How to Restore a Backup Without Overwriting Current Files?

[Matt]

I had a situation where I made a backup of the files prior to doing a restart of Accounting for a church that was using PowerChurch Online. We did the restart and then reset up the Accounting. After the Accounting was set up we realized that we needed to run some reports from the backup. How can you restore a backup when using PowerChurch Online without overwriting the current files? If the church had bought the software CD we could have simply reinstalled PowerChurch to a different directory and then restored the files there. However, you do not have that option when using PowerChurch Online.

[NeilZ]

I had a situation where I made a backup of the files prior to doing a restart of Accounting for a church that was using PowerChurch Online. We did the restart and then reset up the Accounting. After the Accounting was set up we realized that we needed to run some reports from the backup. How can you restore a backup when using PowerChurch Online without overwriting the current files? If the church had bought the software CD we could have simply reinstalled PowerChurch to a different directory and then restored the files there. However, you do not have that option when using PowerChurch Online.

Matt,

you can't ...

do a backup of your current data, restore the data you need the reports from, do the reports, then restore the current data.

That is one of the drawbacks of the online version.

Neil

[Matt]

Thank Neil. Your suggestion will work.