Simple Strategy for Managing Backups

Most of our customers decide it is better to have a disk¹ for each day of the week on which to put one copy of their database and another disk for the weekly and another disk for the monthly backup and even another separate disk for a quarterly backup.  Eventually each disk gets reused as its' turn comes around. This represents only 10 disks in all.

It is not a good idea to rely on one copy of your database or even one disk on which to store multiple copies of that database.  The above system avoids that.  Some users go a bit further and store some copies off site.  This is not a bad idea either.

UDS has high volume customers that even do a MS Windows copy/paste at midday during their busy season in order to create a quick and easy copy of their database. The reason is even having to re-enter just one whole days work is too much for them to contemplate.  A hundred Orders may also represent a lot of telephone calls too.  The point is that not all work is done at a computer workstation and why take a chance of losing time having to do any of it over.

¹Disk is used in the example above but you could substitute tape cartridge, or any other removable media for that matter and follow this example strategy.