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• Whether the selected disk (or the selected partition) will be copied in the sector-to-sector mode (including

unused sectors as well).

• Whether the OS auxiliary files (pagefile.sys, hyberfil.sys) will be included in the backup image.

• Whether backup images stored in the Archive Database will be processed during the backup operation.

Skipping backups of the Archive Database may considerably decrease the resulted image

file and time to carry out the operation.

• Recording speed when the user wants to burn the backup image onto CD/DVDs.

• ISO image folder where the archive that is to be recorded on a disc, is placed.

• Whether the operation will be performed without rebooting the system. The program needs to reboot the

system in order to have exclusive access to processing data. In a Windows environment this is difficult to

achieve because even when all the other applications are closed, the system service programs are still running.

However, there is a way to avoid rebooting. The mode of processing the backup operation without rebooting is

named Hot Processing. You can also define specific parameters for the Hot Processing mode.

• The data to be automatically excluded from the resulted backup.

By default the program will take into account exclude filters set in the

Settings dialog.

Result

After the backup operation is completed you receive an image of the selected disk (or the selected partition). This image

is placed into the specified destination, its features defined by the wizard.

Dialog Work Algorithm

All backup dialogs share similar work algorithm as well. Unlike wizards, settings of a backup dialog concentrate on a

single page. That’s why it cannot boast high level of the self-descriptiveness. Anyway with the context sensitive hint

system you can get an in-depth description to any setting, control, or field of the dialog just by clicking the hint button

and then the object you need.

We recommend the program’s dialogs for experienced users mostly.

So let us just take as an example the Partition Backup Dialog to describe its work algorithm.

Startup

In order to start the operation you should take the following steps:

1. Select a partition on the Disk Map;

2. Call the Partition Backup Dialog to set up the operation. There are several ways to do it:

- Select in the Main menu: Partition > Back Up Partition.

- Call the popup menu for the selected partition (right click of the mouse button) then select the menu item:

Back Up Partition…