This option will restore your data for a specific Set of Books or your hard drive or in a valid folder on your system. 

This option will compress or zip the size of files contained in the backup file. To Restore a Set of Books from a Backup, a valid Backup (tcBackup.zip) file must exist. 

If your data becomes corrupt for some reason, restoring from backup will fix this. It will be necessary to re-enter all the data from the date of the last backup to the present. It can be seen that backing up often is a good habit that can potentially save a lot of work. If you do not make regular backups, you may have to re-enter thousands of transactions and general ledger, debtor, creditor and stock information. 

It is also important to keep record of your backup disks or files or to label your backup disks to prevent restoring a Set of Books from an incorrect backup disk or file. 

It is recommended that you keep a record of which data is backed up and which is not, to prevent re-entering data that is already on your backup disks. 

To Restore a Set of Books:

  1. On the Start ribbon, select Backup / Restore. If a Set of Books is open on your system, the Set of Books will automatically be closed and the Backup Set of Books screen is displayed: 

  1. Select the Restore option. The Backup Set of Books screen will change to the Restore Set of Books screen. 
  2. Select the Name of the Set of Books you wish to restore. 
  3. Select the folder (drive, etc.) to Restore from. 

You may also browse for a folder to select the folder on your hard drive or network drive in which your backup data is stored when you click on the icon on the right hand side of the "Restore to" field. 

On the "Browse For Folder – Select backup target" screen, select a valid folder and click on the OK button.
  1. Click on the Restore button. The following confirmation message is displayed:

Restore from backup
New No
WARNING this will overwrite your current Set of Books! Are you sure you want to continue? 

  1. If you click Yes, another confirmation message will be displayed.

This will seriously affect your Set of Books! Are you sure you want to clear this Set of Books?

  1. Select (tick) the "I have read this instruction and I understand the action!" The Yes and No buttons will be activated. If you click on the No button, the process will be cancelled. Click on the Yes button, if you are absolutely sure. The following confirmation message will be displayed:

Your Set of Books will be restored in:
C:\TCASH5-2\books\MY-BOOKS\
Do you wish to continue?

  1. If you click on the No button, the process will be cancelled. Click on the Yes button, the restore process will be started.  When the restore process is completed, an  information message will be displayed.  

The Restore process is completed!

Any images linked to Groups and Stock items will also be backed up and restored if it was included in the Backup file ("Small backup (books)"  option was not selected on the "Backup Set of Books" screen.
  1. Click on the OK button and click on the Close button on the Backup Set of Books screen. 

You may also press the Esc key on your keyboard to exit the Backup Set of Books screen.

Should a backup file not exist in the selected directory, an error message will be displayed:

"Backup file not found in

C:\TCASH5-2\Backups\MY-BOOKS202203211117.zip

Click OK and select the correct backup file in zip format.