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Intego Backup Assistant

Intego Backup Manager Pro

User's Manual

Summary of Contents for Intego Backup Assistant

Page 1: ...Intego Backup Assistant Intego Backup Manager Pro User s Manual...

Page 2: ...the Intego Backup Assistant and Intego Backup Manager Pro software described in it are copyrighted with all rights reserved This manual and the Intego Backup Assistant and Intego Backup Manager Pro s...

Page 3: ...Pro 17 Serializing Intego Backup Manager Pro 19 Using Intego Backup Manager Pro in Evaluation Mode 20 2 Quick Start 21 Your First Backup 22 3 Managing Scripts 24 Getting Started With Scripts 25 Sourc...

Page 4: ...hat Happened 69 Restoring Recovering Lost Files 71 Using the Intego Backup Manager Pro Widget 75 6 Preferences 77 Log Preferences 78 Schedule Preferences 80 About Intego Backup Manager Pro 82 7 Techni...

Page 5: ...Intego Backup Assistant and Intego Backup Manager Pro User s Manual Page 5 1 About Intego Backup Assistant and Intego Backup Manager Pro...

Page 6: ...ego Backup Manager Pro also offers a number of advanced functions that are not available in Intego Backup Assistant These functions are indicated in this manual by the following icon The remainder of...

Page 7: ...cBook or MacBook Pro and Intego Backup Manager Pro can create a bootable backup of your entire Mac OS X volume And of course both programs can restore files to your computer as easily as they back the...

Page 8: ...rce For example you might back up files from your MacBook onto an external hard disk that you keep at home then if the MacBook gets stolen you still have copies of your files on the external disk A fu...

Page 9: ...e Changing file A on your desktop Mac and file B on your laptop means that when synchronizing the two Macs file A will be copied to the laptop and file B to the desktop Mac The result is that the sour...

Page 10: ...for your job or business reports spreadsheets databases and more All these files are valuable and many are irreplaceable If you don t back up your files you may have the unpleasant surprise of looking...

Page 11: ...rive crashes or becomes damaged Other computer components experience problems indirectly affecting the contents of the hard drive A virus infects your computer irrecoverably destroying affected files...

Page 12: ...ou have an 80 GB hard drive in your MacBook and a 500 GB external hard drive available for backups your decision is easy back up everything since there s no reason to save a few megabytes when you hav...

Page 13: ...changed since the first backup When you use removable media such as CDs or DVDs Intego Backup Manager Pro will let your backups span multiple discs asking you to insert a new disc as each one fills u...

Page 14: ...n t need to access those old files frequently or at all therefore it would probably store them in a compressed format to save space at an offsite location On the other hand home users might want to ma...

Page 15: ...using scripts First they ensure that you back up the same files in the same way every time second scripts can trigger actions from other programs and Mac OS X third Intego Backup Manager Pro lets you...

Page 16: ...Script Options and chapter 6 Preferences cover advanced functions allowing you to customize your backups and synchronizations It s not required reading although advanced users and network administrat...

Page 17: ...S X Server 10 4 or higher A LaCie hard disk or network storage device for Intego Backup Assistant Installing Intego Backup Assistant or Intego Backup Manager Pro In most cases you will install your so...

Page 18: ...installer icon The installer will launch and you ll see the following screen Click Continue to proceed with installation The Intego end user license displays Click Continue then click Agree if you ac...

Page 19: ...ization window You must enter your name company if any and your serial number You can find your serial number on a sticker in your drive s box or on the sleeve of the software s CD If you upgrade from...

Page 20: ...splays You can use the software for 30 days At the end of this period you can either purchase a license for the program or uninstall it from your computer You can find out how much time is left in you...

Page 21: ...Intego Backup Assistant and Intego Backup Manager Pro User s Manual Page 21 2 Quick Start...

Page 22: ...og offering to create a script You can choose from three types of scripts a backup bootable backup and a synchronization script Intego Backup Assistant only allows you to create a backup or a synchron...

Page 23: ...s from the source folder to the destination folder or volume except for those you don t have permission to copy That s it You now have a spare copy of all files in the source ready in case any of the...

Page 24: ...Intego Backup Assistant and Intego Backup Manager Pro User s Manual Page 24 3 Managing Scripts...

Page 25: ...o with duplicate files and so forth The first time you launch the program it displays a dialog offering to create a script You can choose from three types of scripts a backup bootable backup and a syn...

Page 26: ...unched Intego Backup Manager Pro selected Backup then clicked Create You ll have a new script called untitled backup script If you do the same thing again you ll notice a second script underneath the...

Page 27: ...delete that second script The first way is to click it once and then click the button the second is to press the Control key while clicking the script s name until a menu appears then choosing Remove...

Page 28: ...set up synchronization and bootable backup scripts in exactly the same way as backup scripts although with different default icons to help you differentiate them with a glance Once you ve created a sc...

