15. Backing Up a Database

In This Chapter

• The Importance of Backing Up

• Challenges of Backing Up Databases

• Performing Backups

• Backing Up with FileMaker Server

• Creating Backup Strategies

• Restoring from Backups

• Recovering Damaged Databases

• Performing Consistency Checks

In Chapter 14, “Protecting a Database,” you learned about the importance of securing your databases and the features that FileMaker Pro provides to secure them. While implementing security is an important part of protecting your databases, you should also have a plan in place for backing up your data, so that it can be restored should something go wrong.

In this chapter, you learn why it is important to back up your FileMaker databases, how to properly back up database ...

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