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E3. Backup center🔗

In brief🔗

The Backup center protects your POS data: it lets you create full archives, schedule automatic backups (local, external, or cloud), produce fiscal exports, and run image maintenance. It is your safety net before any intervention.

For whom / when🔗

For the manager who wants to secure their data before an update or an intervention, set up regular backups, or produce a fiscal export for accounting.

How to get there🔗

System → Backups

Prerequisites🔗

🔑 Export data · Manage settings (for maintenance operations)

Screen tour🔗

Backup center, overview

At the top, a banner reminds you to create a backup before any intervention and shows the date of the last backup. Four counters summarize the state of the data (tickets in the database, Z closures, audit entries, images). The Refresh button is at the top right. The screen offers 7 tabs.

Overview tab🔗

  • Current state: a snapshot of the data present (orders, POS sessions, Z closures, fiscal period covered).
  • Quick access to Full backup, Restore, and Maintenance.

Backup tab🔗

Creation of a full archive (ZIP file with the database). Create and download button.

Auto tab🔗

Scheduling of automatic backups:

  • Destinations: local, external, and cloud.
  • Frequency of the schedule.

Cloud tab🔗

The PaderfSuite cloud backup:

  • Space used and backup retention.
  • List of available encrypted backups, with download.

Sovereignty of your data

The cloud backup remains encrypted: the encryption follows that of the local database. Your data is not exposed in plain text on the cloud side.

Restore tab🔗

  • Analyze a ZIP file: select an archive to view its content and choose the sections.
  • Applying a restore is deliberately disabled in the interface: you can analyze an archive, but not apply it from the screen.

Fiscal tab🔗

Compliance exports: JSON, CSV, FEC, PDF, as well as an import.

Maintenance tab🔗

  • Images: analyze, optimize, clean.
  • Controlled cleanup before delivery, protected by a typed confirmation (NETTOYER TEST, meaning "clean test").

Step-by-step procedures🔗

Create a full backup🔗

  1. Open the Backup tab.
  2. Click Create and download.
  3. Keep the ZIP file in a safe place.

Schedule automatic backups🔗

  1. Open the Auto tab.
  2. Choose the destination(s) (local, external, cloud).
  3. Set the frequency, then save.

Review the cloud backups🔗

  1. Open the Cloud tab.
  2. Check the space and the retention.
  3. Download an encrypted backup from the list if needed.

Analyze a ZIP archive🔗

  1. Open the Restore tab.
  2. Select the ZIP file to analyze.
  3. Examine its content and the available sections.

Produce a fiscal export🔗

  1. Open the Fiscal tab.
  2. Choose the format (JSON, CSV, FEC, or PDF).
  3. Launch the export.

Messages & edge cases🔗

  • Applying a restore is disabled by design: the screen allows analyzing an archive, not re-injecting it.
  • Cloud backups are encrypted (same encryption as the local database).
  • Some Maintenance operations require a typed confirmation (NETTOYER TEST, meaning "clean test", or CONFIRMER, meaning "confirm") to prevent any unintended action.

Tips🔗

  • Always create a full backup before an update or an intervention.
  • Enable a cloud destination on the Auto tab to keep an off-site copy, with no manual handling.

See also🔗