[ DDSARK // FIELD NOTES ]
Recovery, security, compliance, and the managed model — field notes on protecting multi-site dental organizations.
A dental practice should back up continuously or at least several times a day — not nightly. Here is how to set a backup frequency that matches what a modern practice can afford to lose.
Most recoveries start with lost files, not an attack: a deleted folder, a failed drive, a corrupted database. How a restore from immutable backups works, and what the 11-minute median means.
If an attacker with admin rights can alter or delete your backups, you don’t have backups — you have a false sense of security. Here’s what write-once recovery really means.
Compliance isn’t a checkbox you pass once — it’s evidence you produce continuously, across every location. A field guide for DSOs and growing groups.
At a certain scale, “buy a backup app” stops being a strategy. Backup becomes infrastructure — and infrastructure needs an operator. Here’s the case for the managed model.
When a practice needs its imaging back, the bottleneck usually isn’t how fast your pipe is — it’s how far the data has to travel. The case for restoring at the edge.