I heard about a private school that backed up its fee database (MS Access) to a USB stick every night - in fact what the accountant was doing was backing up the

I heard about a private school that backed up its fee database (MS Access) to a USB stick every night - in fact what the accountant was doing was backing up the desktop shortcut to the database. In the event of the failure that revealed the problem, they lost about 7 months worth of data (which was the time since the computer had last been connected to the network, and had synced via Active Directory, or whatever they call it.)