Walk Through -
Creating & running your first backup using Enhanced Windows Backup

Step 1 - Create a new Job

Click the "Add" Button to create a new backup job.

This causes the Job Editor dialog to open.

Choose a brief name for the job and enter a more detailed description or notes in the description box.
In the Frequency box select how often you want the backup to automatically run.
Depending on the frequency you selected, you may need to select a Day and/or Time of day.

Leave the options box blank.

Then, optionally, you can decide if you want Enhanced Windows Backup to delete old backup files automatically to provide enough free disk space for new backups. For details of these settings please read the help file.

For example:-

When you have filled in the settings, press the Ok button. As its a new job, the Backup Selections Editor dialog will then appear.

Step 2 - Select the Files & Folders you want to backup

In this window, you will create a list of each folder and file that you want to backup with this job.

To add a whole folder and its sub-folders to the job, press the Add -> Folder button.

This opens the Folder Browser window. Choose the folder you want to backup.

To add a file to the job, press the Add - > File button.

This opens the File Browser dialog box. Choose the file.

If you wish to add a folder and most of its sub-folders and files then add the folder. Then exclude the sub-folders and file you wish to exclude by adding them to the list but then exclude them by pressing the Exclude button.

When you select a file or folder that is beneath a folder that is already in the list, Enhanced Windows Backup spots this and automatically shows the following dialog to assist you.

You can optionally tick the "Backup System State" box to backup system information from your computer such as registry, active directory etc. NB. On a typical system this can add 200MBytes to the backup job but is necessary if you expect to be able to perform a full restore of your system.

When the backup job runs, it processes files and folders in the order they are listed in the Backup Selections Editor. You can use the up and down arrow buttons to re-order the list if you wish.

The Edit Button is used to change one of the items in the list. Select the item using the mouse, then press the edit button. This re-opens the folder or file selection dialog box (depending on whether the item was a file or folder).

Here's an example of what a complete set of backup selections might look like :-

When you have finished making the list, press the Ok button. You can edit the list later if you wish to change it.

Step 3 - Select the Backup Destination

You now need to select where the backup will be stored when its run.

If you are using an external hard disk, then please ensure that it is connected and has appeared as a drive on your system. If you are using a network location, please make sure that you can access this location and that you have permissions to write files there.

Press the Browse Button.

This opens the folder browser dialog box allowing you to select a location for your backups. Please note that Enhanced Windows Backup will create new folders underneath this folder for each backup job automatically.

Select the drive and folder and press Ok.

You will see the location you have selected displayed in the "Backup Destination Folder" box.

Now you are ready to run the backups. In fact, as long as the backup engine is started (default), then the job will now run when the scheduled time arrives.

Step 4 - Run the job now (overide the scheduled time and date)

You can run this job now by right-clicking your mouse on the job and clicking "Run now".

Enhanced Windows Backup's backup engine now launches Windows Backup (NTBackup) to run the job.

You should see the following dialog as the backup runs.

Please note that the actual backup uses certain detailed options set from the menus of the NTBackup program itself. You can use NTBackup to change these settings if the backup behaves differently than expected.

You can see confirmation that the job has started and when it completed in the log window (the one at the bottom within the Backup Engine box).