Fudgemonkey

Thanks everyone, after a bit of hunting around and following your advice, I have managed to make and locate the .bak file! Cheers! FM

You would think so wouldn't you! However, they couldn't have been more difficulty. We first asked for our data on Oct 16 2018! FM

Thanks for the reassurance regarding the timings! I'm guessing the sql backup folders should be found in SQLServer2017Media as it's the only thing on the laptop that has SQL in the title, or do I need to install a third party programme? FM

Hi there, We are a primary school attempting to migrate from SIMS to another MIS system. In our county, SIMS is centrally hosted, so after a huge amount of two-ing and fro-ing, we have finally managed to get a local SIMS and a copy of our data for us to backup and upload to our new MIS. I have followed the walkthrough from our new MIS provider to make a SIMS backup (DBAttach, DMS, etc), and it all appeared to go well. However, the process only took about 5 mins (was expecting it take a couple of hours), and I cannot find the .bak file anywhere on computer. The closest I have found is folder in Sims/DOCSTORAGE//SIMS/sims titled: Backup_20190126_073943 (obviously date and stamp). This folder has lots of sub folders numbered (10-99), or a1, a2, so and so forth. Each folder is full of files (.rtf, .xls, .doc, and many without a suffix). Total size for the parent folder is 240MB. As you can probably deduce, I'm not especially technical - I'm just trying to create a .bak file! County have been less than supportive (because we are moving away from SIMS and their SLA!) Any help is gratefully received! Thanks FM