Automatic backup. You can specify automatic backup mode of any section and schedule this backup. Backupper will automatically perform the backup when its time is due. Time of next automatic backup is determined using the schedule for the section as well as date and time of the latest section backup.
Backup(backup copy) — a copy of data files compressed in the way it occupies much less space on hard or floppy disk than original files.
Backup collection is a set of backups and reserve backups for the same data directory made at different time. Backupper allows to keep several backups of every data directory with user-defined maximum number stored at a time. If the quota is exceeded the oldest backup will be deleted and the newset one will be written instead. If you keep only one backup copy there is a chance that a backup with correct data will be overwitten by the one with damaged files. Several backups secure the data safety.
Backup comment - user-defined text written in the backup during creation. The comment will be displayed in the program while viewing the backup properties. Comments are useful for specifying what data are included into the backup.
Backup directory is a directory to keep backups made by Backupper. You can specify separate backup directory for every section.
Backup schedule determines the mode of automatic section backup. Setting up the schedule you can select one of the following modes:
and set backup time as well:
Data directory is a directory with files which will be included into backup. You can set subdirectories of the data directory to be included into the backup as well.
Differential backup contains only files which were updated since creation of the latest normal backup. Therefore most differential backups occupy much less space than normal backups.
Group is a section which will not be backed up. You can gather similar sections in a group. For instance, you can create a group "Documents" for keeping all sections which back up office documents.
Manual backup. Apart from automatic backups Backupper allows to create backup of selected section on the user's call when necessary. To perform manual backup you should select the necessary section and activate proper command in the menu. You can backup all sections in a group at once.
Password protected backup. If you do not want other people to view or extract your backups you can protect them with password. Data in the backup will be encrypted and you will have to enter the password before restoration (if you try to open the backup with other programs like PkUnzip and WinZip you will have to enter the password as well). Backupper encryption method is similar to other archivers' encryption.
Profile is a set of sections. When started for the first time Backupper automatically creates a default profile 'Admin'. If several users work with the program it is possible to create separate profile for each user ith his own sections. Thus separate backups will be created for each user. It is possible to protect profile with password.
Remote control allows Manager to connect to Engine on another computer and to setup and control that Engine remotely. Remote control is possible only if the Manager or the Engine is a part of Backupper Professional.
Replica directories is a list of directories to hold replicas of new backups. If the list is empty no replicas of current section backups will be created.
Reserve backup is a backup of files in the data directory created before restoration of a backup into the directory. If restoration failed or you want to roll back to previous version of files you can undo restoration using the reserve backup.
Restore(extract) backup — to copy files from the backup into the data directory. Before restoration files in the data directory will be moved into a reserve backup and then these files will be overwritten by the data from the restored backup.
Section is a whole of backups and backup parameters for a set of data. You can create several sections for the same data set with different backup parameters, for instance, different schedules.
Service is a program launched at computer startup before user logs in. Services are not terminated when the Windows session is ended (if the computer is not rebooted or turned off). A program can work as a service only in Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Only Backupper Professional has the ability to work as a service.
Session is continuous work of a program or its component. The following sessions are referred to in the help files and Backupper messages:
Stationary backup is a backup which will not be deleted by Backupper when disk quota for backups is exceeded. You can make any backup stationary using the proper menu commmand. Stationary backup can be deleted manually by user.
Template (set of masks) is a filter for backup. By specifying a template you determine the files to be included into the backup. For instance, mask *.dbf will include in the backup only files of dbf type. To include all files you can enter *.* mask.
Besides you can specify a mask for file exlusion. If you set a *.cdx exlusion mask then files of cdx type (database index files) will not be included into backups.