[ DDSARK // FIELD NOTES ]
Recovery, security, compliance, and the managed model — field notes on protecting multi-site dental organizations.
Copying the Dentrix folder isn't a backup. Here's how to protect the database, charts, ledgers, and imaging with application-consistent, immutable, off-site copies in 2026.
Open Dental is a database plus an image folder. Backing up one without the other—or copying live files—leaves you with backups that won't restore.
Your hosted dental software keeps the lights on, but uptime is not the same as a backup you own. Here is the gap, and how to close it.
Eaglesoft keeps your records in a database and your imaging in separate folders. Back up both, application-consistently, off-site and immutable, or risk losing everything.
A step-by-step ransomware recovery playbook for dental practices: isolate, preserve evidence, notify, restore from immutable backups, and harden afterward.
Ransom is the smallest line item. The real 2026 cost of a dental ransomware attack is recovery, downtime, settlements, and lost trust — itemized.