# Backup

**URL:** <https://forum.manager.io/t/backup/44422>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 11, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/backup/44422 "2022-12-11T14:10:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![ragas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7c8e57/32.png) [@ragas](https://forum.manager.io/u/ragas)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/backup/44422/1 "2022-12-11T14:10:09Z")

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Is there a way in Manager where we can remove and save the data for a particular year (or period) to another backup files and restore it back if required. Eg: separating 2020 accounts to a 2020.manager file and restoring it whenever we want to check any details.  
The manager file size is increasing bit high, and it become a problem to keep few years in the same file. Please let me know if you already have a solution for this. How does other address this issue ?

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**Author:** ![Joe91](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/joe91/32/35781_2.png) [@Joe91](https://forum.manager.io/u/Joe91)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/backup/44422/2 "2022-12-11T14:28:59Z")

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What size is your Manager file?

What edition (Server, Cloud or Desktop)?

Large file sizes are not really a problem at all

There is no easy way to remove transactions from a file so you could create a copy and attempt to do this using Batch Delete and reenter opening balances but this is not recommened by anyone here

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**Author:** ![ragas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7c8e57/32.png) [@ragas](https://forum.manager.io/u/ragas)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 4:19am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/backup/44422/3 "2022-12-12T04:19:56Z")

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size is about 6MB for an year. I am using Desktop version.

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**Author:** ![eko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a8b319/32.png) [@eko](https://forum.manager.io/u/eko)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 6:13am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/backup/44422/4 "2022-12-12T06:13:00Z")

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> [@ragas](#):
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> 6MB

Sorry but that is insignificant, 100 years still only would be 600MB. Manager (like most) being a perpetual accounting application is not suited for annual accounting like most accounting software. For P&L part annual accounting is fine but for Balance sheet (what the business owns and owes) it is not.

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**Author:** ![Joe91](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/joe91/32/35781_2.png) [@Joe91](https://forum.manager.io/u/Joe91)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/backup/44422/5 "2022-12-12T09:07:38Z")

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6MB is small - I wouldn’t worry until you get to well over 200MB

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**Author:** ![Ealfardan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/ealfardan/32/63166_2.png) [@Ealfardan](https://forum.manager.io/u/Ealfardan)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/backup/44422/6 "2026-07-05T20:09:21Z")

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