In Acumatica ERP, you can create company snapshots containing your company’s full or partial data. Snapshots that can be saved locally in the same database, or at a specified location. You can import and restore snapshot to another company, in this case test company, it's pretty handy tool very useful during implementations, customization and support/troubleshooting while you work with data. You will occasionally run into few technical issues with snapshots, the newer version now needs you to keep all users logged out and in maintenance mode to take snapshot, link to blog article here. Today we are going to discuss how to export and import snapshots which are larger in file size of above 1GB, this is not a limitation from Acumatica and more to do with constraint and default value set in IIS (Internet Information Server). IIS by default allows uploading of a file size of 1GB and it limits the upload process and it can be tweaked to upload upto 4 GB file size and that's...

New Security Feature : Snapshot creation without switching on Maintenance mode. One of the really cool things for System administrator dealing with Acumatica is taking snapshots and being able to re-create another instance or Company, however this led to creating bad records or corrupted data as we are taking snapshots other users might be using the system and there was a good chance of data corruption. In the latest release 2017 R2 Acumatica now warns user with a message " The snapshot may contain corrupted data because you are not in maintenance mode ." letting you know not to take snapshot of the live instance without switching the maintenance mode. Step 1 : Navigate to System --> Management --> Apply Updates, click on the button "Schedule Lockout" and specify the reason for lockout  Step 2 : Navigate to System --> Management --> Manage Companies and click on Create Snapshot Step 3 : Don't forget to remove the lockout.  Such incre...