Reader surveys consistently report that Insightful Accountant readers want App Comparisons to assist them in reviewing and selecting various apps for their own practices, as well as for the businesses they
support.
Insightful Accountant also relies on surveys from both our Top 100 ProAdvisors and our readership to identify the app categories most of interest. Because of the large number and variety of apps (and third-party software) products available within or supplemental to the QuickBooks ecosystem, Insightful Accountant has identified the most significant app categories readers want more information about. One of the app categories that scored the highest within our various surveys was ‘Backup Solutions for QuickBooks Online.’
Why You Need a Backup Solution for QBO
You’ve always been told that your QuickBooks Online data is secure and that Intuit has a data backup and recovery plan. While that is true, you also must understand that the Intuit backup and recovery plan is designed to manage a cyber-attack or data breach impacting their entire QBO platform. Besides your QBO Data file being part of Intuit’s platform, their backup and recovery plan is not aimed at restoring your QBO file when data is corrupted or missing due to malicious or erroneous human behavior. If you have data
problems that are not associated with a system-wide error, Intuit is not responsible for restoring your data.
In fact, the software agreement you executed with Intuit when you subscribed to QBO states explicitly, “You are responsible for any lost or unrecoverable content… Intuit is NOT responsible for any content you submit through these Services.” A user-managed third-party backup of your QuickBooks Online data is the only way to protect your accounting data when and if Intuit’s QBO platform is breached. That’s why you should backup QuickBooks!
Backup Solutions Evaluated in this App Comparison
• Dropsuite
• Redstor
• Rewind
• SafetyNet
• Skyvia
• SysCloud
We will also briefly discuss ‘SaaSAssure’, a new kind of backup platform that is designed for MSPs to offer backup services of multiple SaaS products.
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