Starting and stopping EZBackup

1. Click the New Job toolbar button or select New from the Job menu.  EZBackup displays the New Job window.

   

2. Type a job name in the "Name" box.
3. Enter a folder name in the "Create backups in this folder" box or click Select to select a folder.  If the folder doesn't exist, EZBackup will create it when the job runs.
4. Click Add to add files and folders to the backup job.  From the popup menu, select Folder... to add a folder or Files... to add files.  You can also drag files and folders from Windows Explorer into the "Items to backup" list.  To modify an item in the list, select it and click Modify.  To delete items, select the items and click Delete.
5. Optional:
   Click the Backup Type tab to select a backup type.  By default, EZBackup will perform a full backup every 5 times this job runs.  At other times, an incremental backup will be performed.
6. Optional:
   Click the Filters tab to specify include and exclude filters.  When backing up a folder, EZBackup will use these filters to determine which files in the folder should be considered for backup.
7. Optional:
   Click the Options tab to specify various pre-backup and post-backup options.  You can also specify how EZBackup should handle backup errors.
8. Click OK to create the job.

Starting and stopping a backup job

To pause the job, click Pause.  The progress window now displays Resume and Stop buttons.  Click Resume to continue the job or Stop to stop the job.

1. Select the job in the EZBackup window and click Modify, or select Modify from the Job menu.  EZBackup displays the Modify Job window.
2. Modify the job's properties as desired.
3. Click OK to save your changes or click Cancel to discard them.

Deleting a backup job

1. Select the job in the EZBackup window and click Delete, or select Delete from the Job menu.  EZBackup displays a confirmation prompt.
2. Click Yes to delete the job or No to quit.

• EZBackup will not permit you to delete a running job.
• Deleting a backup job only deletes the entry from EZBackup's database.  Backups created by this job are not deleted.

Viewing a backup job's log file

The log file is a ASCII text file that can be read by any text editor or word processor.  Here's a sample of what an EZBackup log file contains:

*** Start: EZBackup log D:\BackupTarget\20000604_003905_F\20000604_003905_F.LOG ***
2000/06/04 00:39:05 S: Backup folder created D:\BackupTarget\20000604_003905_F
2000/06/04 00:39:05 I: Computing file list ...
2000/06/04 00:39:05 I: Detected 345 file(s)
2000/06/04 00:39:07 I: After applying exclusions, processing 297 file(s) ...
2000/06/04 00:39:07 S: Created folder D:\BackupTarget\20000604_003905_F\BackupSource\CodeBucket\Database
2000/06/04 00:39:07 S: D:\BackupSource\CodeBucket\Database\CodeBucketDB.dsp
2000/06/04 00:39:07 S: D:\BackupSource\CodeBucket\Database\CodeBucketDB.dsw
...
2000/06/04 00:39:17 I: Job completed successfully (297 file(s) processed, 297 file(s) backed up)
*** End: EZBackup log ***