To restore previously backed-up Data files, select the company you wish to restore for and the archive you want to restore, and then click OK.

NOTE: This option is not available in the SQL environment.

What happens when I restore a backup?

There are quite a few processes happening when a backup is restored:

1. The company folder is renamed, and a new company folder is created as ".new" until the restore has been completed.
2. Next, the file that is being restored is unzipped. Different steps are followed depending on whether the backup being restored is an ADS or non-ADS backup.
   If the backup is a Non-ADS backup, it will unzip directly into the ".new" company folder. However, if the backup was made utilizing ADS, it will unzip into a snapshot folder within the ".new" company folder.
3. ADS Backup only: This step copies records record by record from the snapshot folder to the new company folder and builds indexes. This process happens 100 percent on the server and is disc-intensive.
4. The final step is to move the subfolders from the "old" company folder into the ".new" company folder and rename them from ".new" to the current company folder name.

Question:

I accidentally restored an old backup and wiped out all of my data! How do I fix this?

Answer:

When a company is restored, the old folder isn’t deleted; it’s renamed with the date of the restore. For example, WINGL was restored on 9/9/14 by accident. This is the version of WINGL that we need to get to. To do this, implement the following steps:

1. Rename the WINGL folder to WINGL – do not use (or something similar)
2. Rename the WINGL2023-08-15_15-06-10 folder to WINGL.
3. Have the client review the data via View/Trend or a  Ledger Listing.