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Computer Essentials
Backing Up Your Database
Your inventory, customer records and entire sales history is stored inside of your database. It is highly
recommended you backup your data on a daily basis in order to avoid minimal loss of data due to
unforeseen circumstances. It is uncommon to lose data, however the loss of a establishments
database can be catastrophic for the business. It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to backup your database
on a daily basis. In CRE, backing up your database can be done easily through the Database
Maintenance section of the File Menu on the Login Screen.
1. From the Login Screen, select File, then Database
Maintenance, and finally Backup Database.
2. Enter your Administrator’s Password and select OK.
3. Choose a backup folder and type a filename for the data backup
file. We recommend using today’s date as the file name, and
keeping a week’s worth of backups at a time.
You can never be too careful when it comes to your store’s database backup. The only way to recover
from a catastrophic occurrence, such as a fire at your store, is to have an off-site backup copy of your
database. We recommend using high capacity backup drives or any removable mass storage device as
part of your backup system. A removable mass storage device usually plugs into your computer
through a USB port and will be recognized by your computer as another disk drive. Your computer will
assign a drive letter and will be available through the windows explorer. You should remove this
device from your business each and every day to ensure that you can be up and running quickly in
case a catastrophic event actually takes place.