Settings > Database Maintenance

Main Menu > Settings > Database Maintenance > Backup Database

Through this option you take backup of the database

Generally the backup file location is C:\FusionRetail6\Backup. The backup file is a zip file having database backup and other important files.

How the backup file is named and what it contain?

For example : in this backup file FR6DBBack724200980336.zip

•	the first part FR6DBBack is constant and

•	the second part 724200980336 is date and time.

The backup ZIP file contains the following folders

•	FormatFiles: This folder contains the format files used in the printing the documents and bar code labels.

•	Layout: This folder contains the saved layout files. These files are used at the report to save and load the user views.

•	Photo: This folder contains all the photo's used in product master and customer master. Also the logo files and default photo files are stored here.

And following files

•	Error.log: This file contains the error generated by FusionRetail 6.

•	Fr6DemoDB.bak: This file is the DATABASE Backup in sql backup format.

•	FusionRetail.exe.config: This file defines the configuration such as database server name and database name.

•	Message.log: This log file contains the message generated by FusionRetail 6.

•	Sync.log: This is the synchronization log contains the messages related to multi location data transfer.

How to open the backup zip file?

Key Information

•	This is a FOLDER zip format which can be opened by WinRAR or 7Zip.

•	You can also open this using right click on the icon and choosing Open With > Compressed (Zipped) Folders

There are two ways to open the backup ZIP file.

1.	Use WinRAR or 7 ZIP (Free) to open the file.

2.	Use the Windows > Right Click > Open with Compressed (zipped) Folder function.

You will see the following folders

Use normal copy and paste command to get the desired file.