http://www.sosoft.com/blog/2009/06/03/data-security-backup-and-the-hitech-law/ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:14:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.sosoft.com/blog/2009/06/03/data-security-backup-and-the-hitech-law/comment-page-1/#comment-503 Dave Zachau Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:58:56 +0000 http://www.sosoft.com/blog/?p=329#comment-503 The one aspect of data security that I had not considered until recently was maintaining a permanent copy on DVD of all my backups. In particular I learned from Seth that keeping copies of all log files before SOS program updates is a major piece to being totally protected and prepared for any sort of audit or data disaster. Fortunately I was able to find and save all my log files going back six years or so. On the data protection side, several times a week I restore my SOS data file back-up to a computer at home and check the integrity of the files by opening up another copy of my SOS programs for which I have an additional license. On several occasions over the years, doing this off-site restore, I have found that for whatever reason some "gremlin" caused a problem with the back-up requiring a fix. As Kathy pointed out it is ESSENTIAL to regularly check the integrity of the backup you have made by restoring the data and running the program to be sure all the "bits and pieces" are where they should be. The one aspect of data security that I had not considered until recently was maintaining a permanent copy on DVD of all my backups. In particular I learned from Seth that keeping copies of all log files before SOS program updates is a major piece to being totally protected and prepared for any sort of audit or data disaster. Fortunately I was able to find and save all my log files going back six years or so. On the data protection side, several times a week I restore my SOS data file back-up to a computer at home and check the integrity of the files by opening up another copy of my SOS programs for which I have an additional license. On several occasions over the years, doing this off-site restore, I have found that for whatever reason some “gremlin” caused a problem with the back-up requiring a fix. As Kathy pointed out it is ESSENTIAL to regularly check the integrity of the backup you have made by restoring the data and running the program to be sure all the “bits and pieces” are where they should be.

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