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Backup4all supports multiple clouds as backup destination.

Hubic is a service developed by OVH which enables you to save documents such as photos and videos online, in a totally private secure space, to share them with who you choose, and to make them available on various devices: computers, tablets, smartphones.

This is a step-by-step guide on how to restore a backup from Amazon S3 using Backup4all. Amazon S3 is a storage service that you can use to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. It's scalable, so it can grow as your needs grow. It's available, so you can always access your data. It's secure, so your data is safe. And it's fast, so you can get to your data quickly.

This article presents step-by-step instructions for how to deal with Access Denied error when trying to schedule a backup job using Backup4all.

This tutorial shows you how you can create a new scheduled task by using the Windows Task Scheduler. Creating a new task is a good way to test if your Windows user account has enough permissions.

Backup4all does not need third party drivers or other cd burning software or DVD burning software installed (like ActiveX, ASPI, etc) to be able to burn a CD, DVD or a Blu-ray. The application has a built-in CD, DVD, and Blu-ray burner to backup to CD, DVD or Blu-ray discs directly.

The Backup on demand page of the Options window (accessible from File menu item) contains settings for the one touch button of some USB/FireWire devices.

This article shows you how to restore a backup from a CD/DVD/Blu-ray to another computer.

This article explains how you can define a backup job in Backup4all that will back-up your data from Microsoft Azure.

There are situations when in backup destination folder exists other files which are not part of the backup. In such a case you can use the "Clean destination folder" feature from Backup4all.

There could be cases when the user deletes by mistake some files in backup destination, or if the files are corrupt.

This article explains how to configure backup jobs to run sequentially. A backup job (a tag or group of jobs) can be configured to run right after another backup job is finished.

For Mirror backup type, there is an option allowing you to remove from destination the files deleted in source. This way the source and destination will contain the same files.

In this article we will describe the most common situations when the source files are not backed up. If you have a similar situation, this article will guide you to make the necessarily changes.

When using the Smart, Full, Differential or Incremental backup types, the resulted backup will be compressed in one or multiple .zip archives.

When you close Backup4all, it saves the last window position. If you used multiple screens and now one of them is missing, the Backup4all window will be open on its last position.

Backup4all supports backing up to Microsoft's Azure cloud service. This is a practical backup destination because the backed up data can be easily accessed from any other computer with an Internet connection.Defining an Azure configuration Before using

This article explains how to generate a self signed certificate. A self-signed certificate is an identity certificate signed by its own creator. That is, the person that created the certificate also signed off on its legitimacy.

Backup4all needs to be activated after purchasing a license. If you have an active Internet connection the easiest way to activate Backup4all is automatically online. However, if you do not have an active Internet connection, this article describes how to manually activate Backup4all.

This section contains answers for frequent questions regarding the registration process of Backup4all.

When running a backup, Backup4all application will create the zip file locally and then it will upload the zip file in destination.

When performing a large incremental backup to an FTP destination, it may take a lot of time for the first backup to complete (because the first backup is a full backup so all files will be included in it). If you have physical access to the FTP destination server, it takes less time to run the first backup locally, move the backup file to the FTP, and after that continue doing the incremental backups directly to the FTP destination. This article will explain how to perform this backup.

This backup strategy consists of the following operations: performing incremental backups each day Monday through Thursday, performing differential backups each week on Friday, performing cleanup operations (to erase incrementals) each week on Friday, performing full backups in the last Saturday of the month, performing cleanup operations (to erase differentials) in the last Saturday of the month

Performing a large backup to a remote destination might take a lot of time for the first backup to complete (because the first backup is a complete backup so all files will be included in it). If you have physical access to the remote destination, it takes less time to run the first backup to an external drive, then move the backup files to remote destination and after that continue the backups directly to the remote destination. The remote destination can be a network drive, a NAS, an FTP/SFTP server or even a cloud destination.

This article explains the security certificates role and how they are handled by browsers.