openVPMS: Backing Up and Restoring Your openVPMS Data

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CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Backing Up Your Data
• Creating a System Image

1. Introduction

Why do I need to backup my computer? I've never had a problem before.  ("Famous last words"!)
It's often been said of hard drive failure: " it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when."

If you haven't lost data yet, count yourself lucky! It WILL happen. It happens if you lose data due to power surges or loss of power whilst writing data (and yes, you're probably thinking your UPS on the server protects you from that eventuality), equipment failure, a computer virus attack, or some other catastrophic event like a fire. Whilst hardware is cheap and easy to replace, consider how much it would cost to restore lost data (do you even have hard copy of your clinical records any more?).

Backing up your data and keeping that information somewhere "safe-and separate" means you will always have a copy of your data, just in case something tragic happens to your server.

2. Backing Up Your Data

Go to

https://openvpms.org/documentation/csh/2.3/topics/how/backup

for the current recommendations on backing up and restoring OpenVPMS.

3. Creating a system image

More extensive than a database back up, creating a system image enables the user to take a complete image of their hard drive and restore it in the event of a hard- or soft-ware failure.

Creating a System Image (Windows 7-10)