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Easy enough if you spend the time to read up on it! FIBS is one of the products I have recommended.  It can email you if there is a database error detected. 

Looks okay to me .. just not sure about the garbage collection.  Do you really want to keep 99 backups!  

Local backup of your database We recently came across a neat and free backup scheduler that works for Firebird database tables. FIBS allows you to schedule backups on the hour or minute, and also allows the backup to be compressed with gzip compression. FIBS uses gbak, the utility included with Firebird so that you know that your data ...

but if your hard drive dies .. so does the hidden partition!

I get Acronis 9 to do incremental backups at 3am everyday on my \patients\ directory. It stores the backups in the "Secure Zone" which is a hidden partition of the Hard Drive. Works well thus far. :) I still do episodic entire system images.  That can be automated as well.

Yes, the major problem is that backup needs to be done, and if it's not automated, it just won't get done.  Offsite backup is also a HIPAA requirement.  

We recently came across a neat and free backup scheduler that works for Firebird database tables. FIBS allows you to schedule backups on the hour or minute, and also allows the backup to be compressed with gzip compression. FIBS uses gbak, the utility included with Firebird so that you know that your data is safe.  Copying and compressing ...

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