Cobian Backup 11 Gravity Installation

[Christina Smith]

Inthe next screen you can select the installation directory for the program. If you are installing the program for the first time OR upgrading from an older version (v.10 Boletus, v.9 Amanita) etc, you should install the program into a new directory. Do NOT install the program into the same directory where an older major version exists. That means that, if you are upgrading from v10, install into a new directory, then you can import the tasks from the old version (from the user interface) and then, you can manually uninstall the old version.

When you have selected the installation type, click Next to begin the installation. If you are upgrading the program from an older version 11 installation, the setup program will automatically launch the uninstaller.

In the main window click the New task button, or select New task from the Tasks menu. A new window will be shown where you can configure your task. Select the first row in the menu to the left: General. Here you can :

Select Create separated backups if you want the program to create a new file or directory every time the task is run. That way you create a history of versions. If you want to overwrite existing files to create an exact copy of the source, uncheck this option.

If you want to be able to reliably copy some files that are in use by some other application, you need to check Use Volume Shadow Copy. Volume Shadow Copy id a technology that permits the program to create a snapshot of the source disc and work with it, and not with the original source. You need to have the work-frame .NET 3.5 (and only this version) installed in your computer in order to use VSC.

When you are executing an incremental or differential backup, you may sometimes want to automatically change the backup type to Full. You may also want to delete some older backups if you are creating separated backups just to save space on your destination.

If the task type is Incremental, you can delete old sets of full backups, which means, old full backups AND their respective incremental backups. Because of the redundant nature of the differential backups, you can here choose to keep a certain number of differential backups for every full backup you create.

Compression is normally discouraged (at least when you are NOT compressing individually). Compression results often in very fragile backups. A single error in one byte of the archive could result in a whole backup going bad. And a lot of things can go wrong with compression, believe me. Compression is often a slow process, much slower than a plain copy. Updating a large archive takes also a lot of time and sometimes you need a lot of extra-space as well. Compressing directly to a remote location can eat a lot of bandwidth as well. Many files like mp3, jpg, etc compress very badly because they are already compressed, you may be wasting your time compressing them. Oh, and did I say that storage is very cheap these days?

If you only care for the directory Dir2 and the text file, you should add C:\Test to the source AND C:\Text\Dir2, and *.txt to the Include only list. That way the program will look into the source (C:\Test) and copy only the files you have in your list, ignoring the rest. Be aware: the files that you add to this list must exist as sub-files or sub-directories of the source of the task!

An event is an action that will be executed before (pre-backup) a backup begins or after (post-backup) the backup ends. An event can be used for example, to execute an external program, to start or stop a service, to shutdown the computer or to link a task with another.

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