Migo PC BackUp Manual

Everybody knows that it is smart to back up important files. With Migo PC Backup, Migo Software's smart and powerful backup software, protection is easy to setup so that your backups happen automatically.

Migo PC BackUp takes the hassle out of making backups, so that you won't have to remember when to do it, or struggle to replace a missing or damaged file. You just select your options and the frequency it backs up, and are rest assured that your valuable files are protected.

Migo PC BackUp is the ideal solution for securing your photo memories, family movies, and important documents.

The PCBackup Wizards are a step-by-step guide to help you create a backup set, perform a copy task, restore files and create disaster recovery discs. If at any time during the use of the Wizards you would like to go back to previous screens, simply click on the Back button. If you would like to cancel the Wizard and go to the main user interface, click on the Cancel button. Clicking Next will take you to the next screen once the options have been selected on the current screen. This screen is the introductory screen to the PCBackup Backup/Restore Wizard.

Backup
This feature allows you to back up all of the content of your C: drive, the files and folders in you’re my Documents directory, or select the files or folders you want to back up manually.

Disaster Recovery
Choose this option to make a Disaster Recovery Compliant Backup. This wull automatically select critical files for backup in addition to your own file selections.

To begin a restoration of your data that has previously been backed up, simply click on the “Restore” Wizard shortcut on the Home screen. On this screen, find all files from previous backups that you can restore your files or system from. You can specify whether you want to restore all of your data or specific folders/ files. When restoring, you can elect to overwrite existing data based on the following options:

Do not overwrite existing files: Restored file will never overwrite an existing file of the same name on the destination.

Overwrite existing files if they are older: Restored file will overwrite an existing file of the same name on the destination if the destination file is older.

Overwrite existing file: Restored file will always overwrite an existing file of the same name on the destination.

When a backup is made Disaster Recovery compliant, PCBackup will add a few things to the backup set. Although it may be a considerable amount of data, it will help protect you from a complete data disaster.

PCBackup adds the following items to your backup set:

• PCBackup Runtime Directory
• System State
• PCBackup Database Plugin
• The “Windows” Directory
• Documents and Settings
• The “Program Files” Directory

A Disaster Recovery Backup can be created with the PCBackup Wizard or through the main backup screen.

In the event of a complete disaster, a Disaster Recovery Boot Disc will allow you to recover your operating system prior to recovering the data and settings contained in your Disaster Recovery compliant backup. DR Boot Discs do not contain the information normally backed up in a normal PCBackup data backup. In the event of a complete system failure, you will need both the DR Boot Disc and your normal backup.

To create a Disaster Recovery Boot Disk, select “Create Disaster Recovery Boot Disc” from the PCBackup Wizard. It is recommended that you create a Disaster Recovery Boot Disc the first time you run a Disaster Recovery compliant backup or anytime you change your operating system or make hardware changes you may need to recreate. Please be aware that a Disaster Recovery Boot Disc does not include system level drivers such as USB. You will need to obtain drivers from the hardware manufacturer, which may be loaded by pressing F6 during the bootup of the Disaster Recovery Boot Disc.

After you select the DR Boot Disc radio button, an initial information screen will come up which reminds you that you will need to have your Windows Setup of System Recovery disc available to complete the process.

Depending on your system configuration, you can have special security configurations for files, drives and/or subdirectories. PCBackup has full support for this information. This data is backed up each time you backup your registry. Please note that this information will ONLY be restored if you restore your registry, it is not stored on a file-by-file basis due to potential security issues.

Details on Backing Up System State Data System state data is comprised of the following files:

• Boot files, including the system files, and all files protected by Windows File
Protection (WFP).
• Active Directory (on a domain controller only).
• Sysvol (on a domain controller only).
• Certificate Services (on certification authority only).
• Cluster database (on a cluster node only).
• The registry.
• Performance counter configuration information.
• Component Services Class registration database.

