With iDataGuard Your Backups Are Completely Automatic.

You probably already know that with the iDataGuard online backup services, backups run completely automatically, and that you can manually start a backup at any time. But did you also know that backups are easy to set up?

Setting up your backups is simple.
The first thing that you will do when you start using the iDataGuard software is to create a backup set. The backup set is the list of the files that you want to backup and the schedule of when you want to back them up. With iDataGuard, you don't have to choose each and every file that you want to backup. The software contains wizards that make it easy to pick the files for your backup set.

You have two options for selecting files. You can choose files by the folders that they are in or by their file types. You would choose by folder if, for example, you wanted to backup every file in My Documents. You would simply select the My Documents folder from a Windows Explorer-like view of your hard drive. iDataGuard allows you to select multiple folders, to exclude certain folders, or to choose individual files to backup.

The second option of selecting files is by file type. Built into iDataGuard is a list of commonly used application programs. For example, you could setup a backup set that backed up all of the Microsoft Word and Excel data files on your hard drive, by simply clicking on two boxes (Word and Excel). Every time a backup runs, the iDataGuard software would automatically find all of your Word and Excel documents. To give you even more power for managing your backup sets, you have the option of including or excluding specific folders or even excluding specific types of files.

Once you finish selecting what to backup, you can have the software calculate how much data you have chosen and estimate how much data will be backed up post-compression.

Choosing your backup schedule is also very easy. The software gives you the option of setting a different start time for each day of the week. You also can choose not to run backups on certain days. Or, you may want to keep the default schedule, which is to backup during the night Monday through Friday.

Multiple Backup Sets
In addition to being able to edit or change a backup set, iDataGuard also allows you to setup multiple backup sets. Multiple backup sets are useful, for example if you want to backup the same files more than once a day or backup certain files daily and other files weekly.