Which files to back up in Sage 100 Contractor

When you back up your company data, we recommend that you back up your company financial data as well as all your custom reports and forms. If you are running multiple Sage 100 Contractor companies, back all of them up.

When backing up data as part of the year-end close process, it is important to count the number of files and folders in your company.

To see the number of files and folder in a company folder:

Write this number down so that you can refer to it after you have made the two copies. The number of files and folders have to be exactly the same in both the company and the backup copy.

Caution! If you are working across a network, you must remember to back up company folders, report folders, and form folders that reside at the server.

We strongly recommend that you back up:

• Each company folder that contains financial data (\MB7\Your Company\)
• The Sage 100 Contractor folder (\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Sage\Sage 100 Contractor)
• The Report Forms folder (\Program Files (or Program Files (x86))\Sage\Sage 100 Contractor\Report Forms)

Caution! When backing up your data, be sure to make a full backup and not an incremental or differential backup. An incremental or differential backup only records alterations to the data since the last backup.