The system state data can be backed up in any order. Restoration of the system state replaces boot files first and commits the system hive of the registry as a final step in the process. System state backup and restore operations include all system state data: you cannot choose to back up or restore individual components due to dependencies among the system state components. However, you can restore system state data to an alternate location in which only the registry files, Sysvol directory files, and system boot files are restored. The Active Directory database, Certificate Services database, and Component Services Class Registration database are not restored to the alternate location. You cannot change which components of the system state are backed up.

The Device tab shows a list of all available backup devices. The descriptions on the list will include the backup devices available, their type, total capacity, available capacity, and their file systems. Please note that any changes made to the devices using the Device Tab will only take effect once you start a new backup or restart the program.

Double-clicking on a hard drive will bring you to this pop-up window. Here, you can designate the Data Chunking size when backing up to that specific device. You also have the option to designate how much disk space to leave free should the hard drive reach its maximum capacity during the backup.

Double-clicking on a CD or DVD device that is shown on your device listing will bring up a CD-R / CD-RW / DVD-R / DVD-RW Device Properties screen that will help you manage your CD or DVD drive in conjunction with PCBackup.

Using the logs can be quite beneficial if PCBackup reports an error during the backup or restore process.

To delete a log file, simply select the log file and press the Delete button. To delete multiple log files, you may select more than one by using the Shift and/or Ctrl buttons on your keyboard to select the logs and pressing the Delete button.

To view the log file, select the log you would like to open and press the View button. Alternatively, you may also simply double-click the log file you would like to open.

Setting your logging preferences can be done from the Program Options window, the Backup
Options window, or the Restore Options window. (To do so, either select Global Settings from the Home view, select the "Settings" button on the Backup tab, or select the "Settings" button on the Restore tab.)

Filters consist of a collection of user-specified file types that should be always included or always excluded from your backup job. Filters save you time or ensure that certain files types or folders are always included in your backup. Examples of files that may be large and you may not want to always backup includes MP3 or pictures that you already have stored on a separate disk. A filter can be applied to the backup job to take care of the issue.

To Include Wildcard Filters:

1. Once you have reached the Include Filter screen, verify that you are applying the
filter to the correct directory or folder.
2. Check the Include Subfolders box to ensure that you apply the filter to not only the
files within the folder, but also the subfolders and the files they contain.
• Filter Files will allow you to apply the filter specific files or file types
within a folder or subfolder.
• Filter Folders will allow you to apply filters to folders and folder names.

Using schedules to automate your backups is a great way to make backing up your data a no-hassle task. Whether you want to back up your files once, hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly, the scheduling feature in PCBackup has the solution for you. As an alternative, you may also use the Task Scheduler built into all Windows Operating Systems.

Using the Windows Task Scheduler instead of the PCBackup Scheduler will give you two more
options not available in PCBackup. The options to run the backup when your computer starts or when you log on are available only in the Windows Task Scheduler. However, using PCBackup’s Scheduler will allow you to run the backup immediately after the set up as well as scheduling it for later automatic backups.

Importing a backup from media may become necessary if your machine crashes or you wish to
restore a backup created on one computer to another computer. The process is simple. To get the backup contents into the current, local PCBackup database (and therefore be able to select files, folders and drives for restoration), follow these steps: From the Restore tab, first click on the "Import" button located near the bottom of the screen. Alternatively, you can select "Import Backup Job" from the Launch button.

If you run the import from the Restore tab, you will receive an Import Source selection screen. (If selecting import source from the toolbar, you will forgo this window.)

• If your import source is disk, then you will be given an "open file" dialog box. You
should browse to the media you would like to import and press "Open." A progress window
will then appear and the import process will begin immediately.
• If your import source is tape, then you will see a Tape Drive selection screen.

If you are importing from a complete set of spanned media, you should always select the first piece of media as your first import. PCBackup will then prompt you to insert each subsequent piece of media if necessary. It is necessary to have the complete backup, all media, available to do the restore. If your backup consists of 5 pieces of media and media #3 is corrupt/missing/ damaged, you will only be able to restore data from the first two pieces of media.

After importing the media, it may be necessary to press the "Refresh" button on the Restore tab. All imported backups will appear under an "Imported Backups" heading in the Media View.