The 31st of March each year is World Backup Day. This day is designed to help raise awareness of the importance of keeping your critical data backed-up.

A “backup” is an additional copy of all your important files and data – for example, your family photos, home videos, documents and emails.

Instead of keeping a single copy just in one place (like your computer), the idea is that you also keep another secondary copy of everything somewhere else as well. That way, if anything should happen to the device where your original data is stored, you’ll still have a “backup” copy stored elsewhere.

Here at MIDAS HQ, we strongly believe in the importance of regularly backing-up data you can’t afford to loose. We’ve built in a number of backup features to our leading room booking and resource scheduling software to do just that!

How MIDAS backs up your data

MIDAS seamlessly makes complete and automated backups of its own database. It does this upon the first successful login each and every day. These backups are compressed, and typically backups are less than 1MB each in size. Backups are also encrypted, and stored on your MIDAS server for a length of time you specify, typically 7-30 days.

To further protect your data, these automated daily backups can optionally also be emailed daily to a specific email address too. This feature allows you to retain your own “off-site” copies of your MIDAS data within no effort!

In addition to the automated daily backups which your MIDAS system takes, we also provide the ability to instantly generate an backup at any time too! An administrator can navigate to MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS → Database, and use the one-click “Backup Now” button. We really couldn’t make it easier to backup your MIDAS data on-demand!

Restoring Backups

Database backups (whether generated manually or automatically) can be easily and readily restored at any time. You can choose to partially restore a part of a backup, or restore it in full – at any time, all through a simple interface. This may be accessed through MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS → Database → Restore. So, should you ever wish to “roll back” your MIDAS system to an earlier point in time, or if you suffer a massive server failure and loose data, you can have your MIDAS system back up and running again in no time!

For more information on the backup and restore features of MIDAS, please see mid.as/help/manage-database-settings

For our “cloud hosted” customers, we also take complete database backups three times a day. A daily backup is then separately stored off-site for a period of six months.

So as you’ll see from the above features and processes we’ve built into our software, we take backups seriously! We make it painless to ensure your important MIDAS booking data can be easily backed up and restored with minimal fuss!

Whilst you can be confident your MIDAS data is taken care of, why not take a moment to backup your own important personal files on World Backup Day? Your family photos, home videos, documents and emails are important! Can you afford to loose them!? Yes, it may be a little tedious, but you’ll be glad you did should anything ever happen to your files!

How many backups of my important data should I make?

As a general rule, it’s a good idea to have at least three copies of your important data. At least one of these copies should be kept off-site or in the cloud. This is known as the 3-2-1 backup rule.

Here’s what it means:

• Keep at least three copies of your data, including the original data and two backups.
• Store the copies on two different types of media, such as an external hard drive and a cloud storage service.
• Keep one of the backups off-site. Either in a different physical location or in the cloud, to protect against disasters like fire, theft, or flooding.

By following the 3-2-1 backup rule, you can ensure your important data is protected even if one copy is lost, damaged, or destroyed.

It’s also a good idea to regularly test your backups too! Testing a backups ensure they are working properly in the event you’ll need to access them. It’s important to update your backups regularly too – to keep them current.

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We strongly believe in the importance of regularly backing-up data you can’t afford to loose. With that in mind, we built in a number of backup features to our world class web-based room booking and resource scheduling software, MIDAS.

In the background, MIDAS makes a complete and automated backup of its own database and settings upon the first successful login each and every day. These compressed database backups are then stored on the server where your MIDAS resides. Typically, compressed backups are each less than 1MB in size. They’re then stored on the server for a period of time you specify, typically up to 30 days.

To further protect your data, these automated daily backups can optionally also be emailed to a specified email address each day. This allows you to retain your own “off-site” copy of your database too!

In addition to the automated backups that MIDAS makes, our scheduling software also provides the ability to manually generate instant backups at any time. This can be achieved via a simple one-click “Backup Now” button. You’ll find this button via MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS → Database → Backup Now.

Database backups (whether generated manually or automatically) can be easily and readily restored at any time. You can choose to restore either partially or in full via a simple user interface. This can be found via MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS → Database → Restore. So, should you ever wish to “roll back” your MIDAS system to an earlier point in time, or if you suffer a massive server failure and loose data, you can quickly get your MIDAS system back up and running!

For more information on the powerful backup/restore features of MIDAS, please see mid.as/help/manage-database-settings

For our cloud hosted customers we also take complete database backups daily. These backups are then stored off-site at two separate locations for a period of six months.

Even More Backup Options

What’s more, we also offer an optional “Emergency Access” addon to our hosted customers. This optional addon allows cloud-hosted customers to access a “real-time” backup of their MIDAS system in event that they’re ever unable to access their primary MIDAS system. These backups run on different servers, in different data centers, via different ISPs to our Primary Servers.

So, as you can see from all the above features and procedures we’ve built into our software, that we take data backups very seriously! We make it easy to ensure your important MIDAS data can easily be backed up and restored with minimal fuss!

But on World Backup Day today, whilst your MIDAS data is taken care of, why not take a moment to backup your own important personal files? Your family photos, home videos, documents and emails are important! Could you stand loosing them? Whilst it may seem tedious and time consuming, you’ll be glad you did should anything ever happen to the originals!

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We strongly believe in the importance of regularly backing-up data you can’t afford to lose. To that end, we built a number of backup features into our MIDAS room booking software to do just that!

Automated Backups

MIDAS seamlessly makes a complete and automated backup of its own database and settings upon the first successful login each and every day. These database backups are then compressed and stored on the server where your MIDAS resides for a period of time. This is usually for up to 30 days, but can be customized. Typically, each backup is less than 1MB in size too.

