Data Back-Up Storage Requirements

[sfotos]

I am a new user to Peachtree. I have a small manufacturing company, that does not yet have a large number of inventory transactions. I do have an average number of exepnse transactions. Can someone share with me what the "average" requirement is for back-up capacity ? I want to back-up my accounting data in a separate storage media from the main server back-up. Will I likely need 100 MB ? 1 GB ? Can I sue a thumbdrive, etc ? Thanks for your advice and opinions in advance.

[Robert Walraven]

The size of your backup depends entirely on how much data you have to back up. Typical Peachtree backup files can range anywhere from under 1 MB to several hundred MB.

Do not depend on backup media as your primary protection. You should first do a backup within Peachtree - that will create a file with a .ptb extension but it is really just a .zip file with your entire database in it. You want to do this from within Peachtree so that you can be sure you have backed up a consistent set of data files.

Back up your data from within Peachtree every day - that gives you protection against data corruption. And do this to a disk other than where you have your Peachtree data stored to protect against a disk failure.

You can then back up your Peachtree backup files onto media and get them offsite to protect you against disaster.