Additional facts about making backups

• A backup typically is saved on a removable disk, external drive or tape backup system, depending upon the amount of information that's being preserved. You can get information about these systems from most computer manuals, as well as from the person who sold you your MYOB package.

• If you don't want to use the Accounting Plus Backup and Restore commands, other software programmes are available that automate the entire process of making backups - not only for your Accounting Plus company file, but for your entire hard disk as well. If you don't want to take the time to make backups yourself, consider purchasing such a product.

Note:  If you use another software programme to make backups

• You should make multiple backups of your Accounting Plus company file -- that is, more than one copy of your company file -- and store them at different locations. The purpose of multiple backups is simple: Backups can fail as easily as computers can.
  
  If you've made one backup of your company file and a computer problem damages the company file on your hard disk, your sole insurance is the backed-up file. If the storage device containing the backed-up file is damaged as well, you're in just as much trouble as you would be without any backup at all.

Warning:  We usually can't help recover your data if you don't have a backup

Step by step

• To make a backup

Related topics

• Using the MYOB Backup command
• Following a system of making backups