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Backup Procedures for RMS with Windows XP

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Posted on by Bones 100

As a small retailer, I don't have a tech support department. What is a good - easy way to backup all the info/data (history, journals, daily sales, customer files, etc.) currently on the PC hard drive to an external hard drive which will be stored offsite after downloads . I want to do weekly backups just in case the store PC's are stolen or breakdown. Would using the Windowns XP "Backup" program (all data on this computer) be a good option? 

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    There are many ways to do this. You can use any of a million backup programs and many will schedule automatic backups. The main thing you need to backup is the RMS database.

    Sql has command to do this that can be put into a .bat file and run automatically with Windows built-in Scheduled Tasks.

    Here is a sampe of the bat file I use. Replace YourServerLogin with the actual login (usually SA). Replace YourPassword with your actual password and replace DatabaseName with your Database Name. Replace my path ('d:\backup\back1.bck'") with your own.

    You can copy and paste this into notepad and save as 'backup.bat'. Note where you save it at. Then open Windows Task Scheduler and setup the time and frequency of the backup.

    echo off

    del d:\backup\back1.bck

    osql -U YourServerLogin -P YourPassword -S SERVER -Q "BACKUP DATABASE DatabaseName TO DISK = 'd:\backup\back1.bck'"

    Please note this only stores 1 most recent copy and deletes the prior backup. This is my 1st layer of backup and it runs every 3 hours. Then I copy off a backup for each day to a remote PC and save a weeks worth.

    Hope that helps!

    Marc

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    We setup sqlbackupandftp, a free tool, for all our clients and schedule to do a nightly backup.  You can configure it to email you a daily email with the status of the backup.  The backup is a full backup meaning it backups all your RMS data from day one.  You can delete older backup to free up the HDD. You can download http://sqlbackupandftp.com/.  I also suggest backing up the reports, label and receipt folder on a separate HDD if any of these are custom made.

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