Backing up your Dentrix data is an important part of protecting the information in your Dentrix Imaging system from data loss. We strongly recommend that you implement a secure and routine backup system to reduce the risk of data loss.
Dentrix Imaging installs a scheduled task on the Dentrix Imaging database server that performs a daily backup of the Imaging database. The scheduled task instructs the SQL server to perform a backup of the SQL database and to store the backup in a local folder on the database server.
While there are no set rules for the frequency of your backups, we recommend that you perform a backup in daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly intervals. We generally recommend that you perform or schedule backups at the end of the day after all patient data has been recorded in Dentrix for that day and employees have closed all Dentrix modules.
For information on why to backup, determining the correct location of your data, and guidelines for backing up, see the Backup Recommendations document available in the Dentrix Resource Center at www.dentrix.com/resource-center.