Step 8: What Time to Backup



In this step of the New Task Wizard you need to provide exact time or date for task scheduling. It depends on your selection in the previous step.


  • If you have selected Once in the previous step, you will be prompted to specify the date and time of backup. To change day, month, year, hour, minute and second, click them and enter new values, or use the ↑ or ↓ keys to increase or decrease them.
    Handy Backup: One-Time Backup Schedule
  • If you have selected Daily in the previous step, you will be prompted to specify the time of backup. To change hour, minute or second, click them and enter new values, or use the ↑ and ↓ keys to increase or decrease them.
    Handy Backup: Daily Backup Schedule
  • If you have selected Weekly in the previous step, you will be prompted to select the day of the week to perform the backup task.
    Handy Backup: Weekly Backup Schedule
  • If you have selected Monthly in the previous step, you will be prompted to select the day of the month.
    Handy Backup: Monthly Backup Schedule

Note: To ensure consistency of your backups, select a day that exists in all months. For example, selecting 30th day will result in omission of task execution in February.


  • When finished, click Next.

Data to Back Up:

File Backup - back up individual files and folders stored in local, LAN and FTP locations
Email Messages Backup - back up e-mail box directly from your mail server
Image Backup - perform complete hard disk image backup with all data and operating system
Email MS Exchange Backup - back up and restore Microsoft Exchange Server stores
Lotus Notes Backup - back up Lotus Notes without stopping the service
ODBC Database Backup - protect your databases by regular backups

Backup Destination:

Backup to LAN, Local and External Drives - store your backups at any drives visible in Windows Explorer
Backup to FTP - offsite backup to remote FTP server provides maximum reliability
Backup to SFTP - transfer sensitive data to a remote server via secure SFTP protocol
Backup to CD-R/CD-RW - burn your backups to optical disks with multi-drive spanning and verification options
Backup to DVD/HD DVD/Blu-Ray - record important data to DVD disks using the integrated burning tool
Handy Backup Online - store backups at Novosoft Online Backup Service instead of third-party providers
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