As reliable as computers are these days, they can't be fully trusted to provide you with trouble-free recordkeeping. As is the case with all machines, computers are capable of failure. In addition, interruptions in your power supply can seriously damage the hardware and software you use to keep track of your business. In short, you need to ensure the information you enter using your computer is safe; without this security, all the information you've ever entered could disappear in a moment, never to be recovered.
As a result, we strongly recommend that you preserve your AccountEdge information in another location regularly-and very often. The process of preserving your information in another location is called making a backup. The "other location" where you preserve your information is a file called a backup.
The process of making a backup of your MYOB AccountEdge data is usually as easy as copying the company file, custom forms, custom reports, spreadsheet and letter templates to another location-a standard task that's quickly performed on any computer.
The time you spend making backups of your company file, as well as your custom forms, custom reports, spreadsheet and letter templates, pales in comparison to the amount of time you may need to spend reentering data lost as a result of a damaged file.
You can use the MYOB AccountEdge Backup command to automatically create a backup of your company file, and the Restore command to use a backup file you previously created.
Step by step
Using the MYOB backup command
Additional facts about making backups
Following a system of making backups