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Hi expert, I have a question regarding the fbk backup. In the past two weeks, when I back up the fbk, there have been always three files, and the first two of them are exactly the same file size. Please advise! Thank you!

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Suresh Kulla 50,269 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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It depends on your database size, the navision has file size limit of 2 GB for backup, if it is more then that it will split into multiple files

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Alex A 3,013 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hello Snoppy,

When you do this kind of backup NAV breaks up the backup file into multiple files, each file has an incremented number at the end. So for example, if you named the backup "10-20-16_1" then you might get the following depending on how large your backup is:

10-20-16_1.fbk

10-20-16_2.fbk

10-20-16_3.fbk

10-20-16_4.fbk

Only the last file will have a different (smaller) size because each file has a maximum size until it carries over to the next file.

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Saurav.Dhyani 14,414 User Group Leader on at

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Hi,

Just to add on what @Suresh Said, While Restoring you need to select the first file and system will be take care of selecting the other files automatically.

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Tharanga Chandrasekara 23,118 on at

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Agreed with Suresh and Saurav. Upgrade to latest version, you will have a one backup file. (Sadly no fbk)

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Thank you all experts!

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