Hi Caroline

I would back up Sage yourself each night if I were you to be on the safe side, that is what I do. as then you can restore to backup easily. You can do a full back up initially which saves all your templates and then do a nightly one for Data Files only.  I would also do a separate Layout Templates one to save to one side.

Do you have any cloud storage or external hard drives you can put your date on should your server go down?  Always better safe than sorry and worth discussing with IT.

I’d say no this is not enough. I have first hand experience of a server failure and it’s no laughing matter when you have to send the raid array off to get recovered. Here is what I do.

Within Sage, I enable hourly backups which are automated. These are then linked to a folder which OneDrive could use.

I use software called Syncback which costs around £30. 

One Sage has run, say, on the hour, Syncback will then copy the data to MS OneDrive and Dropbox. Then, at half past the hour, Syncback will run but this time, it takes a copy of the compxxx folder and zips the contents up. Once this zip has been created, it too then uploads to the cloud. Depending upo; which client I am at, the cloud could be Amazon S3, OneDrive, Dropbox, or Backbkaze.

in addition to this, each and every user of Sage must backup from there machine before running any routine or at the end of the day. 

So yes, the way I run mine is a complete overkill, but I know the absolute maximum amount of data that I am going to loose would be half an hour. With your solution, the maximum amount you’d lose, on the ass7motion the backups ran properly, would be 24 hours.

It all comes down t9 how much data do you want to lose really.

I would recommend using the scheduled backups and ensure the backups are also copied somewhere off-site (e.g. to cloud storage as already suggested) . Even if IT are backing up your server this is a belt and braces approach. Backups are a bit like insurance - you want/need it but hope that you'll never actually have to use it. However if/when it comes to having to restore data in a disaster recovery situation the more options you have the better and your future self will thank you.

With this in mind I would also recommend that, regardless of how backups are achieved, you regularly test a restore of your data. I've seen all too many cases where a backup process was thought to be in place but when it came to actually restoring there were problems and data wasn't actually being backed up, or that the backups themselves were inaccessible or corrupt. I'm not just talking about Sage backups/data here - this is a general backup/restore issue and having confidence that you can recover lost data if you ever actually needed to is priceless.