In this episode I walk through the process of backing up and restoring your QuickBooks data.  I also take a look at the Portable Company File which is similar to a backup.  You should take great care in developing a good backup strategy for your QuickBooks file.  The built-in backup and restore functions are pretty good and well thought out, but it tends to scare people because there is a lot of information and instruction included along the way.  Hopefully by watching this I can help those people that are unsure of how to make a backup because it is so important to have a backup so that you don’t lose all of your data to a computer catastrophe.  I mention the Intuit QuickBooks Online Backup Service too, but I have never used it.  If you have any experience with it, please let me know in the comments section on the website.

This post was written by Michael Debyah.