Backup Set Wizard Overview of all Backup Set properties

     Backup Set is the heart of the Storage Manager. It fully controls how your backup will work.

     All Backup Set properties are concentrated in the Backup Set Wizard. You use it to add or edit Backup Sets. It walks you through an entire process of adding or editing of a Backup Set:

1. Choose Backup Set description
   

   Each Backup Set must have an unique description that will be used to identify this Backup Set on a backup media. It has to contain up to 50 symbols, digits or spaces. Enter the description at the field.      To make your work easier with many Backup Sets, you can separate them in to groups. That's a pure logical division and does not affect backup or restore operations. Just select your group at the combobox. Click the Next button to accept the entered description and proceed.

   
   
2. Files to backup
   

   The next page allows to include and exclude files, folders and registry keys to/from backup.  When you add a new Backup Set, all boxes are white.  You can include folders, registry keys, or files to backup by clicking on checkmarks near a folder or a file. The selected folders, files and registry keys have a white box with a red check.      To exclude folders or remove them from being included in the list, you simply have to click on the associated checkbox again.      A gray box with a black check means that this folder will not be included in the backup, but it contains included files or folders. Use this state to find included folders in the tree.

        A gray box with a red check means that this folder will be included in the backup, but it contains a number of excluded subfolders.

        You can backup network files and folders by specifying their UNC paths. Use "Add UNC path..." button to add a network folder at the tree. You can include or exclude network files and folders as you do that with local files.

        To preview a list of the selected files, press the "Show list of files to backup" button. Click the Next button to accept the selected files and folders, and proceed.

   
   
   
   
3. Backup Properties
   

   Now you have to specify how often you would like to start automatic backups of this Backup Set and how backups will work.      At the Start backup combobox you have to select one of the values. If you select "Every week", you can choose week days to start automatic backups. At the Time to start fields you have to set a time to start automatic backups.      Advanced properties allow specifying a type of automatic backup (full or incremental). By default all backups are incremental.

        Enable backup of open (locked) files - A special kernel driver (Windows NT/200/XP/2003) can be used to backup open files.

        Enable patch backup - Enables patch backups for this Backup Set.

        Skip Temporary and Debug files - turn this checkbox on to exclude Temporary and Debug system directories from backup.

   
   
   
4. External programs
   
   

   Storage Manager allows to customize the backup process through the use of external commands. External command is an external executable file that can process different operations with source and archive files before, during, and after backup.      Each external command can have arguments. You can use few special variables in the command line. Storage Manager replaces variables on real names before executing the external command.

   
   

   $(FilesList)	Name of a file with a list of all files to backup (one line = one filename).
   $(TYPE)	Backup type ("inc" or "full" string).
   $(CurFile)	Name of currently backing up file.
   $(LF)	Name of a temporary log file. Its content will be added to the backup log.

   
   
   
5. Click the Finish button to save the Backup Set
   
   

   Storage Manager uses the standard Windows scheduler to run scheduled backups. If you use Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, it's necessary to enter your Windows account username and password. If you make a mistake, Windows won't be able to run your scheduled backups.      Click the Continue button. Storage Manager will edit all necessary scheduled tasks by itself.