How Do I Schedule Navision Backup & Restore

pvar
pvar Member Posts: 157
edited 2006-08-24 in Navision Attain
Hi,

I need to taka backup of 2 companies from our production database and restore that in a different database. How do I schedule this to happen at a later time?

I know that I could schedule a SQL server job to do this but that includes the whole database. I just need 2 companies from 30 companies in our database. Thanks in advance for any help.

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  • kriki
    kriki Member, Moderator Posts: 9,121
    I am afraid you cannot do that easily.

    Navision-backups can only be taken interactively.
    So you need a keyboard recorder to do it.
    So you record the whole thing in a Navision client and at a certain point you start the recording that opens Navision and does the backup.
    Regards,Alain Krikilion
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  • Luc_VanDyck
    Luc_VanDyck Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 3,633
    Use an external tool: ExpandIT Backup Utility
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  • pvar
    pvar Member Posts: 157
    Thanks Kriki & Luc Van Dyck for your replies. I looked at the ExpandIT utility but it will take only back up, no restore.

    I knew that it is not going to be that easy. Kriki, could you please elaborate about keyboard recording and the steps involoved to achieve this. Thanks again.
  • kriki
    kriki Member, Moderator Posts: 9,121
    pvar wrote:
    I knew that it is not going to be that easy. Kriki, could you please elaborate about keyboard recording and the steps involoved to achieve this. Thanks again.
    I never did it myself.
    I just heard of a lot of persons using it and it seems to work.
    Try to search on http://www.tucows.com. There you should find some programs to do it.
    Regards,Alain Krikilion
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  • Phenno
    Phenno Member Posts: 630
    kriki wrote:
    pvar wrote:
    I knew that it is not going to be that easy. Kriki, could you please elaborate about keyboard recording and the steps involoved to achieve this. Thanks again.
    I never did it myself.
    I just heard of a lot of persons using it and it seems to work.
    Try to search on http://www.tucows.com. There you should find some programs to do it.

    that would be quite a problem if he has to backup/restore only few companies... first time he add/remove one company (and lot of people makes test companies) keyboard will not help him anymore. at least, until he reprogramm keyboard sequence.
  • kriki
    kriki Member, Moderator Posts: 9,121
    Phenno wrote:
    kriki wrote:
    pvar wrote:
    I knew that it is not going to be that easy. Kriki, could you please elaborate about keyboard recording and the steps involoved to achieve this. Thanks again.
    I never did it myself.
    I just heard of a lot of persons using it and it seems to work.
    Try to search on http://www.tucows.com. There you should find some programs to do it.

    that would be quite a problem if he has to backup/restore only few companies... first time he add/remove one company (and lot of people makes test companies) keyboard will not help him anymore. at least, until he reprogramm keyboard sequence.
    I know, but I don't see another way to automate it.
    Regards,Alain Krikilion
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