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Task details
Select a task in the task viewer on the main window, then click on the
menu "Task" - "Task properties...", or just double click on the selected task,
you can view and modify the task details
- Source
In the source page, you can modify the name of the task, and the source
data of the task. If the source data is changed, then the next backup
will apply the changes.
- Target
In the target page, you can modify the "backup method", "backup type",
"target backup archive" and compression option,
password protection of the task.Backup method - You can specify the
backup archive type: ArkBackup archive file (.abkf), ZIP package file or
just keep the original form of files (store). The ArkBackup archive file
(.abkf) is recommended since it can maximize the effect of ArkBackup
features.
If you select "Compress to a single ZIP package file", you can see an
option : Remove path info in ZIP archive. Make this option checked if
you don't want to keep the path info of the original files in ZIP
archive.
If you select "Copy to destination", you can see two options: Don't keep
folder structure, Overwrite the exsiting file in destination folder with
same name when copying. If the first option is checked, then all files
in source folder, no matter the files in which level (e.g. in the source
folder directly, or in the sub folder of the source folder), they will
all be copied to the target folder, no any folder structure will be
kept.
Backup type - The incremental backup backs up
the whole sources at the first time, and then only backs up the changed
files since last backup. This can decrease the amount of backup time
obviously. One source file can be backed up time after time if it was
modified before next backup. Then it will has multiple "versions" in the
backup archive. Each "version" of the file is backed up in different
timing catalog. This mean you can get any "version" of this source file
from the backup archive file if you want.
- Please note, for "Incremental backup"
tasks, the compression option and password protection option, are only
applied for the newly backup data in the archive. ArkBackup will not
change the backed up data in the existing archive.
E.g. You don't have sent the password protection for a task originally.
You runned this task and all backed up data in the backup archive are
not password protected. Then you modify the task details to add password
protection to this task. Then you run this task again. If some source
files are modified and they are newly backed up to the new timing
catalog in this archive, then the newly backed up files in the new
timing catalog are password protected. When restoring, you don't need to
enter a password for the first backed up files and will be asked to
enter the correct password for the later backed up files.
- For "Fully Backup" type tasks (At here, means "ZIP" or "Copy" method"),
you even can add a date stamp into the filename for the target backup
archive. E.g. maybe you want to backup your data to the archive whoes
name like "D:\My
Backup\MyData_2009-03-24.zip" to show the create date of
the archive. Obviously, The "Incremental Backup" type tasks can't and
needn't use this feature.
ArkBackup supports this. Just click the "..." button to show the "Save
As" dialogue box and you can see the "Add date stamp to filename" option
in the dialogue box as below. Make this option checked and you can
specify the date format. "yyyy" means 4-digit year number and "yy" means
2-digit year number, "mm" means the month number for Jan. to Sep. with a
leading zero(01-09) and "m" means the month number without a leading
zero(1-9). "dd" and "d" are similar to "mm" and "m" but just for day
number. And you can specify the date separator and the position of the
date stamp in whole filename. Click on "Refresh" button can update the
preview for your specified options.
Delete a task
To delete a task, select the task which you want to delete, in the task
viewer on the main window. Then click on the menu "File" - "Delete task".
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