Backing Up Data

Data retained in your system depends on your system’s hard drive. To decrease the possibility of a hard drive failure affecting your practice’s information, you should back up your data each day your system is used. When you perform a backup, you copy data from the computer’s hard drive to a separate medium. If data on your hard drive is lost or corrupted, you can typically perform a restore procedure, which copies the data from your most recent backup media onto the hard drive to restore it.

This section includes general recommendations for creating a backup routine. It is recommended that you work with your hardware vendor to create and maintain a routine that is specific to your practice.