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Read why your QuickBooks backup failed and accurate fixes


QuickBooks is an accounting software that handles crucial financial data of users. Although the software keeps the data secure, many other factors, like-hardware failure, natural disasters, and human errors, can compromise the data. To prevent users from losing their data, QuickBooks provides an option of creating data backups. But many users have reported that their QuickBooks backup failed due to internal issues in the software. If QuickBooks backup fails on your system, go through this informative blog to learn about the possible reasons and methods to counter the issue on your PC.

Take the help of a QB professional at 1-855-856-0042 to eliminate the issue quickly.

Reasons

The conditions mentioned below cause the QuickBooks backup to fail on your PC-

  1. The company file is no longer available to use due to its unsupported format after incurring damage from a virus attack or data corruption.

  2. Your Windows account doesn’t have the required permissions to access the location you selected to store the backup file.

  3. QuickBooks is suffering from technical glitches which occurred due to defective installation of the software.

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Solutions

Use these methods to eliminate the issue and create your data backup without any problems-

Solution 1- Run the verify & rebuild utility tool to repair damaged QB data

A common reason for the backup failure in QuickBooks is damaged data which causes the software to malfunction. The company file data is processed to create a backup, and if the software fails to do so, the backup process gets terminated instantly. QuickBooks data on your system can be affected by hard disk corruption or a virus attack. You can use the verify-rebuild utility to ensure your data is safe and repair any issues that might cause a failure in the backup. Use these steps-

  1. Launch QuickBooks on your system and click on the File menu.

  2. Hit Utilities in the options list and select Rebuild Data.

  3. You’ll be prompted to create a backup, click Cancel and wait until the data is repaired.

  4. Go to the Utilities option again and click Verify Data.

  5. Wait until the process is over. If you don’t encounter any errors, your data is completely repaired, but if you see a ‘Your data has lost integrity’ message, click Rebuild now.

  6. Let the process complete, and then try to create a backup in your QuickBooks.

If the backup still fails, go for the next solution.

Solution 2- Sign in using the Windows Admin account

QuickBooks backup can also fail if the Windows account you are currently logged in with doesn’t have the required permissions to access the system drive folders. You can fix the issue by using a Windows Admin account, as shown in the steps below-

  1. Click the Windows Start button and select Username from the pop-up list.

  2. Tap Sign out.

  3. Log in again using your Admin account credentials and create a QuickBooks backup.

The issue will not interrupt the QuickBooks backup again.

Conclusion

We have now reached the end of this blog explaining why QuickBooks backup failed on your system. We hope you applied the methods given in the blog and can now create a full data backup without any issues.

Consult a QB support team at 1-855-856-0042 if you have any remaining queries related to this issue.

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