David, quite correct. I'm amazed how many people incl. Dr's don't do regular backups or no backups at all, and some never test their backups.
Cedric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Guest Sent: Monday, 12 February 2007 9:30 AM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Open letter to Medtech Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: > Hosrt > > The only Data losses I have had in 10years plus of full electronic > medical records was due to the medical software I used & not the > operating system. The only exception to this was the 1st releases of > Win95. Win95 had problems of not always saving data. Since that was > rectified by MS the only other data losses were due to the medical > software & not the OS. I know of lots of people that has had & still > have data loses but most of them was due to not doing backups - but > none are due to the OS, and eventually the system crashes etc. Then > the cost is very high and the IT people make excellent money trying to > salvage it. > Most data loss is due to hard drive failure and your recovery is only as good as your last backup. An early version of Reiser ate my hard drive but it such a cool file system I forgave him and have had no troubles since. It's a tragedy that he killed his wife but you know how annoying those Russian doctors can be. David _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
