Quickbooks backup question

[MLCS]

I'm not real familiar with QuickBooks, but I have a few clients that use it and I'm wondering what's the best way to manage their backup? One of them has an automatic backup already scheduled from a previous tech, but he's just backing up the entire QB (Intuit) folder every day. So this is backing up all the program files and everything as well.

But my main concern is if the drive was to crash for instance, would I be able to re-load the QBW or does she need the QBB's to restore the data?

If you do need the QBB's is there anyway for the software to automatically backup the database every time you close out of it? She wants it completely automated, so she doesn't have to manually back it up from QB and she doesn't have to manually back up from one drive to the external as well.

Anyone know this off the top of their head before I delve into a google on QB?

 

[tartis]

My Quickbooks ask me to backup every x amount of days, and I think that you can set the number of days for the backup file. For myself, my MozyPro Backup service takes my Quickbooks backups and backs them up automatically.

 

[14049752]

All that you need to restore their quickbooks data is the QBW file. The QBB's are backups of that, created by quickbooks.
So, the way it's set up now will work. If it crashes, you just reinstall Quickbooks, make sure updates are installed to match the latest version used with the data file, and open the data file as normal.

 

[frostbyte5014]

I always backup the entire Quickbooks directory. It's overkill but allows for faster restorations.