To further protect your data, automated daily backups can be optionally emailed to a specified email address each day too. This allows you to retain your own “off-site” database backup too!

Manual Backups

In addition to automated backups, MIDAS provides the ability to generate manual backups on-demand via a one-click “Backup” button. This may be accessed via MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS → Database → Backup Now.

Restoring From Backups

Database backups (whether generated manually or automatically) can be readily restored at any time via a simple restore user interface. Databases may be restored – either full or partially – via MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS → Database → Restore. So, should you ever wish to “roll back” your MIDAS system to an earlier point in time, or if you suffer a massive server failure and lose data, you can have your MIDAS system back up and running in next to no time!

For more information on the powerful backup/restore features of MIDAS, please see mid.as/help/manage-database-settings

Additional Protection for Cloud-Hosted customers

For our cloud hosted customers, we also separately take complete database backups daily. These are then stored off-site at two geographically separate locations for a period of six months.

What’s more, we also offer an “Emergency Access” addon for our hosted customers. This optional addon allows cloud-hosted customers to access a “real-time” backup of their hosted MIDAS system in event that they are unable to access their primary MIDAS system. These backups run on different servers, in different data centers, via different ISPs to our Primary Servers.

So, as you can see from all the above features and procedures we’ve built into our software, we take backups very seriously! We make it easy to ensure that your important MIDAS booking data can easily and readily be backed up and restored with the minimum of fuss!

But on World Backup Day today, whilst your MIDAS data is taken care of, why not take a moment to back up your own important personal files – your family photos, home videos, documents and emails too!? Yes, it may seem a little time-consuming, but you’ll be glad you did should anything ever happen to the originals!

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Today is World Backup Day. This annual event raises the awareness of the importance of keeping your critical digital files and data regularly backed-up.

A “backup” is a secondary copy of all your important files. Important files may include for example, your family photos, home videos, documents and emails.

Instead of keeping a single copy just in one place (like your computer), the idea is to also keep a secondary copy of everything somewhere else as well. So if anything should happen to the originals, you’ll have a backup copy elsewhere.

We strongly believe in the importance of regularly backing-up data you can’t afford to loose. In fact, we’ve built in several backup features to our room booking and resource scheduling software to do just that!

Seamless Automated MIDAS Backups

MIDAS seamlessly makes a complete automated backup of its own database upon the first successful login each and every day. These database backups are compressed. Each compressed backup typically takes less than 1MB each in disk space. Backups and stored on the server where your MIDAS resides for a period of time you specify, typically 7-30 days.

To further protect your data, these automated daily backups can optionally also be emailed to a pre-defined email address daily too. This allows you to retain your own “off-site” backup copy of your database too!

On-Demand Instant Backups

We also provide the ability to generate instant “on demand” backups at any time. A backup can be generated by simply clicking on a “Backup” button. We really couldn’t make it easier to backup your MIDAS data if we tried! You’ll find this button via MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS → Database → Backup Now.

Database backups (whether generated manually or automatically) can be easily and readily restored – either partially or in full – at any time. Backups can be restored via the simple user interface. This is accessed via MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS → Database → Restore. So, should you ever wish to “roll back” your MIDAS system to an earlier point in time, or if you suffer a massive server failure and loose data, you can quickly get your MIDAS system back up and running!

For more information on the powerful backup/restore features of MIDAS, please see the Manage Database Settings section of the help documentation.

For our “cloud hosted” customers (who don’t run MIDAS on their own infrastructure), we also take complete database backups daily. These are then stored off-site for a period of six months.

Emergency MIDAS Access

What’s more, we also offer an “Emergency Access” addon for our cloud hosted customers, which we’ve recently improved. This optional addon allows users to access a “real-time” backup of their hosted MIDAS system in event that they are ever unable to access their primary MIDAS system. These backups run on different servers, in different data centers, via different ISPs to that of our Primary Servers.

So, as you can see from all the above features and procedures we’ve built into our software, we take backups very seriously! And we make it painlessly easy to ensure your important MIDAS booking data can easily backed up and readily restored with the minimum of fuss!

But on World Backup Day today, whilst your MIDAS data is taken care of, why not take a moment to backup your own important personal files – your family photos, home videos, documents and emails too!? Yes, it may be a little time consuming, but you’ll be glad you did should anything happen to the originals!

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By default, MIDAS automatically and seamlessly takes a complete backup on your database upon the first successful login each day. These database backups are compressed (typical backups are less than 1MB each in size), and are stored on the server where your MIDAS resides for a length of time you specify.

To further protect your data, these daily backups can also optionally be emailed to a pre-defined email address on a daily basis too, so that you can keep your own “off-site” copy too!

In addition, a manual database backup can be initiated instantly at any time via MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS → Database → Backup Now.

Previous backups can also be easily and readily restored too, either partially or in full, via the simple user interface through MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS → Database → Restore.

For more information on the backup/restore features of MIDAS, please see the Manage Database Settings section of the help documentation.

For our “hosted” customers (who don’t run MIDAS on their own infrastructure, but instead opt to have their MIDAS remotely “hosted” by us), we also take complete database backups daily, which are then stored off-site for a period of six months.

So, that’s how we ensure that your important MIDAS booking data can be kept regularly backed-up, but on World Backup Day today, why not take a moment to backup your own important family photos, home videos, documents and emails too!? It may seem like a hassle, but you’ll be glad you did should anything ever happen to the originals!

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