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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide
for Microsoft Windows users
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Feature / function M P O EULA N N N Password protection N N N backup complete folders N N Y choosing categories for BU / RSTR (like HD/Xformer) N N Y choosing locations / types & sizes / embedded Y Y N all filetypes selected by default N N Y multiple computers per DVD N N N multiple backups per DVD – adding / updating N N N undo restore N N N browsing / searching backed-up files N N Y Search entire computer - exclusions for Windows folders & Y ? Y removable media (true for Mus
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Introducing Clickfree DVD Backup Contents CONTENTS 3 INTRODUCING CLICKFREE DVD BACKUP 6 Main Features 6 Package contents 6 Definitions 7 BASICS 8 HOW DOES CLICKFREE WORK? 8 WHAT GETS BACKED UP? 8 Clickfree backs up content 8 What content categories does Clickfree back up? 8 WHAT DO I NEED BEFORE I START? 9 BACKING UP MY CONTENT 10 HOW DO I START USING MY CLICKFREE DVD BACKUP? 10 ZERO EFFORT BACKUP – REALLY! 11 WHAT IF CLICKFREE DOESN’T START UP A
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Introducing Clickfree DVD Backup RESTORING MY CONTENT 26 WHAT IF MY COMPUTER’S INTERNAL HARD DRIVE STOPS WORKING, OR I WOULD LIKE TO TRANSFER MY CONTENT TO A NEW COMPUTER? 26 WHAT DO I NEED BEFORE I CAN USE CLICKFREE TO RESTORE MY CONTENT? 26 HOW DO I GET MY CONTENT BACK? 26 What gets restored, and to where – Default restore? 26 HOW DO I LET CLICKFREE RESTORE DECIDE WHAT TO RESTORE AND WHERE? 27 HOW DO I CHANGE HOW CLICKFREE RESTORES CONTENT? 30 Restorin
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Introducing Clickfree DVD Backup HOW DO I CHOOSE INDIVIDUAL FILE EXTENSIONS FOR BACKUP? (OFFICE) 42 HOW DO I CHOOSE INDIVIDUAL FILE EXTENSIONS FOR BACKUP? (MUSIC, PHOTO) 43 WHAT IF I DON’T ENOUGH CLICKFREE BACKUP DVDS? 44 WHAT ARE ‘FACTORY SETTINGS’ AND HOW DO I USE THEM? 45 HOW DO I ADD/REMOVE/EDIT FILETYPES? (OFFICE ONLY) 45 HOW DO I CHOOSE ANOTHER DRIVE AND/OR FOLDER TO RESTORE TO? 47 LEGAL STUFF 49 Copyright © 2009 Storage Appliance Corporation. 5
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Introducing Clickfree DVD Backup Introducing Clickfree DVD Backup Thank you for buying the Clickfree DVD Backup – the easiest way to keep the valuable information on your computer safe. Clickfree is an easy-to-use computer backup system that automatically searches for and backs up content stored on your computer. No hardware configuration or software installation is required. The backup procedure begins once the Clickfree DVD has been inserted into your D
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Introducing Clickfree DVD Backup DEFINITIONS Just to make sure that the user guide is clear, we’re going to define a couple of terms that are used throughout the guide. Administrator “Administrator” is a special login name for the user who can make system-wide changes to the computer, has full control, and can access all of the files on the computer. Most home users are automatically the Administrator of their computer. If you don’t know if you are the A
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Basics Basics HOW DOES CLICKFREE WORK? All you need to do to keep your projects, photos, videos, music etc. safe is to put the Clickfree DVD Backup into the DVD drive in your computer and let it work! No need to install software or to configure anything. Your computer knows when the Clickfree DVD has been inserted, and it runs the program automatically each time. You can back up as many computers as you like with the Clickfree DVD Backup. However, each DVD
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Basics • {P} Photos – including common graphic formats such as JPEG and RAW • {P} Video – for example, AVI, MPEG, Shockwave Flash • {M} Music – including CD audio, MP3, MIDI • {O} Emails – including Thunderbird, Eudora, and those from Microsoft Office • {O} Text Documents – usually from word-processing programs such as Microsoft Word, Open Office, and WordPerfect • {O} Spreadsheets – for example, Microsoft Excel, Open Office, and Lotus 123 • {O} Present
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Backing up my content Backing up my content HOW DO I START USING MY CLICKFREE DVD BACKUP? Note: Screenshots in this section show mostly Office Backup screens – the screens for Music and Photo backup are almost identical. ♦ To start using your Clickfree DVD Backup: 1. Make sure that your computer is switched on and has finished starting up. 2. Log in, if that is what you normally do. 3. Insert a Clickfree DVD into your DVD drive. 4. Wait for the Clickfre
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Backing up my content ZERO EFFORT BACKUP – REALLY! Unless you stop the countdown by clicking a button, at the end of the countdown period Clickfree starts the backup. • If you want to let Clickfree decide what needs to be backed up from where, then you’re done: just relax and let Clickfree work. Without any effort on your part, Clickfree is safeguarding your valuable content! For details, see “What gets backed up?” on page 8. • If you want to make cha
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Backing up my content 5. If you have enough Clickfree Backup DVDs, click I’m Ready – Start Backup. Important: Before you backup your files, you must ensure that you have as many Clickfree Backup DVDs as are needed: if the backup requires more than one DVD, you need to use a Clickfree Backup DVD every time that the program tell you to change DVDs. If you don’t have enough Clickfree Backup DVDs for a backup, see “What if I don’t enough Clickfree Backup DVDs?”
