Save Yourself Headaches: Make A Backup!
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A Blackbaud Europe customer recently encountered data corruption and without a valid up-to-date Backup file from the Blackbaud Management console all of their Data would have been lost.
Occasionally there will be times in which mistakes have been made to your database or data corruption has occurred. The only way to be able to resolve this issue is to revert to a backup through the Blackbaud Management Console.
If you are a hosted customer you do not need to worry as backups will be taken of your database by Blackbaud; a transaction log backup is run every 15 minutes. A full backup is run once a week. Blackbaud shall provide fully restorable, client data backups in accordance with the following:
Nightly: Retained on-site for 1 week
Weekly: Retained off-site for 4 weeks
Monthly: Retained off-site for 6 months
If you are self-hosted you should ensure you are making constant Backups to ensure you have the option to revert to a backup of your database if data corruption was to occur. Are you taking Backups of your database? This may sound a strange question however you would be surprised the amount of organisations that do not take regular backups. If the worst was to occur for one of these organisations the data they have invested time, money and effort.
For self-hosted organizations, there are fantastic knowledge base articles to assist you with your backup process. For example Knowledgebase article https://www.blackbaud.com/kb/index?page=content&id=BB94455 (video included) explains how to take manual backup in the Raiser’s Edge.
Another Knowledgebase article that users find helpful is https://www.blackbaud.com/kb/index?page=content&id=BB37023 which explains how to schedule regular backups of your database.
So the question is, have you got a recent Backup?
Occasionally there will be times in which mistakes have been made to your database or data corruption has occurred. The only way to be able to resolve this issue is to revert to a backup through the Blackbaud Management Console.
- Backup your Database to prevent data loss
- Schedule Backups through the Blackbaud Management Console
- If you have a 3rd Party IT team, do they schedule your backups?
- How much data can you afford to lose?
- Hosted?
If you are a hosted customer you do not need to worry as backups will be taken of your database by Blackbaud; a transaction log backup is run every 15 minutes. A full backup is run once a week. Blackbaud shall provide fully restorable, client data backups in accordance with the following:
Nightly: Retained on-site for 1 week
Weekly: Retained off-site for 4 weeks
Monthly: Retained off-site for 6 months
If you are self-hosted you should ensure you are making constant Backups to ensure you have the option to revert to a backup of your database if data corruption was to occur. Are you taking Backups of your database? This may sound a strange question however you would be surprised the amount of organisations that do not take regular backups. If the worst was to occur for one of these organisations the data they have invested time, money and effort.
For self-hosted organizations, there are fantastic knowledge base articles to assist you with your backup process. For example Knowledgebase article https://www.blackbaud.com/kb/index?page=content&id=BB94455 (video included) explains how to take manual backup in the Raiser’s Edge.
Another Knowledgebase article that users find helpful is https://www.blackbaud.com/kb/index?page=content&id=BB37023 which explains how to schedule regular backups of your database.
So the question is, have you got a recent Backup?
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07/09/2014 6:00am EDT
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