Chapter 23

Backup and Recovery

Introduction

Perhaps more important than protecting your files with passwords is keeping good backups. Any number of things can happen to your files. Let’s face it, without your data, your business is—well, out of business! This chapter is mostly a discussion, but I will have you save a clone and experiment with exporting and importing some records.

In this chapter, we’ll look at:

image Why you need to do backups

image Commercial backup products

Making a clone of a file

Backups you can do with software you already have

Good ...

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