We recommend you take regular backups of your Sage 50 Payroll data and store them away from your computer. For example, on a USB drive.

This means if anything happens to your computer, you can restore the backup and continue processing where you left off.

Back up before and after you update your payroll and before you make significant changes to your records. To keep your data more secure, you can back up to more than one location. For example, a USB and server.

Take a backup

1. Log in to the company you want to back up.
2. Go to File then Backup.
3. Select Next then choose the files you want to include in your backup.
4. Select Next.
5. If you use Sage 50 Professional, there's a Select Product Type option. Leave this at the default setting unless you know you need to change it.
   
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   For example, this option is useful for Accountants using Professional to send backups to a client using the non-Professional variant.

6. Select Browse, and browse to the location you want to save the backup.
7. Rename the file to make it clear when it's from.
8. Select Save then Next.
9. Click Finish then OK.

If your backup files are too large, try backing up certain files separately, such as your documents. Documents in particular can increase your backup size significantly.