Data Integrity in your backup is important.
Just having backups is a very good start.
We also recommend doing tests on any important data according to a schedule. For example, with your accounting data, printing a balance sheet or income statement monthly and then testing the receivables balance is a generally accepted accounting principle. What you are doing is really testing the data integrity.
Theatre Manager has some built in safeguards. We recommend:
- Scheduling the backup process one or more times daily.
- Looking at the backup sizes daily to see that they are generally similar or growing in size as you use the system. TM will alert you if a backup is missed or is smaller in size than the previous one, indicating a possible problem - but do not rely on this as your only visual test of backups running properly.
- Using
- AMS Offsite Backup storage to automate sending data securely offsite -or-
- making copies on removable media and on thumb drives and taking some offsite manually
- Restoring your backup database periodically to ensure that it can be restored.