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Quick Start
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Quick Start
This tutorial will walk you through owns simple backups and a restore.
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This chapter introduces you to basic Storage Manager's backup and restore
operations and walks you through a tutorial in which you perform your own
simple backups and a restore.
Prepare a Backup Set
Start Storage Manager by selecting Storage Manager Explorer
item at the "Start - Programs - KieSoft - Storage Manager" menu. The
main window of Storage Manager Explorer will appear.
It contains 2 parts: left resizable docked panel with a tree of all existing
Backup Sets and an information window at the right side of the window.
The content of the information window depends on the selected item at the left
docked panel.
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At the first startup, there are no known Backup Sets and the main window looks like the image.
Storage Manager works with data organized in Backup Sets.
To backup or restore your data, you need to create a Backup Set defining
which files to operate with, where to backup them, and when to update
the backup. That's why you have to create a new Backup Set:
- Select Add a new Backup Set command at the Sets menu or
- Click Create New link at the left docked panel.
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A Backup Set Wizard will appear. The first page introduces you in the Backup
Set concept and allows to name a new Backup Set.
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Each Backup Set must have an unique name 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 name at the field.
Click the Next button to accept the entered name and proceed.
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Now you have to select folders and files you want to 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. Selected folders, files and registry
keys have a white box with a red check.
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.
Select few folders to backup. 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.
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Storage Manager works with many types of backup storages. Here you have to
select a backup storage to store backed up data.
Click on a storage type to see its description. Read it
carefully to find out more information about the selected backup storage.
Also you can select an encryption key that will be used to
encrypt backup archives. For now, leave this combobox unchanged.
Click the Next button to set specific storage's parameters.
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Now you have to specify how often you want to start automatic backups of this Backup Set
and how backups will work.
At the Start backup combobox select one of the values. For now,
just select "Every day" item. It means Storage Manager will start a backup of
this Backup Set every day at the time specified at the "Time to start"
fields.
Click the Next button to proceed.
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Storage Manager allows to customize the backup process through the use of external commands.
We do not need that right now.
Click the Finish button to save the Backup Set.
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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.
When the Backup Set is saved, Storage Manager will ask you "Start backup
process right now?". Press YES button.
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Your first backup
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During any backup or restore process, Storage Manager shows a status window
with all necessary information about the process.
Wait until backup process is finished. If the backup failed, you will see
a dialog box with all error messages.
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When the backup process is finished, the main window of Storage Manager Explorer
should look like the image below. My congratulations! Your first backup has been done!
Quick incremental backup
Exit Storage Manager. Make few duplicates of some files in the folders you
backed up. Make sure the names are different from the originals. Also you
can make some new documents using your word processor or any other
application you know well. Do not make them complicated; you need just
few simple changed and new files.
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Start Storage Manager and right click on your Backup Set. A context-sensitive menu
will appear. Select Run incremental backup... command to start backup
of only new or changed files. It will take much less time than the first backup.
The same status window will appear again. Wait until this quick incremental
backup is finished. Congratulations on your second backup!
If you would like, you can get a list of new and changed files. Use Files
to backup... command from the menu.
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Quick restore
So we just backed up some files. Lets assume you have lost some or all
of these files and you need to recover them.
Start Storage Manager and select your Backup Set at the left docked panel.
Four tabbed panels ("Status", "Backup", "Restore" and "Logs")
will appear at the information window. To restore your files
you have to activate Restore panel. It contains the tree of
all backed up files of the selected Backup Set.
You have to select the files you want to restore (click on a checkmark near
a file or folder). When all necessary files are selected, press the Restore
button to start the restore process. A Restore Wizard will appear.
Walk through it without changing anything to restore the selected files
to their original location.
Preparing for disaster
The next chapter will teach you to prepare your computer if it ever stops working. See Preparing for disaster
chapter.
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