User Guide

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Creating automatic backups
When y ou select to have Safe & Sound automatically create a backup set for
you, it creates the first bac kup set w hile yo u are stepping through the Safe &
Sound Wizard. Th ereafter, while the Enable Automatic Ba ckup option is
selected, it continues to update your backup set at the time delay you’ve
specified. If you chose to make Mirrorb ackups, Safe & Sound updates your
backup set at the same time that you resave the original source files.
If you selecta write-behinddelay longer than z ero seconds (aM irror backup),
Safe& Sou nd updatesthe backups et atanytimeafterthespecifiedtime delay
when you r PC is idle. This allo ws Safe & Sound to work in the backgro u nd so
thatit doesnot interruptthe w ork you are doing. Thisis a good option to use
with t he protected volume fil e backup type since it eliminates any speed loss
due to more frequent disk accesses and larger file sizes associated with the
protected volume file backup type.
Defining your backup strategy
After you decide which backup type you want to use (either a protected
volume file or a directory backup set ) , the most importantquestions you must
answer when defining your own backup strategy are:
• Where will you store the b ackup set?
• Whatfilesareimportant(whichfilesmustbebackedup)?
• How often should you or Safe & Sound make these backups?
Storing the backup set
The most economical way of making backu ps has traditionally been to copy
data to 3.5-inch d isks, though this is the most labor intensive way of storing
backups becau se it requires yo u t o switch disks by ha nd.
In addition, you may w ant the backup copy to be stored at a r emote location,
for increa sed protection. As long as Safe & S ound can access a logical drive
mapped on your PC, it can store the backup s et there. That is, the backup s et
can be stored on a shared networ k d rive.
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NOTE: YoucanusetheMapNetworkDrivecommand,availableby
Right-clicking My Computer, to assign (map) a d rive letter to a location
on a network driv e . Thi s makes that location a “logical drive” o n your
PC. For more details, see your Windows online Help.