Knowledge base

Microsoft Store (also known as Windows Store) is a digital distribution platform operated by Microsoft.

This article explains how to schedule a new backup job in New Backup Wizard

T-Cloud provides intuitive workflow-based user interface to streamline, automate and scale operations. The infrastructure is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

In this article we present how to restore from HiDrive your backups created with Backup4all.

Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, U.S. that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.

Google Cloud Storage is a scalable cloud-based service provided by Google that allows organizations to store and manage their data securely and cost-effectively.

Azure can be used in Backup4all both as backup destination and backup source. In this article we will explain how to restore a backup from Azure.

OneDrive was designed to allow users to store and access their files from anywhere, on any device, and collaborate with others.

Hitachi Content Platform is a faster object store supporting cloud-native applications and delivering high-performance access for all your data sets optimized to align with hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and private cloud environments.

Hitachi provides best-in-class server and storage virtualization and cloud solutions to achieve better business agility, flexibility & scalability

Some HDD enclosures have a button that allows starting the execution of an associated program. If you have such a device, Backup4all might be configured to run a certain backup job when that button is pressed.

A backup job or a backup tag can be scheduled from the Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Task Scheduler window.

This article explains how to schedule a backup job or backup tag to run at system shutdown.

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

WannaCry is a new type of ransomware attack that infects all the computers in a network and encrypts all data files on each computer. Users should be aware of the risks and should also know the way to protect against malicious Win32/WannaCrypt software attack. If the computer is infected, the user is asked to pay a price in order to access the operating system again. It’s better to prevent the infection than to pay the ransom.

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 backup on two external drives using the daily rotation scheme. You can use the mirror backup type to create an image of the source files or you can create zipped backups using incremental, differential and full backup types.

This article shows how to configure the Portable edition of Backup4all installed on a flash drive, to run a specific backup job or a backup group when you plug in the flash drive. Backup4all can be configured to run a specific job/group when the flash drive is plugged in.

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

This step by step video presentation explains how to set up a backup schedule that ensures an adequate protection for a daily work routine.

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.