Hi Zoho community,

I'm trying to decide whether Zoho Creator 5 is suitable for my small business. I think that the Basic plan most suits my 1 person business. If I were to go with the Premium Plan I would still only be 1 user so would get no more than 25,000 records.

My main concern is that there is no off-line backup facility within the Basic plan. That's the only extra option that I'd need from the Premium plan. I'm reluctant to pay double the price just to back up.

With the Basic plan it seems that I could export the application IDE as a .DS file. That would back up the database structure at least. Then export each form as .csv files. Am I on the right track? It's a bit of work but better than nothing. Hopefully the formula fields and internal deluge scripts also get backed up with the .DS file export?

I would have thought that Zoho could give Basic plan subscribers at least a manual backup option and reserve scheduled backups for the higher plans.