http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ Discussion forum for FBackup users. en Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:03:08 +0000 http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/scheduled-bakups#post-3594 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:46:02 +0000 Admin 3594@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>In FBackup you can keep only one version of the backup.<br /> If you want to keep multiple versions of the backup, please use our commercial edition: <a href="http://www.Backup4all.com">Backup4all</a> </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/scheduled-bakups#post-3580 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:20:53 +0000 dilgeer 3580@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Dears,<br /> I have installed the FBackup on Windows 2003 Server and its working fine.<br /> My question/problem is that I want to take full backups of the folder on daily basis, I have scheduled it and it executes fine, the problem comes that when it takes backup on Day 2; it deletes the backup of day 1 (means previous day backup is deleted)!<br /> So, how can I solve this problem, that each day is saved and available!</p> <p>Waiting for advice...</p> <p>Dilgeer </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/incredibly-slow-backup#post-3420 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:59:31 +0000 Admin 3420@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Please try to copy a large file from source to destination using Windows Explorer. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/incredibly-slow-backup#post-3419 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:30:27 +0000 cameraz 3419@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>How do I check to see what the read/write speed should be? Thanks. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/incredibly-slow-backup#post-3415 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:16:47 +0000 Admin 3415@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>The backup time should be only few hours.<br /> Please make sure there is no read/write speed problem. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/incredibly-slow-backup#post-3412 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:38:35 +0000 cameraz 3412@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>I am in the process of backing up portions of three hard drives to a 1TB drive. I have an approximate total of 100GB of video, photo and music files on these drives. The backup has been going on for eight (8) days (DAYS!) now. </p> <p>I know 100 GB is a lot of data, but eight days? I expect it will be another two days before this backup is completed.</p> <p>Btw, all of the source drives are 7200 rpm, two are internal drives, the other is connected by USB. The destination drive is also USB. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/username-and-password#post-3387 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:26:50 +0000 Admin 3387@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>On a daily basis, you should use Mirror backup to copy only new and modified files. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/username-and-password#post-3356 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:52:19 +0000 ChrisG 3356@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Thanks! </p> <p>Changing to the built-in scheduler worked a treat last night. This morning I have a successful backup message.</p> <p>One more question if you have time - I am a bit confused about the difference between full back up and mirror back up. Is mirror the best to use from now on, so that it just adds any new files or files that have been changed? Does a full back up take much longer, and therefore not necessary to do on a daily basis? The descriptions given for each type of backup do not make it really clear (to me anyway) when or why to select one or the other. Thanks for your help. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/username-and-password#post-3335 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:57:42 +0000 Admin 3335@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>If you select "With Windows Scheduler" option in Backup Properties->Scheduler, you need to use your Windows login username and password.</p> <p>If you don't have a password, you can use the second option "With Built-in scheduler" which does not require a password. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/username-and-password#post-3334 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:05:32 +0000 ChrisG 3334@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>My hard drive was corrupted and replaced and FBackup 4.6 was started again but with a different username to the original one entered by the technician. A manual full backup worked the first day, but with 7 warnings. It was scheduled to then backup daily, but for a week now has not worked. When I try to edit the scheduler it won't accept any password and it also won't allow me to leave the password empty. I have tried all passwords that might be relevant, but none are accepted. I have tried using the original username and password but that is not accepted. I have changed to mirror backup but that still does not work. How can I get the backup to happen daily as required? I would appreciate any suggestions. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/close-window-after-backup-completes#post-3309 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:29:58 +0000 coffeethecat 3309@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Ah ha! Thanx so much for your help. BTW - FBackup outperforms PAID versions of backup software - hands down - this is one of the best software backup programs available. Thanx for making it available. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/close-window-after-backup-completes#post-3303 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:09:12 +0000 Admin 3303@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>If the backup is scheduled and FBackup is started by the scheduler, you have the option to automatically close it after run.<br /> That option is in Backup Properties->Scheduler->Add->Close after run. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/close-window-after-backup-completes#post-3298 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:03:32 +0000 coffeethecat 3298@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>I've noticed that all of my backup jobs, when finished, do not close the FBackup window. Is there a setting some where that I can toggle to get these windows to close upon completion of my backup jobs? Thanx </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/not-backng-up-folders#post-3241 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:22:38 +0000 Admin 3241@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Please send us the last backup log to info[at]fbackup[dot]com </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/not-backng-up-folders#post-3239 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:23:49 +0000 thedavis 3239@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Have used for some time. Now (all of a sudden) FBackup does not back up all folders I have checked. Used new external drives - mirror - made sure folders were not locked etc. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/is-fbackup-incremental#post-3156 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:50:11 +0000 RhysAndrews 3156@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>I'll see how I go with that :) THanks mate. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/is-fbackup-incremental#post-3155 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:43:16 +0000 RhysAndrews 3155@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>I see! I thought it was the other way around. