Expert Tips: Automatic QuickBooks BackUps, No Guarantees!

July 24, 2009 - PRLog -- After years of computer and QuickBooks Backups, I know that my Expert Tips for Automatic QuickBooks Backups have No Guarantees. The only thing you can absolutely guarantee about QuickBooks Backups and computers is that computers will fail, often at the worst possible time, destroying all data. There are only three ways you can prevent this:

       Backup and restore.

       Backup and restore.

       Backup and restore.

Even with my Expert Tips for Automatic QuickBooks BackUps there are No Guarantees. However, without carefully following these Expert Tips for Automatic QuickBooks BackUps, you can guarantee that your computers will fail, often at the worst possible time, destroying all your data. Computers are now rather cheap. Data is precious. Many small and medium sized companies go out of business after losing data. Here are the endlessly repeated saddest words of QuickBooks users:

       I have no current QuickBooks backup (or computer backup).

       My new QuickBooks backup wrote over my old backup.

       My QuickBooks Backup does not work.

Intuit Data Recovery does an outstanding (if slow) job with QuickBooks data files, but they rarely recover QuickBooks Backups. Therefore, you have No Guarantees. To paraphrase the movie Fatherhood, "You need license to buy a dog or drive a car... You even need a license to catch a fish. But they'll let any... own a QuickBooks computer." Yes, to really screw things up you need a computer. Forget even one of these Expert Tips for Automatic QuickBooks Backups and you will have less than the usual No Guarantees:

       Run Automatic QuickBooks Backups every time you exit QuickBooks.

       Make a minimum of three date stamped versions of Automatic QuickBooks Backups.

       Run scheduled Automatic QuickBooks Backups to a different drive at least weekly.

       Do not make QuickBooks Backups to floppies.

       You can make QuickBooks Backups to a CD or DVD.

       Do not (only) make Automatic QuickBooks Backups on the same drive as your
       QuickBooks data file.

       Have some multi-user Automatic QuickBooks backups use a folder like
       C:zz-QBbackup.

       Run anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall software.

       Use occasional Portable QuickBooks Backups and restores.

       Watch out for a big weakness in Automatic QuickBooks Backups.

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