Backup2005 Pro   - User Guide and FAQ

• 1st rule : backup often an earlier.Don't wait to back up. Depending of your computer activity, backing up data every month is not enough. In professional usage, you must back up your data every day and even several times a day. For home computing, at least once a week.
  Backup can be done transparently when you schedule it.
• 2nd rule : backup or copy data to external devices.Never backup data from C:\ to D:\ when C and D are 2 partitions on the same disk !
  Using external hard disk in combination with network drive is a good strategy. You can copy data to an USB drive through the Backup2005 Pro Synchronizer and back up those data to a network drive. But don't forget to place the external device in a secure place when you leave your office.
• 3rd rule : encrypt your strategic data, especially when data are backed up or copied to an external device or removable medium.
• 4th rule : check the disk partition system.Often users are ignoring the disk partition in use. FAT32 limits the file size. You can use Windows XP but your disk partition can be a FAT32. Never move a file > 2 (Windows 9x/Me) or 4 (Windows 2000,NT,XP) GB from an NTFS disk partition to a FAT32 one. The archive file will be corrupted.
• 5th rule : don't build gigantic backup set.Creating an unique backup set on the root of your main drive (e.g. C:\) is not recommended. A backup software is not a disk image software.
• 6th rule : never never never remove data from your computer without checking the status of your archive files.

Frequently Asked Questions - Backup2005 Pro

1. Scheduled task does not run.
   Backup2005 Pro creates a scheduled task in the Windows Task Scheduler.
   Windows Task scheduler needs a user account with password to run any task when the user is not logged off.
   This is the main error, but other reasons are also possible. If you use a drive letter (C:\...) instead of an UNC path (\\computer\C\...) and add a new drive. The drive letter can now point to another source (or destination). If you run Backup2005 Pro on a laptop check the task if the 'Don't start on battery' property is checked.
   
   
2. Using a mapped drive letter instead of an UNC path in a scheduled backup set .
   Mapped drive is only recognized by the operating system when the user is logged on. So if the job is executed when the user is logged off the mapped drive is unknown and the backup job will fail.
   
   
3. Back up data from a NTFS disk partition to a FAT32 partition .
   In a network environment one can find both disk partitions. Sometimes one use an old Windows 98 to back up data from a Windows 2000 or XP computer. Generally Windows 2000 and XP use NTFS then Windows 98 was installed on FAT32 partition. If you back up more than 2 GB of data the archive file will be corrupted. If you wish to back up data in a such configuration just take care of the data size (use the evaluate function if needed).