Project properties

Select a project in the project viewer on the main window, then click on the menu "Project" - "Project properties...", or just double click on the selected project, you can view and modify the project properties

• General
  
  
   
  • Category - You can move the project from one category to another by changing this option
     
  • Project name - Modify the name of the project
     
  • Safe backup - This option is designed for the "Incremental Backup" type tasks of this project. When backing up new data to the new timing catalog of an existing backup archive, ArkBackup opens the archive and write data into it. If a thunderbolt happens during backing up, e.g. power lossing, etc., the archive file will be corrupt. If "Safe backup" is checked, ArkBackup will make a copy of the backup archive before open and write it so that the archive file can be safe. If the backup finishs successfully, the "copy" of the archive file will be removed. So if this option is checked, you may need more disk spaces and take more time for storing the copy of the archive file. In general, if you also make a copy for the backup archive by yourself, e.g. burn it into CD/DVD discs, this option is unnecessary to be checked.
     
  • Don't pop up notification after backup - If you don't want a notification window pops up when project runs completed, then check it.
     
• Actions
  
  
  
  In "Actions" page, you can specify some programs to run before/after a project running, and/or copy/move/delete files, burn disc, FTP upload, etc.. This may be helpful if you need to do some additional operations before/after backup.

Add tasks for project

To add a new task for a project, select a project in the project viewer on the main window, then click on the menu "Project" - "Add task with wizard...". Then the New Task Wizard will be called out to guide you to create a new task. The course is almost same as the steps 2-5 of creating a new project.

You also can create new tasks directly without the wizard. The menu "Project" - "Add task - local files/folders backup..." and "Project" - "Add task - Windows registry keys backup..." can help to do this.

Delete a project

To delete a project, select the project which you want to delete, in the project viewer on the main window. Then click on the menu "File" - "Delete project". Please note, deleting a project also causes all tasks belong to this project are deleted and can't be recovered.

Export/Import projects

You can export all projects(with their tasks) to an .XML file so that you can import them in the future.

To export projects, click on the menu "Tools" - "Export projects...", then specify the target .XML filename.
To import projects from an .XML file, click on the menu "Tools" - "Import projects...".