Handy Backup Help: Advanced Wizard: Backup data

Specify Backup Set

At this step you select files and folders you want to backup.

In one Backup task you can include as many files and folders as you need. You can exclude subfolders or files from Backup task. Also, you can specify types of files to be processed or ignored by the program.

• Add Drives or Folders: Click the "Add" button and choose the "Folder" option. In the "Browse for folder" dialog select a drive or a folder. Repeat the selection procedure if you need to backup folders located on different hard drives or subfolders of different folders. The list of selected folders will be displayed in the upper box of the Wizard. To see contents of the selected folder, click the "plus" sign next to it ("plus" sign will convert into the "minus" sign).
• Add Files: Click the "Add" button and choose the "Files" option. In the "Select a file or files" dialog select files and press the "Open" button. Repeat the procedure if you want to backup several files from different folders. The list of selected files will be displayed in the upper box.
• Add FTP files: Click the "Add" button and choose the "Ftp files" option. The following dialog will appear:

• Host: Enter the name of FTP server.
• Port: Enter the number of port. Its default value is 21.
• User: Enter your FTP user name.
• Password: Enter your FTP password.
• Passive mode: In passive mode the connection is established by your computer. This may be necessary if firewalls do not allow establishing connection from outside.
• Folder: To choose a remote directory for backup your data from, click the "Select FTP folder" button . The "Select FTP folder" window appears.

Upon establishing an FTP connection the list of remote directories will appear in the upper window. Select a directory by left-clicking on it, then press "Select" button. If you want to create a new directory, press the "New folder" button. The lower view of the window shows the FTP session log messages.

Proxy...: Press this button to choose your proxy settings. Proxy server settings dialog will be displayed.

• Use FTP proxy: Check if you use FTP proxy.
• Use SOCKS server: Check if you use SOCKS server.

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. For subfolders or non-root files you should use exclusion.

Exclude Subfolders or Files: If you do not want to backup some subfolders or files, remove checkmarks from them. Such subfolders or files will be displayed in the Files View with "Excluded" statuses.

Include or Exclude Files from the Files View Context Menu: You can also include or exclude selected files through context menu in the Files View. Right-click on a file and choose corresponding command from the menu.

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

Include masks (the program will process only these files): Enter files types you wish to include in your task.
Exclude masks (the program will ignore these files): Enter files types you wish to exclude from your task.
Apply these masks to folders as well: The specified masks will be applied to folders as well as to files.

Predefined Backup source: Handy Backup allows you to use special predefined backup templates to backup "ICQ", "Registry", "Favorites", "Desktop", "Outlook", "My Documents", "Microsoft Outlook files" and "Outlook Express files".

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