Whats the best way to backup dicom images?

How to backup and/or replicate your PacsOne Server database for redunancy and fault tolerance?
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ncite
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Whats the best way to backup dicom images?

Post by ncite » Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:32 pm

We are using pacs 6.1.1 and efilm for our imaging department. We are migrating to a new server. About 700GB of dicom images are located on a partition on the old server. The folder size is too large for the old server to open.

I want to backup the dicom images to a removable hard drive so we can just plug it in to the new server. What would be the best way to do this?

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Post by pacsone » Mon Jun 21, 2010 3:50 pm

There are 2 parts involved when you backup a PacsOne Server database:

1. The database itself (MySQL or Oracle):

You can use any standard backup/restore tools from the database vendor, e.g., mysqldump, etc for backing up the database.

2. The raw Dicom images received by PacsOne Server:

You can use any off-the-shelf backup/restore software to backup these images just like any other regular files, e.g., even the Windows built-in backup/restore software will work for this purpose.

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