AISBackup: Creating a Backup Job Part 2.

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Copy Jobs:

• Copy New and different files (Older or Newer): Use this option for backup jobs where the destination is to mirror the source drive. After running with this option the destination will contain a copy of all the source files regardless of whether the destination files have been updated since the source files.
• Copy New and Updated Files only: This option emulates the behaviour of a one way synchronization program as it copies new and updated files from the source to the destination and does not replace files on the destination that are newer than the source drive. After running with this option the destination folders may be more up-to-date than the source folders in terms of file age.
• Copy New and Updated Files Both Ways (Synchronize Folders): This option emulates the behaviour of two way synchronization programs and copies the latest versions of all files from the source to the destination and from the destination to the source. After running with this option both the source and destination will contain the latest version of all files, even if these files did not previously exist on either the source or destination folders. Some Users may not want deleted source files reinstated, see Do not Copy Deleted files from Destination, below.
• Do not Copy Deleted files from Destination: Check this option if you do not want files copied back from the destination if they do not already exist in the source folders. This option is used if you do not want deleted files to keep re-appearing in the source folders even though they do exist in the destination folder. This option is only used with the Both Ways (Synchronize Folders) option.
  
   

Backup Style

• Session or Generation Based: Choose between whether the backup is going to be Session Based or Generation Number based.
  
  Session based backup’s enable you to restore your system back to the same state it was in on a particular date, Generation based backup’s enable you to specify how many versions of each file you want to keep.
  
  With Generation type backups you cannot restore the system back to a specified date because the file may have been removed from the Backup Contents File. The ‘Select Session’ option is not available on the restore files screen when you are using a Generation based backup.
  
  Generation based backup’s are useful when you are automatically backing up files from certain directories throughout the day, you may elect to keep the last 3 versions of a file, whereas if you select ‘Keep the last three sessions’ you may end up with only one version of a particular file.
  
  If the backup is to CD the deleted files are not actually removed from the CD but only from the Backup Contents File. Using the Validate option would recover the ‘deleted’ files from the backup to the orphaned folder.
  
  If the backup is to a local Hard Drive or remote Network Drive old generations are deleted from the Backup Contents File and the actual backup database. Using the Validate option will not recover these deleted files.
   

• Advanced Session Management: Select to set up session pruning based on today’s daily, weekly and monthly session retention. See here for more details.
   

• Files Modified within Days or Since Date: The Default value All causes AISBackup to consider all files selected for backup when calculating which files should be backed up. To restrict the files to those modified within the last 7 days then enter the value 7, to restrict the files modified since a date enter a date in the PC's short date format. The value Ask causes AISBackup to ask for the number of days since files were last modified at run time. The Ask option is not suitable for non-interactive Auto-Running. Possible values are: All (Suitable for the majority of backup jobs), Ask, a Date  or a number in the range 1 to 999.
   

• Prune Zip Files: Select this option to get AISBackup to remove individual files from backup zip files. This reduces the disk space used at the cost of a longer backup time. For all disk based backups complete zip files that are no longer required are deleted from the backup destination.
   

• Open Backup Contents from Backup Media: This option is only shown when the backup is to a FireWire drive, USB drive or removable media (but not CD or DVD).
  
  This option opens the contents of the backup from the backup media rather than from the AISBackup database folder. This option is useful when sharing a backup between PC’s or when backing up using the same backup job to multiple FireWire/USB drives. Check this option to ensure that any new backup data added to the backup is based on what is on the backup media.
   

• Backup NTFS Security Settings: Use this option to backup NTFS security settings and Alternate Data Streams. This option creates non-standard zip files and even though the zip files can be opened with third party zip programs it will not be possible to extract the files except by using AISBackup.
  
  Only System and Backup Administrator user accounts are able to backup NTFS security settings.
  
  Ensure that System and Backup Administrator permission is present before backing up NTFS security settings from networked computers.

Auto Select Files

If Manually choose files and folders was chosen an Auto-Select files form is displayed for if you would like to pre-select some files for backup.

• The Windows Operating System. The Operating System is selected with the minimum of Documents and Settings (Only the registry files are selected from Documents and Settings).
   

• The Registry. This includes both the System and User portions of the Registry.
   

• Everybody’s Documents and Settings. These folders contain data for Microsoft systems such as Outlook Express, Desktop, Cookies, Start Menus etc. If you have re-located these files then you must select them manually. Files and folders of other programs must also be selected manually.
   

• Everybody’s My Documents. Just the Microsoft Document folder from the above.
   

• My Documents and Settings. As Everybody’s Documents and Settings but for the current logged on User only, you may want to select shared information manually.
   

• My Documents. The current logged on User’s Microsoft Document folder, you must select data folders belonging to other applications manually.
   

• AISBackup Program and Database: This option is used to backup the AISBackup data files, including the registration key file.

The Select Files Form is displayed next.

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