PMS How-Tos
Answer-first guides on pms how-tos for multi-site dental organizations.
Backing Up Dental Imaging: CBCT, Intraoral Scans
Dental imaging is huge and usually lives outside your PMS database, which is exactly why it gets missed in backups. Here's how to protect it.
How to Back Up Dentrix the Right Way in 2026
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.
The Complete Guide to Backing Up Open Dental
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 Cloud Dental Software Is Not a Backup
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.
How to Back Up Eaglesoft Without Losing Records or Imaging
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.