Suggestions for Record Retention after Retiring or Transfer of Practice

The following recommendations include billing and appointment data, but not clinical data from SOS Case Manager.

Get a copy of the SOS database on your last day. The ideal would be an encrypted zip of the files in the DATA folder. If all that is available is a backup created by some kind of backup […]

(#202) Backup and Recovery: Advanced Topics

The information in the Backing Up Your Data article is quite sufficient for most installations. The current document discusses advanced topics that will be of particular interest to those running the system in larger organizations with high data entry volume. The following topics include how to recover data entered since the most recent backup and […]

Backing Up Your Data

Nothing that you do on your computer in the course of a day — or for that matter, a month — has anywhere near the significance of your backup procedure. A good backup will someday mean the difference between a minor inconvenience and a very costly disaster. It is only a matter of time before […]