When you say the batteries are new, you are referring to the small battery pack that is plugged into the CPU (red card) in the system, and not batteries in a UPS unit or the battery backup batteries (connected to the power supply terminals marked battery) for when power goes out. Again, having a backup of the database is the best way to go. We have in the past moved older other brands of systems that we did not have any database backup cabablities by plugging the system into a decent UPS unit and keeping the system on via UPS for a move that was a short drive away.