If you have three seperate companies on sage 2010 and you back up does it back up all three companies regardless of what company you are in when you do it.
each company has its own set of data and you can only back up that data whcih you are working on at that time. would be nice to be able to back up all data in one go especially when you have over 25 companies on your system....
If you think about it Sage is just a database and each company has it's own separate database kind of within a shell. Each new company you set up is setting up a new separate database - it probably has different nominal codes, it may or may not be VAT registered etc. Therefore, it would be very difficult to back up everything at once.
With Sage it is relatively easy to work on different companies because you just choose one from the drop down list. In QB you have to physically open the different companies by going to restore and navigating to where the company is saved on the computer
It only backs up the company you are working on, therefore if you have multi users, other users could continue working while you back 1 company. If every company was backed up together, every user would have to log off at same time. Donna
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Donna Curling - Complete Book-Keeping Ltd (CBKLtd) - 07939 101900
Perhaps I'm being simplistic, but if you could schedule the backup to run at, say 1am, that would solve the issue in a multi-user environment.
I'm not an IT expert by any means but it seems to me, "all" you'd need to tell the "master back-up" routine is the passwords and data location for each companies data set.
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Tony
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