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Currently in order to do an automatic backup in Sage you must use the Automatic backup tool which uses Windows Task Scheduler in order to do the local backups. This has proved to be very inconsistent and not as reliable as the manual backups of course…

We recently discovered the remote back-up system we use has only been doing incremental back-ups of Businessworks. We have been told that full back-ups are necessary if we need to restore BW at some point. How are other users handling doing full back…

Hi all, I am a total newbie to Sage 50, I think it's a GREAT program so far though! I have a question about a start up message we received every day. It always says: "The last backup date for your data was 07/31/2022. It was backed up on 08/02…

SMUSERTASKS - if this is too technical of a question we can ignore it(delete). As a BW user for 28 years our file SMUSERTASKS has grown to nearly 10MB and takes 4 to 5 minutes to backup or restore (SYSTEM backup) . Should this file be this large and…

A data dump was made and restored on Sage 300 ERP. At the point of opening sage the below error message were gotten with the list of modules which are already installed. sage 300 has detected module update inconsistencies that requires activation. The…

Hello, I just wanted to confirm if the way we are doing backups is the optimal way to do them. Right now we have a secretary that does backups a few times a week. However she will often at times backup multiple companies at the same time -- is this…

Ever since upgrading to the latest version of Sage we are unable to use the automatic backups (error attached) I've submitted a support request and was told to post here. this is going on several weeks and would like to get it resolved. any help?…

Hello, Our backups are becoming huge - 42GB's at the moment. I believe this started happening when we started attaching pdfs/scans. Is there anything we can do to decrease the size? Trying to run a data verification and it takes 1 or 2 hours to do the…

Dear, I am facing a problem in sage 300, I already have two companies in sage 300, but when I open a new company one old one company disconnected from data base, now my old company doesn't show any thing, kindly advise me ANY BODY HERE TO HELP OUT MY…

Dear, I am facing a problem in sage 300, I already have two companies in sage 300, but when I open a new company one old one company disconnected from data base, now my old company doesn't show any thing, but in sql server all data is avail able. kindly…

Here's a new problem after installing 17.1.8 update (not a problem with 17.1.7): Common Tasks - Tools - File Tools - Backup The "ts.ctl" file is in use when we try to use file tools to backup our data. The knowledgebase leads you to various methods…

Our company MAS 500 server crashed, very hard no recover. The DB was backed up to another server and I am able to restore the DB from the BAK file. The data is there, but we need to access reports and stuff. We no longer have the MAS500 server software…

Merged over 3,300 items to code "Z_Discontinued" after months of working with staff to make sure all items on list were approved for merging. Now they need 2 of the 3,300 items restored, historical data. I created the original item numbers and setup…

How does one access Business Vision files from earlier years? The program does not seem to follow Windows convention that clicking on the word File on the upper ribbon does not give an option to locate and load a file.

The name limit for the local computer network adapter card was exceeded. We have to manually start the backup every night. Then it will complete successfully.

had a server crash-have crashplan backup of businessworks 2018 data-have moved all data to new server, have new copy of bw2018 installed, just need to put the data into the bw 2018 program-what is the procedure?

The tech on the phone today told me setting the "backup daily" option will backup on exit if you go into the file numerous times a day... THIS IS NOT THE CASE. But it should be. Backing up on the first exit each day is hard to track. we have numerous…

Bonjour, Je suis dans ma première année financière. J'ai inscrit dans SAGE le 31 août comme date de fin d'année alors que cela aurait dû être le 31 juillet. Ma date de session est le 31 août. J'ai fait des écritures en août dont les paies. Que dois…

Sage 300 2017, MSSQL Client daily dump data, as a backup. last week, they dumped data, for strange reason, dumped data only has data up to end of 2016. No 2017 info. any ideas? thanks!

Hey Sage Support Team! One of my clients just updated to Windows 10 yesterday. One desktop in particular has always been a little quirky with the backups, so I thought it was user error with a hyperactive clicker finger. At the end of the day, client…

When i click the OK, i get "Open an existing database". When I click existing, I can browse to the data base and when i click that, same result. Other computer on office network works. I got an error saying "Not able to create temp file. May be invalid…

MS SQL server 2012, Sage 300 2014 PU 3 I am trying to restore a test database using the most recent backup of its associated production database - in SQL Server Management Studio. I am restoring to another name and that task completes without errors…

I using the Peach Tree 2009. At the beginning of this year, I want to do "Year End Wizard" close 2014, but at the last step "begin close", the progress is stop and non any respond. After I force close the program and reopen it, some data have problem…

I just installed Sage 50 2015 Pro. Until now I have been using Sage 2012 Pro. I'm having problems using my existing company file in the new version: It seems that Sage 50 2015 Pro is having problems connecting to the 2012 Pro version's company file…