If you have any questions or ideas for videos, please leave a comment below. We strongly suggest this by using a company like Barracuda or Carbonite. Of course most people now-a-days have their entire system backed up. We always suggest having an offsite backup of your files as well. This can be an issue in the case of a fire or even electrical surges. This helps protect against QuickBooks specific corruption problems.īe sure to note that this is saving your company file local on your computer if you choose the C Drive, or possibly to another local mapped drive. This way if there ever is any corruption issues you always have a recent backup available. We suggest doing several backups a week – maybe Monday night, Wednesday night and Friday night. You can choose to do it weekly by selecting to run this every 1 week, or biweekly by choosing every 2. Enter the information for how you want your Backup to be saved. And now you’re set to run automatic backups!Ĭreate a “New” Backup file.
QUICKBOOKS POINT OF SALE AUTOMATIC BACKUP UPDATE
Note that, if you choose, you may also enter your Windows password in case you’re logged out of your system when the update is scheduled to occur. You may select that you want to save backup copy automatically when you close your company file. When you exit out of options, go to “Next”, and select “Only Schedule Future Backups”. When you go into here, make sure everything matches where you want the file to back up. You have a selection at the bottom of the window for “Options”. There is a way to schedule QuickBooks to automatically back up your files.įirst go up to File > Create Backup or Create Copy and select Backup Copy. Since we’re so consistently busy, we might not remember to back up files ourselves. Worried about your QuickBooks files? With an unpredictable weather, and unpredictable circumstances, you don’t want to worry about losing all of your company’s important financial information.