Create A New Backup Plan

EzOpenBackup Plus! comes with easy to understand user interface screens that make application configuration easy and management effective. As you can see from following picture that all you need to do to create a new Backup Plan is to click a few buttons.

Issues involved in creating a new backup plan:

• Backup source - must be on the same system of EzOpenBackup Plus! application
• Backup destination - local or Remote
• Backup schedule - daily or hourly

To see explanations on other topics related to scheduled backup, click here.

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Following gives details of each step in creating a new backup plan.

Click button New Plan in the main dialog box to begin creating a backup plan.

• Backup Plan Name: Notice that a default Backup Plan Name is filled with a date-time string of the date and time plan is created. User can change this name if desired.
  
  
• Backup Area: This area defines Backup source locations. All backup source files must be on the local system of EzOpenBackup Plus!.
  
  Two schemes are utilized to allocate the backup source:
  
  1. By file path - file filters of inclusion or exclusion can be applied to files in the named file path
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  2. By application - restrict to files created by the listed application(s) in the named file path
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• Backup Destination: A secondary backup destination is provided to satisfy the needs of multiple location backup. FTP connection is provided to support remote backup.
  
  

  

  
  
• Versions: Each time a file is modified, two thing will happen in the backup destination folder:
  1. the newly-modified file is saved in the LastBackup folder
  2. the file was in the LastBackup folder is pushed to the PreviousBackup folder to become the last version of the file.
     
     

     Explanation on the file backup versions

     
     
     • The default number of versions for each modified file is 9
     • The maximum number of versions is 999
     • Users can change it to the number desired
     • The file push out follows the rule of first in first out should modified version exceeding the setup version number
     
     
• Backup Schedule: This part of setup is quite straight forward. Check and select the ways you want to backup: by day or by hour, and then set the time.