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• 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.

• Whether the archive will be split (if yes, you can set the maximum size for the archive files).

Splitting images enables to tackle problems caused by a maximum file size limitation of

some file systems.

• Whether image file names will be set automatically in complex archives.

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

• Whether the selected partition will be copied in the sector-to-sector mode (including unused sectors as well).

• 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.

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

Settings dialog.

You’ve got no option to change them directly from this dialog.

Result

After the backup operation is completed you receive an image of the selected partition. This image is placed into the

specified destination, its features defined by the dialog.

Available operation scenarios:

• Backing up a hard disk or partition to the Backup Capsule

• Backing up a hard disk or partition to external media (CD/DVD)

• Backing up a hard disk or partition to a network drive

• Backing up a hard disk or partition to an FTP server

• Backing up a dual boot Mac to an external USB drive

• Backing up files to a local mounted/unmounted (without drive letter assigned) partition

• Creating a differential to a full partition backup

• Creating an increment to a full partition backup

• Creating an increment to a full file backup

• Backing up with Smart Backup Wizard

• Creating a cyclic partition backup