2. Nightly Backups

PCC recommends that you keep at least seven backup tapes, one for each business day and two extra "Friday" tapes. When PCC visits your office for your installation or an upgrade, we replace your tapes for you and label them with the days of the week.

Each day, someone in your office should be responsible for removing the previous night's tape and inserting the next one. The system will then be able to run a backup for you around midnight, and you will always have backups from several previous days available in case you need to recover a deleted file.

On each Friday, use a different "Friday" tape. The System Administrator should then take the Friday tape home each Monday. In this way, there is always a safety backup stored somewhere outside of your office. Then, even in the event of a fire, you will have a recent backup from which you can recover your data.