Creating Backup and Restore Tasks
To back up or restore your data, you need to create the respective task. To create a task, follow these steps:
- On the desktop, open Tasks.
- Click New Task on the window’s toolbar. The New Task dialog opens.
- In the Name field, specify a name for a task.
- Select Backup as a type of the task.
- When finished, click OK. The respective task window opens.
Each task has a unique Name and a type, Backup or Restore.
Backup tasks are defined by two parameters:
What to Back up defines a set of data that will be backed up. This folder accepts any object from My Computer.
Where to Back up defines places where to store the backups. This folder accepts only containers (folders) from My Computer.
There may be cases when you need to perform partial restoration, or restore data to a different place. That’s why you can also create specific Restore tasks which are defined by the following two parameters:
What to Restore defines data to be restored.
Where to Restore defines the place where to restore the backup.
All of the above parameters are specified by drag-and-dropping objects from My Computer into the respective folders of the task.
- Note: If an object you need is located on an unmounted partition, you need to mount it through the use of a utility called GParted. For more details, please see Mounting Hard Drives and Partitions.
To remove an element from any folder, drag-and-drop it into Trash which is located in the bottom right corner of the screen.
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