Wait, backing up is a killer feature? Shouldn’t that be standard?
Of course it should be standard, but how often is it easy, secure, and with built-in promise of access and longevity for your data?
Backing up in Kiosk is as simple as clicking one button daily in the administration section on the browser. You’ll confirm the preconfigured location for your backup, and then voilà. Your data will be backed up on both of the hard drives you have attached, your dedicated backup drive as well as your virtual machine. Send those hard drives home with two different team members and even if a plane goes down your season’s results are secure.
But there is more than just ease of making them. Kiosk backups are not proprietary, they are in a standard PostgresSQL format, the gold standard for open source relational databases. SQL isn’t going anywhere. Your backup is transparent and accessible and searchable and can be restored and used even without Kiosk itself – if Kiosk eventually goes kaputt your own data are nonetheless still totally available to you without any additional steps or planning for obsolescence. The same is true for all of the files in the File Repository, which are similarly backed up in two places. Standard formats in multiple copies all without thinking about it. Long-term stability of your data, and a piece of peace of mind.