User Query: I am keep getting errors, using Enterprise. It seems my QuickBooks backup failed. Is there any way to recover QuickBooks Enterprise data back?

Experts recommend that you must always save at least 2 different backup copies for QuickBooks. Since your accounting data is essential for ascertaining profit & loss, calculating payroll, and filing taxes, you need to ensure that you safeguard it with simple and easy procedures that can be performed directly through QuickBooks. In this article, you’ll learn how to backup QuickBooks company file and how to schedule automatic backups.

How to back up QuickBooks is a question we encounter on a daily basis. It’s important that we maintain a consistent backup routine to often-important files like our QuickBooks® data file. Many people can attest that it is well worth adding a backup process and procedure to your business in order to avoid extreme stress and unnecessary costs down the road. Lucky for you, backing up your data file is fairly painless and can be accomplished in a few simple steps.

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User Query: I tried many things even QuickBooks automatic backup not working. What about my files, how can I restore QuickBooks company files, I have so many customers?

A backup file saves all of your company file data in a compressed format. The backup includes your accounting data, letters, images, templates, etc. The backup file won’t include your payroll forms, but we’ve mentioned steps to backup the same later in this article.

Automatic Backup in QuickBooks

QuickBooks automatically backs up your files. The first method creates a backup file each time you close the file. You set the frequency of how often QuickBooks creates the backup. The backup is saved at QuickBooks under the QuickBooks directory in a folder named “Auto Backup”.

Our second method lets you schedule a backup unattended. This means you can back up your documents and data without working on QuickBooks or even at your computer. This backup file can only be stored on a local or network hard drive. The company file must be closed during a scheduled backup.

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To Schedule Automatic Backups, You can follow the steps provided below:

1. Click on File from the main menu.
2. Select Switch to Single-user mode.
3. From the File menu, go to the Back up Company and click on Create Local Backup.
4. A new window with the title Local Backup will appear. Click on Next.
5. Click on Browse. The option will be available in the Local Backup Only section.
6. Input the number of Backup copies you want to keep on your system.
7. Click on Complete Verification in the Online and Local Backup section. The verification process ensures that the data is in good shape.
8. Click on Ok.
9. Click on Save it now and schedule future backups. Click on Next.
10. Mark the option ‘Save backup copy automatically when I close my company file every’. Input a number. After you’ve closed the company file that many times, QuickBooks will automatically create a backup.
11. Click on New to create a schedule. Enter the time and date on which a backup should be created.
12. Once you’ve created the schedule, click on Ok. Enter windows password.
13. Click on Finish.

Now you’ve created a schedule to backup your company file automatically through QuickBooks.

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Note: If you don’t want to create a backup copy now, then click on Only schedule future backups.

Manual Backup in QuickBooks

Before we begin, you must switch to single user mode in QuickBooks. The option for the same is provided in the File menu. To manually backup your company file, follow the steps provided below:

1. From the File menu, click on Back up Company.
2. Select Create Local Backup.
3. A new window titled Local Backup will appear. Click on Next.
4. Select Browse from the Local Backup only section. Select the location where the backup file will be saved.
5. Input the number of backups to be saved.
6. Click on Complete Verification to verify that the accounting data is error free.
7. Click on Ok, then Save it Now.
8. Click on Next to begin the backup process.

We promised at the start that we’ll provide you with the steps to back up payroll forms. The easiest way to store a backup of payroll forms is to create a printout of them and then save them as a PDF. QuickBooks Enhanced Payroll users can directly save the payroll forms as PDF. To know more, you can get in touch with our experts at our LIVE CHAT.

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