Actinic on a seperate hard drive

[Bedspring]

Hi
my mate has just had a mega problem with a virus because he opened an attachment, stupid I know but the hacker only has to get lucky once, you have to get it right everytime. Anyway enough waffle, would this work, 3 Hard Drives, 2 on your desktop and 1 external. 1 desktop hardrive with Actinic on and 1 desktop harddrive for everything else and the External taking backups from both, so you can take it home if the shop burns down. Would that work or is there a better way. I am thinking that even if a virus got lose via an email if it was on a different hard drive you would be safe. Hope that makes sense.
Cheers Steve

[Duncan Rounding]

Just because the data might be on a different hard does not make it safe to a viral attack.

The best thing to do is plan a backup regime with Actinic installed as normal. For example run Acronis scheduled daily to backup all important data to a separate drive (internal or NAS). Then copy over this backup or the data onto an external drive that you take with you and/or synch that data to a cloud based backup or storage service.

[chris ashdown]

Thats basically what we do

Main actinic on the office server and copy to new Buffalo Raid drive unit

Automatic copy of the MDB every hour using Jans free backup software to 2nd Buffalo (Old unit just used for this 2x500 gb raid) plus server disk

Backup to 1 of 2 USB drive we take home using last MDB backups plus weekly copy of snapshot and daily sage line 50 snapshot.

I think Actinic should include Jans program with every sale as snapshots take a lot of time where as MDB backups a few seconds