GetBack allows you to set certain advanced options for backup. The default operation for these options will meet the needs of most users. For certain users, changing the defaults on these options will allow additional flexibility in backup. These options include:
Allow you to not keep the log files on the hard drive. GetBack defaults to keeping the last five log files on the hard drive.
Allow you to not automatically format the target drive if it is not formatted. GetBack defaults to automatically format the target drive if required.
Allow you to not automatically delete the files on the target drive. GetBack defaults to automatically delete all files on the target drive.
Allow you to not back up Hidden and System files. GetBack defaults to back up all files.
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Archive Help
Whenever a file is created or modified, a bit is set in the file to indicate that this file should be archived. This bit is called the archive bit. The archive bit is used by backup utilities (and XCOPY) to indicate that a file has been created or modified since the last backup. Generally you want the archive bit cleared when the file has been backed up. Generally, all FULL and INCREMENTAL backups will clear the archive bit of each file that is backed up.
For example, let's imagine you just backed up your entire disk. All files will have their archive bit cleared indicating that they do not need to be backed up again. After one day of creating and modifying files, you run an INCREMENTAL backup. This backup will only backup those files that have the archive bit set. It will generally clear the archive bit of those files. But, if you wanted to run two identical INCREMENTAL backups you could not do it if the archive bit gets cleared. If you wish to run two identical INCREMENTAL backups, you must run the first with this option set to ARCHIVE BIT UNCHANGED. The second will be run with the ARCHIVE BIT CLEARED.
You may also want to not clear the archive bit after any INCREMENTAL backup. In this case, each INCREMENTAL backup would include all files that have changed since the last full backup. This would (in effect) be a DIFFERENTIAL backup.
The archive bit will always be UNCHANGED during differential backups.
This option has no effect during Restore.
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Backup Help!
Selecting this option will start the backup. Make sure that all the following options are correct before proceeding.
The Type of Backup - Full, Incremental, or Differential
To Compress or not to compress (should be ON)
To Verify or not to verify (should be ON)
The Include/Exclude specification
The Overwrite Warning (should be ON for safety)
The archive status (should be CLEARED unless you
are doing a special backup or a Differential backup)
The Drive letter
The Media type
If this is the first time you have run a backup with your current configuration, you may wish to preview the backup first to make sure that everything is correct.
Select this option to begin backup.
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Border Color Help
This option chooses the color of the border around the main window, the three status windows, and in text mode the borders around menus and text strings.
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Button Color Help
Buttons are those items like HELP and GENERAL HELP buttons that appear at the top left of your screen and the EXIT button that appears in the main menu. This options sets the color for the non-current (or non-selected) buttons. The color for current (or selected) buttons is set to the same color as the current Menu Item.
This selection also sets the color of the Scroll Bar.
The hot key color associated with a button is determined by the color of the Menu hot key.
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Color Helph
GetBack allows you to specify the color of various items on your screen. It is possible to set the foreground and background colors of the following:
Borders around windows
Windows
Window objects
Titles
Menu items (both selected and non selected)
Buttons (like the HELP, GENERAL HELP)
Hot Keys
Prompts
Foreground color is defined as the color of the characters or lines. Background color is defined as the color of the paper the characters are written on.
It is also possible to reset the colors to their original settings. These settings are stored in a file called BBCOLOR.DAT and is located in the same directory that the GETBACK.EXE is kept. If you wish to save different color configurations, this file can be renamed to reflect any number of color configurations.
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Compress Option Help
With the Compress option on, GetBack will compress your files on the backup media while backing up your files. This causes them to take less space on your backup media than they took on your hard disk. Normally, GetBack will also run faster with compression turned on. Compression takes processing time to compress your data. But since disk I/O is generally the slowest part of any computer program, compression generally saves more time than it takes. However, with a very slow PC and/or a very fast disk or tape, GetBack may run faster with compression turned off.
You also may choose to turn compression off if you are only backing up files that are already compressed (.ZIP or .ARC) files.
This option has no effect during Restore.
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Deletion of Files on the Target Help
GetBack always deletes all files on a floppy unless this option is selected. There are situations (networks in particular) where you would want to have multiple backup sets on one floppy.
Select this option if you do not want to delete files on the target drive when a backup is performed.
This option is only available for DOS media types.
This option has no effect during a restore.
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Directory List Help - NOT CURRENTLY USED
GetBack allows you to start your list of Include/Exclude files with a directory tree. For example, if you wanted to start with all directories of the C: drive you would enter:
C:\
GetBack will then display all the directories on your C drive.
If you want to start your list with the list of all directories under the \USER\ directory, you would enter:
C:\USER\
This starting point will allow you to easily specify the files you want to include/exclude.
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Directory Tree Select
This screen allows you to individually select entire directories or individual files from those directories for INCLUDE or EXCLUDE. A check indicates that the directory and/or file is INCLUDEd. You may use the mouse or the <ENTER> key to INCLUDE or EXCLUDE a directory or a file. When you INCLUDE or EXCLUDE one directory, all of the files and all of the subdirectories with all of the files within those subdirectories are INCLUDEd or EXCLUDEd. By default all directories and all files are INCLUDEd.
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