Hey YouTube, it's Daniel here, just wanted to give you another tip here on
backing up. Specifically for a friend of mine that asked me about how to backup
to an external hard drive. He got one, so we're going to use a
program here called Cobian backup and how to use that. There's so many
different programs out there that you can use, and copy and paste methods that
don't involve any software, but we want to do something here with this software.
It can automate the process, because most of the time you're going to be backing
up the same files or at least the same folders that contain different files, but
as long as it's within that same folder like my documents for example, or stuff
on your desktop, you can just tell it look for whatever's in those locations,
back that up. Then with a click of a button you got everything backed up.
Anyway, let's have a look at the software. There's many different backups available
online that you can use. Different ways of backing up. This is one here, Cobian Backup.
If you do a Google search for Cobian Backup, the first thing in the
list, you can click on it, it takes you to their website.
and on that page, the first item is the latest version of this program, which you
can download. You can save it or run it, doesn't matter, it's a small file, so you
can just hit run and will start immediately. Hit yes. Now depending if
you're on XP or Vista or Windows 7, you may get more prompts to install as
you're going along. Now if nothing shows up on your screen, like it's doing to me,
you can minimize what's up there currently, so now we can see this was
hiding in behind that window. I'll just hit OK, accept the terms, next, and you can
change these options, but really we're just going to accept the defaults and
everything will be fine. Now actually, but this one here, I wouldn't leave it to go
as a service, just in case. If you know the login information or you have
special things with the services, it may not work properly. So I do it as an
application and auto start for all users. So it doesn't matter who logs in it's
going to run this program.
Next, it goes through, it says it's installing. Now for me, that I've already
had the program installed. So of course it's going through an uninstall first.
But for you, you would just get this window.
and it's done. Installation completed successfully. Done.
and it's done, that's it. Now down by your time, you're going to see this little red
mushroom which says Cobian back up and the version of it. If you hover the mouse
over it, and if you double click on it, it opens up the program. So now I've already
got a backup setup here, but what we're going to do is go through a new one.
So you'd hit this to create a new task, and give it a name if you want, any name.
Daily, or or just leave it. It doesn't really matter. You don't really need to
change anything here. Something important here is this feature here, if UnChecked
existing backups will be overwritten. Ideally, you want to have it checked and it will
create separate backups using timestamps. So you can have multiple backups on
different days on the same drive, which is great. A full backup if it's not a
massive amount of data to backup, it's a good idea to do a full backup every time.
If it's 100 gigs worth a data, you probably want to do it as an incremental.
So it's only going to backup files that were changed since the last backup,
rather than doing everything full. Then you got a differential, which is
similar but it only backs up the files changed since the last full backup.
So this can increase in size with each backup, but the incremental will pretty
much be the same size each backup. It's only changed files.
The next step is choosing what files you want to backup. So we go and Add,
Directory, and choose probably your desktop and your My Documents...
You know, maybe Downloads, that sort of thing. So you would choose what it is you
want to backup, and with each folder
it will list them here. Then you've got the destination, where you want it to
back up to. Now I've already got something in here. I had it going to the F Drive.
So you can choose a directory, and whatever the drive letter is of your
external hard drive. You can hit the arrows to the left of each thing here to
minimize and maximize, or expand and so on. Choose where it's going to backup to.
So it shows the destination. So now you've got what's being backed up and
where is it going to. That's the most basic thing right there, and in the
General tab is where we chose this option of keeping them separate. So this
is all... if you get this wrong doesn't even matter, as long as it's doing at
least a full backup, you you can't even go too wrong on here at all. Just where is
it coming from, where is it going to, and then your schedule. By default it's set
to go to daily and you can set up a schedule.
I like the manual route. So you can just go down and choose manually from the
drop-down menu, and don't even worry about these other features. This is
something else we can get into on another video, but basically get that going.
Once it's all set up, I just canceled out of it, but you would hit OK.
You can see what's being backed up, where is it going to, and what's the
total size of the backup. Now you guys know how much stuff I'm backing up. lol
...and the other options that you've chosen.
So you can see all the detail about it here, and you can see I do mine manually.
That's it! So when you open this program. You would highlight this and hit
to run the selected task. Or run all the tasks. If there's only one, it doesn't
matter which one you choose.
One other feature now, is if you go to tools and options.
I just got to show you this because this is very helpful. Go to
Visuals, and there is show percent in the progress bar. By default that is not
turned on. So you want to check that on and hit OK. Then it will show the
percentage of each file as it's backing up as well as the overall progress.
This is great to watch while it's backing up. When it's done, you can see a history of
the backups, that they were being done; and you'll see a log at the very end.
It'll have black text going all the way down, and as long as there is no red text,
then everything should have worked properly.
A best way to find out that your backups are working, which you
should always do, is actually just go into my computer and open up that drive letter.
Browse to the location where it backed up, and make sure the files are actually there.
That's pretty much it!
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