Today we will speak about a very important software: Backup 1.7<\/p>\n
The purpose of the program is to facilitate making backups from a\u00a0source drive\/directory to a destination drive\/directory. The\u00a0progam is designed to work with directory device drivers, e.g.\u00a0win, dev, flp, mdv etc. – but NOT with serial devices such as ser\u00a0or net.<\/p>\n
The program has 4 different areas, of which only the first one\u00a0will have anything in it when starting the program.
\nA – First comes the menu bar where the menu items are, from left\u00a0to right:<\/p>\n
Move the window
\nResize the window
\nS – Source : lets you choose the source drive\/directory.
\nF3- Options menu : shows some options for operations.
\nA – All : this selects\/deselects all itmes in the current tab.
\nD – Destination : lets you choose the destination drive\/directory.
\nG – Go : reads the soure & destination drives and checks which
\nfiles should be backed up BUT DOES NOT BACK THEM UP.
\nButton : move program to a button in the button frame.<\/p>\n
B – The Tab area, where different tabs for different\u00a0backup options are presented.<\/p>\n
C – The sort area, where you can sort the files\u00a0according to three criteria : Name, Date and Size: just click on a\u00a0header and the displayed files will be sorted according to that\u00a0criteria. If you click on the same header again, the sort will be\u00a0inversed (ascending\/descending).<\/p>\n
D – The files area which displays the files\u00a0corresponding to the current tab.<\/p>\n
Setting the destination and source drives\/directories and hitting the “G”\u00a0key or the Go item. The program then reads the source &\u00a0destination drives\/directories and checks which files should be\u00a0presented for backup BUT DOES NOT BACK THEM UP: it presents lists\u00a0of files in the different tabs.<\/p>\n
Now right-click (or hit ENTER) when the mouse pointer is over a\u00a0file in a tab. You are presented with a menu giving you choices\u00a0for diffferent backup actions, which are all self-explanatory.\u00a0Again, some tabs may show files which might be NEWER on the\u00a0destination drive and which you do not wish to overwrite.<\/p>\n
One tab shows files which cannot be backed up at all because the\u00a0destination filename would be too long.<\/p>\n
The program can create, on the destination, all subdirectories\u00a0that exist on the source, including the main destination
\ndirectory. So, if you want to backup from, say, “win1_” to\u00a0“win2_backup_”, then the program can create all subdirectories
\nthat exist under “win1_” in “win2_backup_” and it will also create\u00a0“win2_backup_” itself if that doesn’t exist.<\/p>\n
The program can show up to six different tabs.<\/p>\n
The “All” tab.
\nShows a summary of all files that are contained in all of the\u00a0other tabs.<\/p>\n
The “Non existing” tab.
\nShows all files that exist on the source but not on the\u00a0destination. This tab does NOT show files that exist on the\u00a0destination but not on the source.<\/p>\n
The “Different dates” tab.
\nThis tab will show all files that have different dates on the\u00a0source and destination – independently of whether the source or\u00a0the destination files are newer. HOWEVER : If the “Different\u00a0dates: Show only files that are newer on source” item is selected\u00a0in the F3 options menu, then this tab will only show files that\u00a0are newer on the source drive than on the destination drive. This\u00a0is probably what one wants for backup purposes.<\/p>\n
The “Different sizes” tab.
\nShows all files that have different sizes in the source and\u00a0destination directories, independently of which of the files is
\nnewer, on source or on destination!<\/p>\n
The “Different type” tab.
\nShows files where the filetype differs between source and\u00a0destination. Again, this doesNOT mean that the source files are
\nnewer!<\/p>\n
The “Too long” tab.
\nThis shows files that can’t be backed up because the name on the\u00a0destination drive\/directory would be too long. For example, if\u00a0you’re trying to back up a file called “this_is_a_long_filename”\u00a0from win1_ to “win2_very_long_dirname_”, you won’t be able to do\u00a0this as the name on the destination exceeds the maximum filename\u00a0length allowed.<\/p>\n
The programs only shows those tabs where something might be filled\u00a0in : if there are no files that have a different type on the\u00a0source and the destination, then the “Different type” tab will not\u00a0be shown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today we will speak about a very important software: Backup 1.7 The purpose of the program is to facilitate making backups from a\u00a0source \n [..more...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunggartorino.it\/ql\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}