AOL Backup Software

Here is a short instruction describing how to backup AOL mail by creating a task to save some AOL email folder content to external hard drive.

1. Open Handy Backup. Create a new task by a button on the main panel, a menu or Ctrl+N keys.
2. On Step 1, select a backup task, and then go to the Step 2.

Note: On Step 1, you can also select the advanced mode option. This option allows you doing extra steps and settings for making a backup task, including triggering a task by plugging a related USB external drive onto a PC.

3. Select the E-mail plug-in from the "E-mail" group. This plug-in uses AOL IMAP protocol.
4. Click onto the "Create a connection" option on the right panel.

5. On the new connection dialog, enter the AOL server settings:
• Server: imap.aol.com
• Port: 993
• User: Your account name
• Password: Your password provided by AOL*
• Connection type: SSL/TLS enabled, but not StartTLS!
6. Click OK. Then click onto a new connection name.
7. In the data selection window, mark data to backup AOL email folder content.

8. When you finish selection, click OK and return to the Step 2 of the task creation wizard. Click Next.
9. On Step 3, select the Computer plug-in as storage, and find an external USB drive in the file system list. Select an appropriate drive and, if you want, choose storage folder inside it.
10. Continue creating a task as described in the User Manual. All other steps are unspecific for AOL backup email tasks.

* To use AOL email in Handy Backup program, you must generate AOL password by on-site security app. See the next division of this article for more detailed description.

Generating AOL Passwords

To get an AOL password, please open the AOL homepage in a browser and run a password application (go to "Account Info" → "Account Security"→ "Generate app password").

Select "Other App", create name (example, Handy Backup App) and generate a password. After receiving a password, you can use it with Handy Backup, as described above.

Attention: Please write and keep generated password somewhere, as you cannot access this password later from the website, nor through any application!

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Create a restoration task on Step 1, instead of a backup task. On Step 2, select a file backup.hbi from your backup folder. This file contains all the data about your backup, including the default place to restore AOL email backup.

• For recovering data to an original location, just continue creating a task.
• For cloning your AOL backup emails to a different place, select "Advanced mode" on Step 1, and then click "Change location" on Step 3. Here, create or choose a connection with another IMAP email account or server, and select it to recover AOL backup data.

Note: We recommend to restore AOL email backup data to some other folder than those already existed in the destination account. This may be principal for protecting emails from an accidental loss.

In addition to AOL backup features described above, Handy Backup provides some other possibilities and tools for smooth, quick and reliable backup, including:

• Time-stamping backups, with a customizable format of a stamp for auto processing folders;
• Triggering tasks by some system event, such as logon or plugging a USB device into a computer;
• Automatic repeating of scheduled tasks missed by some cause (if a user needs it);
• Notifying a user about task results by email, by a report window or with a detailed log file;
• Running pre-defined tasks in a silent mode as Windows services, or in a command-line mode.

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