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/is-fbackup-incremental#post-3150 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:08:38 +0000 Admin 3150@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Do you use the Full or the Mirror backup type? Please note the Full type will back up all files every time, while the Mirror backup type will copy only new and modified files. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/is-fbackup-incremental#post-3147 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:18:38 +0000 RhysAndrews 3147@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hey guys,<br /> Windows 7 Backup lagged the crap out of my computer and I just didn't feel overly trusting of it. Also it takes up heaps of space on my backup drive.</p> <p>FBackup seemed like a powerful and lightweight solution. I set a full backup to happen every night at 5am, in hopes that after the first full backup, all nightly backups would only take a few minutes to update any files that were changed.</p> <p>But it's currently 11am and it's only 75% through backing up - this is almost a week into the schedule. Every night has been the same. </p> <p>Please let me know if there is anything you need to help troubleshoot this, or if there's a quick answer to it all :) Thanks!</p> <p>-Rhys </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/create-backup-templates#post-3029 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:14:49 +0000 Admin 3029@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>In Backup4all you can create and use your own plugins.<br /> Please read this article for more details: <a href="http://www.backup4all.com/kb/how-to-create-a-backup-plugin-161.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.backup4all.com/kb/how-to-create-a-backup-plugin-161.html</a> </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/create-backup-templates#post-3025 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:13:12 +0000 BenHartless 3025@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hello!</p> <p>We have an environment here where we would like to not have to manually change the settings each time we install on a user's machine. Would also be nice to import the folder locations each time. This might have been covered, but I thought I'd ask again. Thanks! </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/is-there-a-backup-on-shutdown-option#post-2961 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:36:38 +0000 bruce 2961@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for the answer.<br /> This may do it - will experiment with the suggested procedure. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/is-there-a-backup-on-shutdown-option#post-2953 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:45:56 +0000 Admin 2953@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>There is no option in FBackup to start a backup at computer shutdown. That feature is available only in Backup4all, our commercial edition.</p> <p>In FBackup you can set the computer to shutdown after a backup execution.<br /> To do that, open Backup Properties->Advanced.<br /> In the "Run action after backup" section, select Shutdown.<br /> Press Save. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/is-there-a-backup-on-shutdown-option#post-2950 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:16:29 +0000 bruce 2950@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>I recently installed this (v4.6) on a friends computer. on Windows XP.<br /> We were looking for an option to do backup on Shutdown - so that when he clicks the Shutdown Windows button (Start menu) it would backup his data first.</p> <p>The Titan backup he was using used to do that (but it expired and GFI replacement looks a mess...).<br /> I thought that one of the older versions of FBackup I had seen used to have a Backup-on-Shutdown, but does not seem to be there in latest 4.6 version we tried.</p> <p>I searched here, but no posts recent, only an old one saying it is on the wish list.</p> <p>Will that be available soon?<br /> Or did I miss where that setup is located.</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/iphone#post-2847 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:50:00 +0000 Admin 2847@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>How does FBackup sees your iPhone drive?<br /> Can you see it in the Removable or External hard drives list? </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/iphone#post-2836 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:57:02 +0000 Trek 2836@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Is it posible to backup to my iphone?...i am using the wizard, it finds the folder already on my iphone. The problem I have is when I select the folder the OK button does not light up. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/files-and-folders-from-the-network-not-allowed#post-2586 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:31:50 +0000 Admin 2586@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>It seems you do have source files from network.</p> <p>Please open Backup Properties->Sources<br /> Remove the sources from T: drive as it is a mapped network drive.<br /> Press Save and run again the backup. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/files-and-folders-from-the-network-not-allowed#post-2553 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:12:24 +0000 Admin 2553@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>No other client reported such a problem before.<br /> Please send us to info[at]fbackup[dot]com :<br /> - the log file from View->Job Logs->Last backup log.<br /> - the .fkc file from View->Open Folder->Catalog Folder.<br /> Put the files into a zip archive. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/files-and-folders-from-the-network-not-allowed#post-2548 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:13:36 +0000 Patrick 2548@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>FBackup is a great product and I am just trying it out for a bit before buying Backup4all to let me use my network drive in both directions. I have been backing up my hard drive to a network drive for a couple of weeks now and it has been working great.</p> <p>A couple of days ago however, the backups started aborting with:</p> <p><em>[4/21/2011 10:16:52 PM] Error: Backup aborted. Reason:<br /> Adding files and folders from the network is not allowed.<br /> Backup aborted at 4/21/2011 10:16:53 PM with 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)</em></p> <p>I had not made any changes to my source list but, even so, I rechecked it carefully and there are no network drives listed in the source. I next unchecked all source files except a single one on my hard drive and was still aborted with the same error.</p> <p>Finally I created a new backup job specifying the same source set as before and that seems to be running fine, though I won't know for sure till tomorrow.</p> <p>To have my backup job suddenly start aborting leaves me a bit worried as to reliability.</p> <p>Any suggestions would be appreciated.</p> <p>Patrick </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/how-do-i#post-2460 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:32:17 +0000 Admin 2460@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>If you selected the Full backup type, all files will be backed up each time. If you use the Mirror backup type, only new and modified files will be backed up.</p> <p>If you want to create zip archives with only new and modified files each time you run the backup, you need to use the Incremental backup type.<br /> That feature is not available in FBackup but only in our commercial edition: <a href="http://www.backup4all.com">Backup4all</a> </p>