{"id":805,"date":"2021-03-10T18:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T18:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2021-03-10T18:24:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T18:24:05","slug":"medisoft-backup-restore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/medisoft-backup-restore\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Backup and Restore in Medisoft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/521989758?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SCHEDULING &amp; RESTORING BACKUPS IN MEDISOFT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Backing up your data is very important!&nbsp; You can schedule backups to run automatically\nin Medisoft.&nbsp; Please note however, the\nMedisoft Task Scheduler does take up one user license.&nbsp; You can schedule backups to run, daily,\nweekly, or as often as needed.&nbsp; It is\nrecommend having at least a week\u2019s worth of separate daily backups.&nbsp; To do so, go to <strong>File<\/strong>, then <strong>Task\nScheduler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note; If doing separate daily\nbackups, or more than one in general, you\u2019ll need to repeat these steps for\neach one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click <strong>New<\/strong> to setup a new scheduled backup task.&nbsp; Leave the option, <strong>Backup<\/strong>, selected then click <strong>OK<\/strong>.&nbsp; Select the database to be backed up, then click <strong>OK<\/strong>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"547\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image.png 547w, https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-300x179.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enter a <strong>Description<\/strong>, for example \u201cMonday\nAuto-backup\u201d.&nbsp; Set how often, at what\ntime, and the start date.&nbsp; To do a daily\nbackup, leave the <strong>Perform task every<\/strong> setting at \u201c1\u201d, to do a weekly\nbackup, set this to \u201c7\u201d.&nbsp; Choose a time\nwhen all other users will be out of the program, and make sure they do logout\nevery day.&nbsp; If a user is still logged in\nat the backup time, the backup may not run.&nbsp;\nSet a <strong>Destination<\/strong>, where the backup should be saved at.&nbsp; Setting a <strong>Password <\/strong>is optional, and if\nyou choose to set one, be sure to make note of it, as a backup cannot be\nrecovered without it.&nbsp; Click <strong>Save<\/strong>\nwhen done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Place a check-mark in the <strong>Open on <\/strong>Startup option,\nthis will allow the Medisoft Task Scheduler to start automatically if the server\nis rebooted.&nbsp; Click <strong>New <\/strong>again to\nsetup another backup, or click <strong>OK<\/strong> to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To restore a backup, while logged in to that database\u2026 first make sure all other users have exited that database.&nbsp; Then go to <strong>File<\/strong>, then <strong>Restore<\/strong>, then <strong>Restore Data<\/strong>.&nbsp; A warning may appear, click <strong>OK<\/strong> to continue.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"306\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-1.png 306w, https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-1-228x300.png 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click <strong>Find<\/strong> to browse for the backup file you wish to\nrestore.&nbsp; Select the desired file, then\nclick <strong>Start Restore<\/strong>.&nbsp; Once the\nrestore is complete, login to verify the data.&nbsp;\nNote:&nbsp; If your login password has\nchanged since the last backup, it will be what it was at the time of backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCHEDULING &amp; RESTORING BACKUPS IN MEDISOFT Backing up your data is very important!&nbsp; You can schedule backups to run automatically in Medisoft.&nbsp; Please note however, the Medisoft Task Scheduler does take up one user license.&nbsp; You can schedule backups to run, daily, weekly, or as often as needed.&nbsp; It is recommend having at least a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/medisoft-backup-restore\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Backup and Restore in Medisoft<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medisoft-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2kmedicalsoftware.com\/Medisoft-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}