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What a dental office needs to know about backups
23 Aug 2024
How a dental office deals with backups — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a plugin login nobody has used since March. This breaks backups for a dental office.
Six months later, a dental office asked us to look at something unrelated. While we were in the panel, we noticed a plugin login nobody has used since March had crept back. We fixed it before it caused trouble.
For a dental office, we wrote a three-line script that checks backups every morning and emails the owner if anything changes. Total cost: zero.
backups for a dental office is nothing like backups for a multinational. The scale is tiny but the stakes are the same: one wrong record and nobody can reach you.
Big agencies solve backups with a team. We solve it with a checklist and a dig command. The result is the same; the invoice is shorter.
A friend of the owner at a dental office had set up backups years ago. When we audited, the config still pointed at a server they stopped paying for in 2024.
We underestimated how long backups migration would take for a dental office. The estimate was two hours; the reality was a full day because a plugin login nobody has used since March had never been documented.
We quoted a dental office half what the other firm did because we did not propose features they did not ask for. The scope was backups, not a rebrand.
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