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<title>Default Backup File Names and Location</title>
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<p class="Help-Heading-1" style="background-color: #008000;">Default Backup File Names and Location</p>
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<p class="Help-Text"><a href="backupoverview.htm">Backup Overview</a> <span style="color: #c0c0c0;">|</span> <a href="backup02.htm">Restoring Your Data</a></p>
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<p class="Help-Text"> </p>
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<p class="Help-Text">By default, Point of Sale creates backup files named as shown below and places them in the indicated locations. If you make manual or scheduled backups, you can change both the location and file name to meets your needs.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text"> </p>
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<p class="Help-Note"><span class="hcp1">Note</span>: In a multi-workstation configuration, data backups can be made only from the <a href="../qbpos_help_and_support/help_wstypes.htm">Server Workstation</a>.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text"> </p>
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<p class="Help-Heading-2" style="background-color: #e2e2e2;">Backups to Default Location</p>
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<p class="Help-Text">All routine <a href="backup_automatic.htm">automatic, scheduled</a>, and <a href="backup01.htm">manual</a> backups to the default location are named in this format and placed in this folder. If you need to restore your data from a backup, these files are listed in the restore dialog by date, allowing you to easily find the backup you need.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text"><span class="hcp1">File name format:</span>  yyyymmdd0001.qpb</p>
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<p class="Help-Indent">This file name represents a date plus a sequential counter:</p>
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<p class="Help-Indent">yyyy  =  year, mm = month, dd  = day, 0001 = sequential backup number for the day</p>
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<p class="Help-Indent">qpb  = the file extension for Point of Sale data files.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text"><span class="hcp1">Location:</span> Server Workstation in the following folder:</p>
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<p class="Help-Text"><span class="hcp1">Windows XP</span>: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared Documents\ Intuit\ Point of Sale n.n\Data\<your company file name>\Backup</p>
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<p class="Help-Text" style="font-weight: bold;">Windows Vista: <span style="font-weight: normal;">C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\ Intuit\ Point of Sale n.n\Data\<your company file name>\Backup</span></p>
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<p class="Help-Text">where n.n = Point of Sale version number</p>
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<p class="Help-Text"> </p>
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<p class="Help-Heading-2" style="background-color: #e2e2e2;"><span style="background-color: #e2e2e2;">Backups to an Alternate Location</span></p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Backups to an alternate location use the custom file name and location you specify when making the backup. You will need to browse to the same location to restore from these backups.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text"> </p>
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<p class="Help-Heading-2" style="background-color: #e2e2e2;"><span>Special Data Backups</span></p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Special backups include those made when performing certain data-related tasks, such as when installing a program update, running the Clean Up Company Data utility, or importing data.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text">These backup files are named in the same format as your other backups made in the default folder (see above), but are stored in sub-folders of the default folder, one sub-folder for each task.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text"> </p>
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<p class="Help-Heading-2">Notes:</p>
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<ul style="list-style: disc;">
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<li class="p-Help-Bulleted" style="margin-left: -20px;">
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<p class="Help-Bulleted"><span class="hcp1">Not sure where your Point of Sale data is stored?</span>  Open Point of Sale, and then from the File menu, select <span class="hcp1">Utilities > Browse to Data</span>. A Windows Explorer window opens to the location of data folder.</p>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p class="Related-Topics">Related Topics</p>
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<p class="Help-Text"><a href="backupoverview.htm">Backup Overview</a></p>
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<p class="Help-Text"><a href="backup02.htm">Restore Your Data</a></p>
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</body>
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