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Backing up my content Administrator.” 1. Log out. 2. Eject the Clickfree DVD. 3. Log in again as Administrator. 4. Insert the Clickfree DVD again. The backup then starts automatically. • Your computer settings may prevent Clickfree from running automatically because “Autorun” is turned off. To fix this problem, follow these steps. You only need to do this once, not every time you use Clickfree. ♦ To turn on Autorun: [[are we going to give any instruct
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Backing up my content What do the Cancel, Next, and Back buttons do? As you go from one step to the next to back up content, the screens you see usually have buttons for Cancel, Next >, and Back>. Cancel abandons the changes you have made and returns you to the Manage Settings and PCs screen. Next > accepts the decisions you have made so far, then moves on to the next step and the next decision. Back > sends you back to the previous step so that you can c
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Backing up my content CHOOSING CATEGORIES OF CONTENT TO BE BACKED UP – REQUIRED 3. All of the categories are selected by default. Choose the categories of content to be backed up, for example, Text Documents, Presentations, and Financial. • To include a category, for example, Presentations, in the backup, make sure that the box to the left of the category name is checked . If it isn’t, click the box to check it. You can add and remove the checkmark by click
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Backing up my content again. Each folder with a + beside it can also be expanded. • You can now choose the individual folders you want to be searched by adding and removing checkmarks in the checkboxes. For example, to search only the folder with the Help and Manual projects, uncheck the My Documents checkbox, then check only My HelpAndManual Projects: • Do the same for My Computer. Note: You must choose a location – you cannot leave all locations un
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Backing up my content you already chose. • To add the entire My Documents folder to the backup, make sure that the checkbox is checked . • To see details of a folder under My Documents, click the + to the left of the checkbox. This expands My Documents to show the folders that it contains, and changes the + to a -. Click the – when you want to collapse the folder again. Each folder with a + beside it can also be expanded. • You can now choose the indiv
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Backing up my content It adds up the sizes of all of the content it finds, then adds the sizes of the files in the complete folders you also chose, and tells you how many files of what types it found, and how many DVDs are needed for the backup: ^TPHx_BU_CFSearches01 5. If you have enough Clickfree Backup DVDs, click I’m Ready – Start Backup. Important: Before you backup your files, you must ensure that you have as many Clickfree Backup DVDs as are need
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Backing up my content At the end of the backup, a Backup Summary screen is displayed: The Backup Summary screen shows you how many files in each category were backed up and the amount of space they take up on the DVD. When you see the Backup Summary screen, simply click Close, then OK, then eject the Clickfree DVD and store it in a safe place. Note: Before backing up any content, Clickfree tells you how many DVDs will be needed. Each time it fills up a
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Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Backing up my content ♦ To review or change what gets backed up: 1. Follow steps 1 to 4 of the procedure “How do I start using my Clickfree DVD Backup?” on page 10 2. Before the countdown reaches zero, click Options. You can now choose the locations to search for content, what types and sizes of files get backed up, and whether files embedded in compressed files and email messages should be included. CHOOSING LOCATIONS TO SEARCH FOR CONTENT – OPTIONAL
