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How-To: Create / Restore Companies Backup – NAV 2018

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Ahmed Mohamed Rafik Profile Picture Ahmed Mohamed Rafik 3,049 User Group Leader

We are familiar with how to backup database from Sql, but there is a great feature in Dynamics NAV that enable to backup the whole companies or specific company, and that can be done by using “Import/Export from a data file” that have a special extension (*.navdata).

By going through the following steps in the table below you can know how to create and restore company backup.

Sn. Task Place Note
1 Export Data File (*.navdata) Dynamics NAV Client
2 Select All Companies OR Specific Company Dynamics NAV Client
3 Mark :

·         Global Data, Application Data & Application.

·         Global Data & Application Data.

·         Application Data Only.

·         Global Data Only.

·         Application Only.

 

 Dynamics NAV Client Export Global Data Only will get Business Data, Users & User Permissions.

 

Export Application Data Only will get Business Data without Users.

 

Export Application only will get All Objects (Similar to FOB).
4 Import Data File to another Database (*.navdata) Dynamics NAV Client  
5 Mark:

·         Global Data & Application Data

·         Global Data Only

·         Application Data Only

 Dynamics NAV Client Note that Application can’t be imported from the same window, because you can import Application Objects on Empty Database Not User Accessing Database, furthermore it will defines a new database schema that changes the structure of the business data.

 

There is a common error that i face, that you can’t export the data from a different version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

A

So you must import the data into a database that is compatible with the data in the .navdata file. For example, you cannot import a company into a database that has a different database schema, and you cannot import Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 data into a Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 database.

I think this Feature can benefit in the following scenarios:

  • Technical Support: Solving client issues on Life Environment without Going Offline.
  • Solution Design: Design different client solutions and demonstrate to the users for acceptance purpose.
  • Training Environment: You can export Demonstration Company & import it in other database then you can train users on your own solution.

See you next post.


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