Creating Backup and Restore TasksTo back up or restore your drive or partition image, you need to create the respective task. To make a new task with Disaster Recovery, please follow these steps:
![]() Each task has a unique Name and a task 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 backups. This folder accepts only containers (folders) from My Computer. To select backup destination, click on My Computer and select root$. Then go to the folder named mnt. You see all your connected partitions named sd*n where asterisk is a letter marking physical device sign and n is a number of partition located on it, e.g. sda1, sdb0, sdb1 etc. The letter after “sd” is a mark of placement signing that partition is physically located on one of connected drives. Just select a folder on any partition you plan to use. If you want to select a particular physical device for placing backup or restoration data, open a command terminal using cmd and enter a command line:
You will see all devices with sizes available. 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 following two parameters: ![]() What to Restore defines data to be restored. ![]() Where to Restore defines the place where to restore the backup. You can specify all of the above parameters by drag-and-dropping objects from My Computer into respective task folders. To remove an element from any folder, just drag-and-drop it into Trash which is located in the bottom right corner of the screen. Tags: backup restore Related Feature Pages |