30 QuickBooks Tips in 30 Days: Day 5

Today’s tip is going to be short but very, very important!

Tip #5 of 30: Backup your data every day!!!!

A lot of QuickBooks users only backup their data once a week, and that day is usually Friday.  That is a fine schedule but I believe you should really back up your data more often than that, like every day!

Think about what would happen if your data file suddenly backup corrupted and unusable, or there was a fire in your office and the computer was destroyed.  As long as you have that backup you can restore it on another computer and continue working.  But depending on how old that backup is you may have some info to re-enter.  If your backup is one week old then you will have to re-input one week’s worth of transactions.  That may not be a good thing if you have a lot of activity!

Backing up is quick and easy and with the prices for USB flash drives being so low, there is no good reason for not backing up at the end of each day.  If you’re not sure how to do the backup and restore, check out episode 9 of my QuickBooks podcast titled “QuickBooks Backup and Restore“.