Exporting as BAK

To save changes that have been made while working with your published database to a local computer, you can use the export feature. This feature will export modified databases as BAK, preserving all the changes that have been done during the publishing session.

To export a published database, do the following:

1. In the navigation pane, under the Published databases node, select a published database.
2. On the Publish tab, select Export backup or right-click a database and select Export backup.

2. Click Browse to specify the location to export your data.

To compress data, select the Enable compression check box. Compression will be applied according to your SQL server configuration.