Data backup

Services application

You can use the Data Backup menu to back up and restore data.

Note: You can specify the folder for creating and importing backups by selecting Configuration - Backup Path. The program always backs up data in compressed format.

You should regularly save the data you create with <product>, preferably on a daily basis. Click Create - Entire folders and select the projects you most recently worked on.

In addition, you should back up your office defaults separately so that you can restore a backup copy of your office defaults independently of your project data (office defaults are not edited as often so that weekly backups should be sufficient). Moreover, be sure to regularly back up the PROJECT.DAT file located in ...\Data\Allplan\Allplan 2026\PRJ or, if you work with a network version, in the central file storage folder, which you can select freely. This is particularly important after you have created a new project.

To do so, click Create- Individual files - From any folder, then enter the name of the folder, for example ...\Data\Allplan\Allplan 2026\Prj if you work locally or \Net, if you work on a network.

• Never use other programs (for example, File Explorer) to delete or copy data from these folders. Doing so means you have problems when you want to restore the data because these programs do not know which files need to be backed up together and which settings are crucial for which files.