Upgrade Premium 2009 Rel F to new 2012 server Premium 2014

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Sorry if this has been posted already. 
 Currently use Premium 2009 Release F Update w/Payroll (on a Windows 2003 Server) 
 Want to go to Sage 50 CA Premium 2014 UPG on server 2012. 
 Is there any documentation out there I could use to help me in my quest? 
 Cheers, 
 BA

RandyW · Accepted Answer

This is what I've learned about Sage 50 backups: 
 The Sage 50 backups (with 'verify' and 'compact data' selected) should be run regularly, since it will tidy up the database when run. 
 If you absolutely must back up the data directly, if you can, configure the script or backup software to check for the presence of a 'process.pid' file in the company data folder (folder with the same name as the 'company file' with a '.SAJ' extension. If the process.PID file is there, someone is logged in, and the data folder should be skipped. 
 And on the volume where the live Sage 50 data is stored: 
 - Never use VSS (it's great, for applications that are VSS-aware, MySQL isn't) 
 - Never allow any kind of virus scanning. 
 - Disable compression. 
 - Disable encryption. 
 - Turn off any disk 'optimization' or 'defragmentation. 
 - Mirror, or use RAID 5 on the disk 
 So a most of those things were learned by research, a few by doing it the other way and wishing I hadn't. Like all open source, and free advice on the internet, if you follow my advice and something breaks, you get to keep both pieces.

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