How To Make Backup With Backup Platinum

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To start using Backup Platinum first of all you need to create one or several items. Each item contains information about a backup operation with a set of files and folders.

All existing items are listed in the top view of the main program window.

For each item, you specify:
Item name;
Type of operation (backup or synchronization);
Folders and files to process;
Where to store backup files;
Compression, encryption and other options;
Scheduling options (when and how often to backup your data);
Other advanced options.

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How to Backup Data To backup your data, you need to create one or several backup items.

1. Specify What to Backup At this step you specify files and folders you want to backup.

Adding Drives and Folders. Click the "Add..." button and choose the "Folder..." option.
In the "Browse For Folder" dialog ...
... select a drive or a folder that you want to add to backup.
Repeat this procedure if you want to select more folders.
The list of selected folders will be displayed in the upper box of the page.

Adding Files. Click the "Add..." button and choose the "Files..." option. In the "Select File" dialog, select one or several files and click "Open".
Repeat this procedure if you want to select more files. The list of selected files will be displayed in the upper box of the page.

Adding Outlook/Outlook Express Files. Click the "Add..." button and select "MS Outlook Files" option. The folder with your Outlook data will be added to backup set.
Click the "Add..." button and select "Outlook Express Files" option. The folder with your Outlook Express data will be added to backup set.

Adding Registry Keys. Click the "Add..." button and select the "Registry Key" option. In the "Select Registry Key" dialog, choose required key and click "OK". Repeat this procedure if you want to select more keys.

To remove Folders or Files select a folder or a file in the upper box and click the "Remove" button. You can use this method only for root folders or files. If you want to exclude a subfolder or a file inside a folder, remove the checkmark from it.

Checkmarks. Black checkmarks near files and folders indicate that they are included in the backup set. Grey checkmark near a folder shows that some files or subfolders in this folder are excluded.

Filter Settings. Click the "Filter Settings" button to specify masks for files to be processed and masks for files to be ignored during backup.

2. Specify Where to Backup At this step you select the destination folder where backup copies of your files will be stored.
You can choose to backup to a local drive, LAN, FTP server, or a CD-R/W, DVD-R/W, DVD+R/W device. Note that all external drives connected via USB should be specified as local drives by choosing "Local/LAN" option.

Local/LAN

Click the "Browse for folder" button . In the "Browse For Folder" dialog select a folder or create a new one.

If the selected folder can be accessed only under some specific user account, you can check the "Authenticate" option and specify username and password.

FTP

Select the "FTP" option if you want to backup your files to a remote FTP server.

Installation Instruction for ASPI Driver Please follow the steps listed below to install Adaptec ASPI driver on your system.
This driver is required to use CD and DVD writing devices for backup under MS Windows 95/98/ME.
1. Click the following link to download the ASPI Driver.
2. Run the downloaded file aspi_v471.exe on your system. You will see the following dialog box.
Select the folder where you want to extract the files to (C:adaptecaspi in this example) and click the "Unzip" button.
3. Run aspiinst.exe file to install the ASPI layer. When the installation is finished, reboot the system in order to enable the ASPI driver.

3. Specify Storage Options At this step you can specify various storage options.

ou should select one of the storage methods. The following options are available.
Store each file as is. All files will be backed up "as is", i.e. without compression and encryption.
ZIP each file. Each file will be compressed to a separate ZIP archive. Note that the size of each individual compressed file should not exceed 4 Gb. If you backup onto DVD, the size of each individual compressed file should not exceed 2 Gb.

You can specify password to create standard password-protected ZIP files. Note that Blowfish encryption is not used in this case, but you will be able to extract data using any ZIP client.

4. Scheduling At this step you can schedule backup operation so that Backup Platinum would perform and repeat it automatically at a specified time.

5. Ready To Create Item The last window of the New Item Wizard shows a brief resume with the basic parameters of the new item.

Backup Platinum is an easy-to-use yet powerful backup program to make a reserve copy of your critical data virtually to any type of storage media: hard or USB drives, CD-R/W or DVD/RW media, FTP server or Local Area Network.

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