Page 29: ...duplicate the contents of several folders or even several network volumes to one destination Backup sources don t have to be on computers running Mac OS X in fact they don t have to run any operating...

Page 30: ...synchronization you define sources and destinations through the top section of Intego Backup Manager Pro s window There are five ways of indicating sources and destinations Dragging and dropping items...

Page 31: ...ce or Choose Destination Using command keys press Control Option Command S to select a source and Control Option Command D to select a destination as is shown in the above menu Using popup menus that...

Page 32: ...d destinations Intego Backup Manager Pro offers other options If you click on the Source or Destination areas you ll see a window where you can choose a source By default the Kind menu shows Local Fil...

Page 33: ...y its address ftp ftp example com or a network volume on a remote computer identified by its IP address In each of these cases you must enter a full address including any volume and or folder name You...

Page 34: ...teria for your search For example you could choose Content Modified from the first menu then After from the second menu and enter a date in the text field Or you could choose a specific type of file O...

Page 35: ...t iDisk storage space is limited so you might not be able to back up all your files without purchasing additional space from Apple If you select iDisk from the Kind menu Intego Backup Manager Pro moun...

Page 36: ...e than one optical drive select it from the Preferred drive menu If you want Intego Backup Manager Pro to verify the disc after running your backup script leave the Verify disc after backup option che...

Page 37: ...les to new discs For example if your backup spanned three DVDs you will need to insert the third of these discs into your Mac This is done so Intego Backup Manager Pro can read information regarding t...

Page 38: ...field If you wish your disk image to be compressed choose a form of compression and if you want to encrypt your backup choose from two levels of encryption When you run the script the first time Integ...

Page 39: ...among multiple devices Edit the current choice by clicking the pencil icon then selecting a new choice Remove the current choice by clicking the icon Add an additional source by choosing Add Source an...

Page 40: ...estination Shows all currently mounted volumes that are capable of containing Mac OS X plus the option ASR Disk Image which creates a single file that contains the full contents of the bootable backup...

Page 41: ...might want to share copies of your scripts with them so they can see what you did Intego Backup Manager Pro includes a very simple system that prevents accidental changes to your scripts Since the sc...

Page 42: ...ding the locations of sources and destinations If you move the script to a Mac that doesn t have the source or destination in the same location the script will open but not run At this point you know...

Page 43: ...Intego Backup Assistant and Intego Backup Manager Pro User s Manual Page 43 4 Script Options...

Page 44: ...AppleScript that in turn runs several other programs Exceptions Intego Backup Manager Pro has selectors that give you wide ranging control over which files are copied You can choose to back up or not...

Page 45: ...There are three ways to remove a set of options from the Options section of the window and therefore use the default options Click the small X in the upper right corner of that section of the Options...

Page 46: ...eriodically without your intervention or attention For example you might want a backup script to run automatically whenever you plug in an external hard drive or synchronize two folders one on your Ma...

Page 47: ...every 20 minutes or every three months You can set up complex schedules by clicking the button to add more lines to the Run script section For example here we ve set a script to run every week on Mon...

Page 48: ...o one or another person is logged on at the time it s set to run Run script when volume ____ is ready automatically starts the script when the specified volume is visible to your Mac for example whene...

Page 49: ...Pro makes its copies Because a virus checker is what Mac users most often want to run before backing up or synchronizing the first checkbox is dedicated to Intego VirusBarrier The second checkbox let...

Page 50: ...ween copying only files with cache in their names none of them or those files together with others The next section lets you specify the type of information that you want the filter to find The choice...

Page 51: ...tego Backup Manager Pro User s Manual Page 51 In the example below files will only be copied if they Are Microsoft Office files such as Word documents or Are in a certain folder named Documents to bac...

Page 52: ...script s options Backup Choose Script Options Backup Options Press Command 4 Click the Backup Options button at the bottom of Intego Backup Manager Pro s main window Bootable backup Choose Script Opt...

Page 53: ...fferent options Remove files deleted from source ensures that your backup doesn t contain copies of any files that you removed in the source location In this case your backup precisely reflects the cu...

Page 54: ...k for authentication before running script or ahead of time Do not ask for authentication To copy all files you must enter a user name and password belonging to someone with administrator level permis...

Page 55: ...backup If you simply want to keep a folder from being deleted you can add it as an exception Repair permissions on __________ examines the permissions on system files Intego Backup Manager Pro will at...

Page 56: ...es Intego Backup Assistant can run synchronization scripts of folders or volumes to a LaCie hard disk but not to another Mac A question arises when the same file has been changed on both the source an...

Page 57: ...ged on both sides since last sync also has selections to make Intego Backup Manager Pro act consistently whenever it runs into such synchronization conflicts Besides Ask its other four options are Cop...

