Personal Backup
© 2001 − 2021, Dr. J. Rathlev
Contents
Overview
Installation and update
First steps
Control panel
Program preferences
Backup tasks
Editing a backup task
Adding directories
Selection of directories and files
Task settings
Other options
Regular expressions
Log file
Performing backups
Running a backup manually
Using Desktop shortcuts
Time-controlled automatic backups
Automatic backups using Windows Task Scheduler
Personal Backup in the Windows notification area
Restore data from backup
Creating and editing restore tasks
Restoring single files and files from zip archives
Tools
Verification of backed up files
Creating and editing verify tasks
Clean up a backup directory
Creating and editing clean-up tasks
Command line options
Keyboard shortcuts
Utility programs and tips
Alternating backups using Windows Task Scheduler
Start Backup under different account
Backup of Thunderbird data
Real-time backup of data
Tutorials for special problems
Notes on current version
Appendix
J. Rathlev, 24222 Schwentinental, Germany, January 2021