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Hi, 
 
 Sorry, just a query. 
 Our Sage 50 data, travels through our server, as it's used on multiple machine one site. 
 Our server is backed up by IT. 
 My question is, would that be a complete back up of our Sage? 
 Scheduled back ups are not set, I was told they were not needed. 
 Any Ideas?

Darron Cockram · Answer

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.

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