Tim Your options are to buy an extra PC that you keep at work to test backups. Or have a PC at home that is yours and do it there. Thirdly, use your kids PC. All you do afterwards is delete the database again, but for that you need some know how. Fourthly get an IT expert to do it for you, but then he has a copy of your data & who knows what he or she will do with it.
Now at home I also have firewalls, antivirus software etc. My kids can't get into my Medcal software as it is password protected etc. My firewall etc at home is just as good as mine at work. So with your fears it seems the 1st option is the only one ie. The Doctors that don't know, must buy an extra PC to test backups. In my case I simply test my backups at home. In an emergency (if AGPAL wants to see how I test my backups), I can restore it onto one of my work stations - again something a non IT literate GP may muck up. Cedric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Churches Sent: Tuesday, 27 March 2007 3:51 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] backup! 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 _______________________________________________ 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
