Performing a backup is the single most important task you should ever do in Garage Assistant, for this purpose we have designed Garage Assistant to prompt you after daily after 4pm to do a backup if you have not yet done so.

If you have not backed up and for any reason loose your data, we will not be able to help. If you have backed up the worst that could happen is you would loose a days work, now that’s a lot better than 1 years worth !

There's a few ways to perform a backup, all of which perform the same task, the easiest and most accessible is on the log in screen.

Alternatively you can go into the Admin Area, choose Perform a system Backup.

All backup files are saved to your local hard disk accessible through

Start > My Computer > Local Disk C: > GABACKUP

Or the folder path is : C:\GABACKUP

You can change this setting to backup to an external drive or you can also perform custom backups

The main backup is named lastbackup.bak

Another selection of files you will find are named in a dated sequence such as : October_24_2009.bak

These are archived backup files, we highly recommend you periodically transfer these to either CD-Rom or another hard disk, you can safely delete old dated archive backups from your hard disk however we recommend leaving the last weeks worth on your machine.

You can also use the Backup File Maintenance in GA3 to remove excess backup files after a certain period, this requires you to go into

1. Admin

2. Backup File Maintenance

An files which are older than the specified number of days (set by changing Keep up to XX Days worth) will be highlighted in red and can be deleted by clicking the clean up button, this will remove all files highlighted in red.