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Administration
Set up Pracsoft, manage configuration, user records, back ups and other maintenance.
Backup and Restore
Backup
Preparing a Command Line Backup

Administration
Set up Pracsoft, manage configuration, user records, back ups and other maintenance.
- Practice Configuration for Pracsoft-only Users
- Practitioner and User Records
  Thre are two types of user in Pracsoft: User and Practitioner.
- Password Management
- Settings
- Linking Pracsoft with Clinical
  Link MedicalDirector Pracsoft with Clinical to enable patient demographic updates and immunisation data to be transferred between them.
- MedicalDirector Automatic Updates
- Maintenance Utilities
- Pracsoft System Requirements
  This information applies to Pracsoft 4.3.
- Backup and Restore
  - Backup and Recovery Plans
    Your surgery is responsible for protecting its own data files. If this process fails, your financial and clinical records will be lost.
  - Backup
    - Backup Location Tab (Backup) for Clinical/Pracsoft
    - Preparing a Command Line Backup
    - Running a Command Line Backup
    - Creating a Batch File to Run a Backup
      This procedure is used if you want to perform a backup as part of a larger custom process.
    - Delete existing configurations
    - Change a Scheduled Task
    - Backup Media
      Backup hardware is only required on one computer on the network.
  - Restore
    Restore your database and documents from a back up.
  - MDExchange Certificate Backup and Restore
- PKI NASH and Location Certificates Expiring 2022
- Service Improvement Program

Preparing a Command Line Backup

Locate and double-click the MedicalDirector Maintenance icon on your desktop. The MedicalDirector Maintenance window appears.
Locate and double-click within the Common (Maintenance Tasks) section of MedicalDirector Maintenance. The Backup window is displayed.
Select the Backup Location tab.
Select or enter settings as necessary from the following tabs:
- Backup Location
- Database
- Documents
- Notification
- Plugins
For more information, see Delete existing configurations.
Click Save. The Save Configuration window is displayed.
Save the configuration in the appropriate folder.
The default location for configuration files is C:\Hcn\Configurations.