Tally erp, the accounting package software supports carrying the data wherever you wish to. And, this is not only restricted to a single computer but the company data can be carried from Branch Office to Head Office to home using the Backup and Restore options available in Company Info menu. Even one can access the company data remotely using the Tall.Net facility, however, there is one condition, i.e. the internet connection must available on both the sides. So this feature comes handy when one has to access the company data through offline mode. This feature is also very helpful to the auditors at the time of auditing the company accounts. The auditors just simply take the Backup from the client’s computer and restore the information in their computer and complete the auditing work.
Backing up the Company Data
Backup is nothing but taking a softcopy of the company data on removable storage devices such as Flash Drive (Pen Drive) or Compact Disk (CD). When one takes a backup of a company or group of Companies, a file named ;TBK 900.001; (where ;TBK900; is the primary name and ;.001; is the secondary name or extension name) will be created. Tally softwareonly understands this file format. In order to start the backup process:
· Select; Backup; option from; Company Info. Menu
· You will notice; Backup Companies on Disk; screen
· Come to the, Destination; and provide the; Disk Drive path; where you want to save your backup file like H:\ G:\ (for Pen Drives) C:\D:\E:\ (for local Disk Drives)
· Choose a company or group of Companies for backing up particular company or companies or select; All items; for backing up all the companies from the; List of Companies. At the end select; End of list; to complete the selection of companies
· Lastly accept the screen
The moment you accept the Backup Companies on Disk screen Tally will illustrate the Progress Bar and the moment the progress bar finishes TBK900.001 file will be created in the destination path. One just needs to open the Disk Drive location where you have taken the backup. There you can notice the Backup file named; TBK900.001. This is the single file possessing all the information about your Books of Accounts concerning to the selected firms.
Restoring the Data
In order to work in Tally, one needs to have a company created or needs to restore the Data file which possesses the company data. Restoring simply means loading the company data back to the Data directory in the Tally installed location. To restore the data one simply needs to follow the steps similar to the backing up of the data with slight alterations.
Tally ERP 9 has come loaded with several features and backing up and restoring the data is one of them. This feature has excelled the business functioning of several businesses globally to a great extent.
