Safeguard Your Data with the Data Collaborative’s QuickBase Desktop Backup Edition
While QuickBase has a solid history of reliability, many users are still feeling rattled by the recent wave of outages, and we at the Data Collaborative adhere firmly to the mantra of “better safe than sorry.” So to help you sleep easier at night, we’re proud to present QuickBase Desktop Backup Edition, a custom version of Intuit’s own QuickBase Desktop Microsoft Access application.
- Data transfer is one-way only — from QuickBase to your computer, so you do not have to worry about corrupting QuickBase data if you change your local version.
- You can configure Backup Edition to start automatically when executed, so you can run it without staff needing to monitor it.
- Everytime you run Backup Edition, it “Spins off” the backup data into a new file, so you can maintain multiple backups of your data — as many as you want.
- Backup Edition automatically compacts itself, to avoid MS Access “database bloat”.
Safeguarding your data with QuickBase Desktop is as simple as this:
- Enter your QuickBase username and password.
- Enter an application token. (Due to QuickBase’s own security measures, the applications that you want to back up must either have tokens disabled or all use the same token.)
- Choose the applications that you want to back up.
- Run the backup.
There’s one caveat: due to limitations of Microsoft Access, QuickBase Desktop may encounter some issues in backing up tables with a large number of fields (approximately 200 or more). You can learn more about this issue here. We apologize for this inconvenience.
QuickBase Desktop Backup Edition is offered free of charge, however if you would like help setting it up, the Data Collaborative’s QuickBase experts will set it up, with recurring scheduling, for $149.
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