site (backup to a 2TB server in our home).  This is a free service too (paid options available for cloud storage).

    If you want to get some extra dropbox space for free you can signup for dropbox using this link... it'll give us both 500MB extra: http://db.tt/EjcwzVCd

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