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How to make a backup of NAV 2016 using powershell script

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Posted on by dmourghen

I want to make a backup of nav 2016 through powershell and automate this process for a daily backup.

it usualy export it as .navdata

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RE: How to make a backup of NAV 2016 using powershell script

Is it on NAVAPP 2016 or SQL itself?
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RE: How to make a backup of NAV 2016 using powershell script

Are you using sql server 2016 ?

There is this issue and you need to install the updated cu.

I suggest you to install the latest cu of Nav 2016.

www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx
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RE: How to make a backup of NAV 2016 using powershell script

It seems when importing back now it's growing the database

SQL MDF file grew from 117 GB to 673 GB

SQL LOG file grew from 13 GB to 107 GB

Can you please advise if you know why.
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RE: How to make a backup of NAV 2016 using powershell script

You can use Export-NAVData cmdlet :

Export-NAVData -DatabaseServer 'MyServer' -DatabaseName 'Demo Database NAV' -AllCompanies -FilePath C:\file\Companies.navdata

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