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Source

Start by adding the source(s) you want to have backed up. The Free Edition is limited to 3 Source folders. Other limitations are you can’t back up drives or folders that are not built into your PC such as USB drives or network locations. This limitation is due to the “Shadowing” that needs to occur to copy locked files. Also this program is designed to back up your important working files on your PC onto external locations and not the other way around.

If you want to backup an entire drive just select the drive letter again keeping in mind it has to be a fixed drive that is in your PC and cannot be USB drives or network locations.

Folder Naming

Try not to use special characters in your folder names, as a rule of thumb don’t use any of the characters above the numbers on your keyboard. If you do it may create unexpected results.

Destination

The Free Edition is limited to 1 Destination folder. Some other issues to note are:

• To backup to a network location such as a Server, NAS or another PC use the full network path and not a mapped path. ie. use \\network_or_ip\backup_folder instead of g:\backup_folder. Using a mapped drive letter will ultimately fail to copy.
• Use different folder names for each destination folder as this will affect your logs eg.If you have two destinations a USB and NAS
  • Instead of having a folder called “Backup” for both destinations use folder names such as “Backup_USB” and “Backup_NAS”
  • the reasons are explained further down in the “Logs” section.

Folder Naming

Try not to use special characters in your folder names, as a rule of thumb don’t use any of the characters above the numbers on your keyboard. If you do it may create unexpected results.

Test Copy

This does exactly that. It will go through the whole process and even show you the data it will copy with summaries, and detailed logs but it won’t actually copy anything. This is a good place to start to make sure your settings are correct before doing a manual copy which could take hours.

Copy Now

This will force the program to run immediately with your current settings. Please test before using this as it can take hours to run. You won’t be able to interact with the Interface once the programs starts the copying process. It can be forced to stop but as always not ideal. It won’t break anything if it’s forced to stop other than having half written logs.

Rotate Destination Folders

This option is very important as it will create a folder with today’s day in front of the actual folder that is getting backed up ie Monday to Friday depending on the option. With this option you can keep up to 7 days worth of data. So make sure you have enough space before using this option. ie if you run the backup Monday to Friday then you will need 5 times the amount of space that you are backing up with room to grow.

Once you’ve selected the Source and Destination, tested it and made a first run copy of the entire data it’s time to set it to run automatically. A set and forget basically.

Schedule

The Free Edition doesn’t allow scheduling. Please upgrade to unlock these limitations and more!

 

 

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