MS Accounting Backup

  • Hi

    I use office accounting 2009 for my buisiness. I need to reinstall windows as I am using the trial version of windows 7 still. I remember not to long ago having trouble after something similar and losing databases from sql and not being able to restore the accounts. What will i need to backup before I reinstall.

    Thanks In Advance

    Any info welcome

    Dave

  • If I am correct, Office Accounting uses SQL Server as database. So, you can always backup that database and then can restore it (though i have never done it, so here I am just guessing). If you have seperate machine, then you can try this by taking backup from your original machine and then restoring it on your test machine, in that way you eliminate chances of messing up with your data. (i did same with one POIS system of friend of mine)

    You can find many help about how to backup and restore database. Basic script will be something like,

    Backup Database <db_name>

    To Disk = 'C:\testPlace\db_name.bak'

    and then restore that file on your test system

    Restore Database <db_name>

    From Disk='C:\testPlace\db_name.bak' <--- Folder name is not essentially same as it is on another system

    I hope this helps

    Jack

  • I think you'll find this useful (for the sql server backup piece).

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187510.aspx

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