

This way, if your computer would suffer a hardware failure, you’ll have your data safe on an external location. To be sure you have a secure backup, you’ll need to store the backups on other destinations supported by FBackup (such as an external USB/Firewire drive, or on a mapped network drive). By default the location where your backups will be stored is the local windows partition. The option to check for updates can be disabled, but we recommend to let it enabled so that FBackup will be up-to-date. FBackup automatically checks for updates weekly, so you’ll know when a new version is released.If you have to restore files, you’ll open a restore wizard and it will ask you where you want the files to be restored. You start a new backup wizard, select what, where, how and when to backup, and the backup is ready to run. FBackup makes them easy for you, by offering friendly wizards. The two main functions of a backup program are the backup and restore operations.As an after-backup action, you can set it to stand by, log off, hibernate or even shut down the computer once the backup successfully finished. As an example, you can set a “Clear backup” action before the backup runs, so that all the previous backed up files will be clearead before loading the new ones. For each backup job you can define an action to execute before or after the backup.Since FBackup will also back up empty folders, you can use this backup type to create in the destination a “mirror” copy of the original files. If you don’t want to have the files stored in one zip file, FBackup can make exact copies of the backup sources.

Furthermore, you can protect the zip file by requiring a password for extracting data from it. FBackup uses ZIP64 compression, which means that it can create zip files over 2GB in size.
