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With eHTbackup your Backups are Completely Automatic.
You probably already know that with the eHTbackup online
backup services, backups run completely automatically, and that you
can manually start a backup at any time. But did you also know
that backups are easy to set up?
Setting up your backups is simple.
The first thing that you will do when you start using
the eHTbackup software, is to create a backup set. The backup set
is the list of the files that you want to backup and the schedule
of when you want to back them up. With eHTbackup, you don't have
to choose each and every file that you want to backup. The software
contains wizards that make it easy to pick the files for your backup
set.
You have two options for selecting files. You can
choose files by the folders that they are in or by their file types.
You would choose by folder if, for example, you wanted to backup every
file in My Documents. You would simply select the My Documents
folder from a Windows Explorer-like view of your hard drive.
eHTbackup
allows you to select multiple folders, to exclude certain folders, or
to choose individual files to backup.
The second option of selecting files is by file type.
Built into eHTbackup is a list of commonly used application programs.
For example, you could setup a backup set that backed up all of the
Microsoft Word and Excel data files on your hard drive, by simply clicking
on two boxes (Word and Excel). Every time a backup runs, the
eHTbackup
software would automatically find all of your Word and Excel documents.
To give you even more power for managing your backup sets, you have
the option of including or excluding specific folders or even excluding
specific types of files.
Once you finish selecting what to backup, you can have
the software calculate how much data you have chosen and estimate how
much data will be backed up post-compression.
Choosing your backup schedule is also very easy.
The software gives you the option of setting a different start time
for each day of the week. You also can choose not to run backups
on certain days. Or, you may want to keep the default schedule,
which is to backup during the night Monday through Friday.
Multiple Backup Sets
In addition to being able to edit or change a backup set,
eHTbackup also allows you to setup multiple backup sets. Multiple backup
sets are useful, for example if you want to backup the same files more
than once a day or backup certain files daily and other files weekly.
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