On Tuesday 27 March 2007 15:50, Tim Churches wrote:
> Cedric Meyerowitz wrote:
> > Doctors should ask if they don't know. Most if not all GP's has a PC at
> > home (or their kids has one). Install your software at home & test
> > backup-restore there.
>
> I really don't want to think about the security and privacy hazards
> associated with restoring a database chock full of highly confidential,
> fully identified patient medical data onto a teenager's home PC... Or
> any home PC, for that matter, given that the degree of physical,
> anti-virus/anti-trojan and firewall protection afforded to home PCs
> rarely meets the standard required for general practice computer networks.
>
> Does anyone else see a problem with what Cedric is suggesting?
>
> Tim C
I've done several real restores of the data that's in an access database;
we've had quite a few reasons to do so.
Actually the staff do a test restore twice a week - they transfer the database
to a fast machine to run the database compaction utility, without which we
grind to a halt, and then restore that database copy.
So, yes we do it twice weekly, at work, on the server. I've only restored the
one that runs on firebird once - when a new server was put in place.
--
system-independent, adj.:
Works equally poorly on all systems.
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