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4. Carefully read the Summary of actions to be performed during backup and click Proceed if you
are satisfied with the backup task settings, otherwise click Options on the Summary screen to
change the settings.
5. The first optional step offers to schedule the backup task. Scheduling together with a backup
method and automatic consolidation rules allows implementing a desired backup strategy. For
more information see Examples of backup scheduling scenarios (p. 98).
6. Choose a backup method. For a more detailed explanation of the methods see Full, incremental
and differential backups (p. 17). Let's reiterate that selection of the backup method may depend
on the desired backup strategy.
7. At the next step you may exclude certain files and folders from backup, e.g. temporary ones.
8. Set the options for the backup task being created. You can choose to validate the backup
immediately after its creation, though it can be done later.
9. Set the automatic consolidation rules when required by the chosen automatic backup archive
management strategy. For more information see Setting automatic consolidation (p. 64).
10. If you wish, provide comments to the backup. You will also be able to add comments later.
11. Click Proceed when you are satisfied with the backup task settings.