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<h2 class="style1">Backups</h2>
<p>Cobian Backup keeps the history of all your
tasks backup on a database. You can see them on the Backup history
list on the user interface.
<p>You can always restore your files manually by
copying/unzipping the backup files into the original destination. If
the files are encrypted, use the Decrypting tool that is provided
with the program to decrypt the files first.<p>
If your backup is set to Create separated backups, every new
backup will create a new file or directory with the same name, but
with the date and time of the backup as a complement.
<p>For example: If the original file is My Documents.exe,
and the backup is set to "Create new backups with timestamps", every new backup will create: </p>
<p>My documents 2003-04-13 12;22.exe <br>
My documents 2003-04-14 12;22.exe <br>
My documents 2003-04-15 12;22.exe , etc </p>
<p>You can also add the type of the backup to the resulting names.
That way you will get:</p>
<p>My documents 2003-04-13 12;22 Full.exe<br>My documents 2003-04-13 12;22
Incremental.exe , etc</p>
<p>Now it's easy to maintain a limited number of
copies of every backup and delete the old ones. On the task
options you can set that you want, for example, maintain only 2
copies of the backup. </p>
<p>The older backups will be deleted then. You can
always PARK a backup to prevent it from being deleted. This
is specially important for incremental backups when the first backup
will usually be full and the next backup only partial.</p>
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