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# How to backup and restore BUSY data? How to manage user access and permissions?

We can take backup and restore the same from company menu.
For Backup follow the below step
Step 1:- Go to Company menu
Step 2:- Backup data
Step 3:- Select company
Step 4:- Mention user name and password of company
Step 5:- Sepecify path for backup
Step 6:- Select financial year for backup(Single or All).

For restoring backup follow the below steps
Step 1:- Go to company menu
Step 2:- Restore data
Step 3:- Mention path for restoration
Step 4:- Click ok

If same company already exits in list of company then it will ask for rewrite backup data on existing data. Select as per need (Yes or No)

And

There are two types of users in BUSY, Superuser and Subusers. The superuser has all the rights of the company and the subuser has limited rights according to his role. A company can have only one superuser and there is no limit on subusers. Follow the steps given below to manage users in the company:-
Step 1 : Open BUSY
Step 2 : Click on Create Company under Company tab.
Step 3 : Enter details and Save
Step 4 : After Company creation a window appears to create a superuser of the company, here you can enable User Authentication Required options and create a SuperUser Name and Password.
Step 5 : Go to Administration. then User and click on Add
Step 6 : Create Sub User with given rights as per role

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