Why is it important to make regular backups?
Important Information
We strongly advise you to make a backup on your hard disk every day or at least every week.
If you store detailed patient information on your computer, for example in Winchip, you should make a backup every day, or even twice a day!
If you loose information you can always recuperate it from one of your backups.
Computers are notoriously unreliable; they might be stable for many years, but nobody is protected one hundred percent from an incident such as a hard disk crash or a virus infection which will happen without any warning.
Recommendation
Making a backup on your hard disk is good protection, but it is much safer to make the backup on some kind of external support such as:
- a USB memory stick
- a CD/DVD
- an external hard disk
We also recommend that you keep at least the last 3 backups.
Click here to read our detailed document about making a backup.