Page 58: ...ript completes When you check this box you ll see a dialogue box asking you to select the program to be run to change it later click the Choose button The next option which is checked by default direc...

Page 59: ...Intego Backup Assistant and Intego Backup Manager Pro User s Manual Page 59 5 Backing Up Synchronizing and Restoring...

Page 60: ...ime arrives or you press the Play button the program does exactly what you directed every time However there is one notable exception if you re making a backup to removable media such as DVDs you may...

Page 61: ...you want to make a temporary exception With its Preview function Intego Backup Manager Pro answers all these questions Click your script in the script list then click the Preview button at the bottom...

Page 62: ...as DS_Store in the above example that don t appear in the Finder Want to see more information Clicking the gear icon in the window s bottom left corner lets you display two additional columns of info...

Page 63: ...ns into a double arrow cursor Here we re about to expand the Source column Here it is fully expanded so you can see each file s complete path Double clicking any portion of the file path reveals the f...

Page 64: ...Pro User s Manual Page 64 Once you ve confirmed that the backup or synchronization script will go as you like you can run it by pressing the Play button or go back to the main window by clicking the E...

Page 65: ...turn In any case you might see that Intego Backup Manager Pro is Preparing to copy your files while it analyzes them to determine whether they do in fact need to be copied If your script involves a sm...

Page 66: ...n copied how much in total is to be copied and an estimate of how much time the script will take to complete The center section shows an animation of two hard drives at work Clicking the Chart button...

Page 67: ...tton when they appear next to the text Current Action at the top Generally only large files can be skipped because small ones would already be copied by the time you click the button Finally you can s...

Page 68: ...Pro encountered any problems such as a file that couldn t be copied for some reason information about the issue will appear in this concluding message The icon next to the script s name will also chan...

Page 69: ...d over a page Choose Window Logs Press Command Option L Click the small alert icon if any next to the script s name See Other Notifications A window appears listing every script you ve run The first c...

Page 70: ...he Command key and click each entry you want to save You can also select all entries by clicking once in the window then either choosing Edit Select All or pressing Command A Click the Export button C...

Page 71: ...hen you copy them one by one from various locations in the Finder A faster and more thorough method is to use Intego Backup Manager Pro s Restore function which you access by first clicking the script...

Page 72: ...return to the full list of files click the X button in the search box To restore items from a previous backup simply click the desired item and either click the Restore to button in the window s lowe...

Page 73: ...h time you ran your backups see Optical Discs in the Sources and Destinations section above each disc or set of disc will contain all of your files However if you chose to copy only changed files you...

Page 74: ...ts if you need to recover files that were deleted on your source but exist still on your destination you should do so manually by copying them from the destination back to the source Bootable backup s...

Page 75: ...his widget shows all the scripts you have set up in Intego Backup Manager Pro and their last execution if you have run them previously as well as the next scheduled execution for scheduled scripts You...

Page 76: ...ts had errors If this occurs there will be a red dot to the right of the script name you ll need to open Intego Backup Manager Pro and check the script s logs to find out what the errors were Finally...

Page 77: ...Intego Backup Assistant and Intego Backup Manager Pro User s Manual Page 77 6 Preferences...

Page 78: ...ptions keeps track of the selection criteria you made in the Exception options when you set up the script See the Exceptions section in chapter 4 Script Options The second option Record successful del...

Page 79: ...the log to recipients of your choosing after a script completes To do so check the Send logs by e mail box then click the Configure button In the window that appears fill in details of the message s o...

Page 80: ...nd synchronizations is to open Intego Backup Manager Pro select a script then click the Play button or choose a script from the Intego menu A schedule that fails to run or that runs unexpectedly could...

Page 81: ...ied number of days has passed without a backup The second option Display scheduled scripts in ____ has two options Intego Backup Manager Pro and Task Manager If you check the first option Intego Backu...

Page 82: ...n such as the program s version number and your support number which you ll need for technical support Clicking the Support link launches your e mail program with a message addressed to Intego Technic...

Page 83: ...Intego Backup Assistant and Intego Backup Manager Pro User s Manual Page 83 7 Technical Support...

Page 84: ...or Intego Backup Manager Pro then choose Check for Updates If an update is available a dialog displays asking you if you want to go to the update web page where you can download the new version Upgra...

Page 85: ...Intego Backup Assistant and Intego Backup Manager Pro User s Manual Page 85 8 Glossary...

Page 86: ...stem problems you can copy the clone back to your startup disk and avoid having to reinstall Mac OS X Destination The device or location to which files will be copied In a typical backup that would be...

Page 87: ...or damaged Source The device that contains the files to be copied In a typical backup this would be your Mac s hard drive in a restoration it s the backup medium for example an external hard disk or...

Page 88: ...edistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyrigh...

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