Sage 100 Newsletter – 3rd Quarter 2018
Keeping You Up-To-Date With Information About Sage 100
Sage 100: Do You Have A Backup Strategy?
By: Maureen Bartels, Senior Business Consultant
We’ve all heard the horror stories of good data gone bad:
- It’s December 29th, and the server crashes – taking all of your payroll information with it. And then you find out that the backups had not been run since July.
- After an upgrade, the backup program didn’t include the new location of data, so wasn’t backed up for the last 2 months.
- Employee opens an email in the morning, and without thinking opens the attachment – and just that quick your system has been locked by Ransomware.
How do we avoid becoming one of the unfortunate? Follow a few basic steps:
- Plan your backup strategy to include daily, monthly, quarterly and annual backups.
- As new programs are added or upgraded, take the opportunity to double check that all data is included in your daily backups.
- Review the logs of each backup and correct all issues immediately.
- At least once a year you will want to test the backup files. After your nightly backup, make a change in one of the master vendor or customer files. Now restore the entire Sage 100 (MAS 90 / MAS 200) directory from the backup. The change you made should have been overridden with the correct data.
Be proactive and have your backup strategy in place before a disaster strikes your company.
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