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Taking Backups on the Fly

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Regular users do not become conscientious about backups, until some data is

lost. If you are looking for a tool that does not hinder user productivity, is

simple to use and works on its own then DFincBackup is a good choice. It

incrementally backs up your files directly to ZIP file archives. Whenever the

tool detects that changes have been made to files (within folders), you have

configured it to monitor, they are picked up and copied into the backup archive

file. DFincBackup also saves each version of a file separately so that you can

retrieve a point-in-time copy easily. You can backup to a CD as well. In this

article, we show you how to configure and use this solution on a Win XP system.

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Install this software on your desktop and reboot, after which you will find

DFincBackup in your system tray. Double-click this icon to start working with

the software. Backups in DFincBackup are termed 'projects' and you can

create as many of them as you like, with each one monitoring a different set of

folders. 

Applies To: Desktop users



Price:
Free 



USP:
Easy to use backup tool for end users

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To help you create these projects, you have wizards that walk you through.

Start by clicking on the first icon from the toolbar. Enter a name and then

select one of the displayed templates to continue. A template is a set of

preconfigured instructions that lets DFincBackup pull data from a variety of

sources (like documents, email, pictures and so on) and treats them

differently. 

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Let's select the 'E-mail messages' template and select the mail client

(MS Outlook or Outlook Express) to continue. Now verify that the mail location

displayed is correct and proceed to select the drive to backup the mails to-at

this point you can select a local, network or CD-writer as your target drive.

Select either 'incremental' or 'differential' option and choose a

compression rule (the higher the compression, the lesser the space used by the

backup). Finally, select when and for how long you want the backup to run for

each time. DFincBackup also lets you lock the ZIP file with a password before

you finish the wizard. Once the backup project is created, it will be shown in

the main interface. On double-clicking the project you can see the details of

how it was configured, which include the files that are being backed up. 

DFincBackup gives you an extensive set of configuration options from a single window

To take a backup manually, select the project and right click on it, then

from the context menu select 'Start backup,' which will start the backup

process. By default, the backup is saved in C:\Program Files\DFIncBackup_

Home\Backup location. To restore data, from the



same context menu, select 'Restore from the disk' and data will be restored.

Sanjay Majumder

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