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backing up the program will use the Seagate BlackArmor NAS by default. Also you can select the required Seagate BlackArmor NAS manually by IP address

Having provided the new location and size, click Accept. You will be taken back to the Change disk layout window. You might have to perform some more

Chapter 14. Adding a new hard disk If you don't have enough space for your data, you can either replace the old disk with a new higher-capacity

Click the Accept button and you will be taken back to the Partition Creation screen. Check the resulting partition's settings and start creatin

After you click Proceed, Seagate BlackArmor Backup will start creating new partition(s), indicating the progress in a special window. You can stop t

Chapter 15. Security and Privacy Tools Seagate BlackArmor Backup includes tools for secure destruction of data on an entire hard disk drive, individ

2. On the next wizard's step select the desired data destruction method. By default the program will use the Fast method (see Appendix C. Hard

You can select at one time several partitions located on different hard disks or on several disks. Click Next to continue. If the disks and/or partit

In the Post-wiping Actions window you can select actions to be performed on the partitions selected for data destruction. BlackArmor DriveCleanser o

BlackArmor DriveCleanser offers you another useful capability — to estimate the results of executing a data destruction method on a hard disk or part

If you created and saved your algorithm for data destruction while working with BlackArmor DriveCleanser, you can use it later in the following way:

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You can view the search results and manually select the items you wish to remove. 15.5 System Clean-up Wizard settings If you want to change the de

Under the Windows operating system, a search string can represent a full or partial filename. A search string can contain any alphanumeric symbols,

After entering the "Computers" setting value, you can browse the search strings found by the System Clean-up Wizard in the registry. To do

15.5.6 "Network Places Filter" setting Here you can enter (separated by semicolons) any hostnames or IP addresses of network places, serv

Appendix A. Partitions and file systems A.1 Hard disk partitions The mechanism that allows you to install several operating systems on a single PC

number of sectors. FAT stores information about what clusters are free, what clusters are bad, and also defines in which clusters files are stored. T

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B.1.2 Motherboard sockets, IDE cable, power cable There are two slots on the motherboard to which the hard disks can be connected: primary IDE and s

• SP – slave (or no jumper required) • CS – cable select for master/slave: the purpose of the hard disk is determined by its physical position with

Chapter 2. Seagate BlackArmor Backup installation and startup 2.1 Installing Seagate BlackArmor Backup 2.1.1 Installing Seagate BlackArmor Backup

The menu can differ in appearance, sets of items and their names, depending on the BIOS manufacturer. The most widely known BIOS makers for PC mother

Heads (Hd) 64 Sectors (Sec) 63 Mode Auto CHS 1707 MB Maximum LBA Capacity 1707 MB In BIOS setup, you can set the Type parameter to User Type HDD (

disks installed in your computer labeled as C:, D:, E:, and F:, you can adjust the boot sequence so that an operating system is booted from, for exam

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Chapter 3. General information 3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images A backup archive is a file or a group of files (a

last full backup. Generally, a differential backup will be restored faster than an incremental one, as it does not have to process through a long cha

If you click the i (Display the properties of the selected item) button, you will see the selected partition or disk properties window. This window c

you can schedule backups, validate zip backup archives, restore files and folders from zip archives, make incremental and differential backups, and s

Chapter 4. Getting to know Seagate BlackArmor Backup 4.1 BlackArmor One-Click Protection BlackArmor One-Click Protection tool allows you to begin p

operation of the One-Click Protection tool might amount to 10GB plus 250 MB for temporary files. After applying this algorithm to your computer confi

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4.2 Program workspace Starting Seagate BlackArmor Backup takes you to the Welcome screen. This screen provides quick access to practically all the

the chosen item (if any) and the right part of the main window shows detailed information for the current subitem or a list of options available for

backup, and bootable rescue media. In addition, you will get information on the number of backup archives, as well as the date and time of the last b

Another useful screen shows logs of program operations and scheduled tasks. A calendar provides quick access to the logs (for past dates) or tasks (

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insurance against accidental deletion (or change) and file damage, file-level backups are an essential part of a good backup strategy. But file-level

Selecting a hard drive results in selecting all partitions on that drive. If a hard drive has more than one partition, you may want to select individ

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After selecting the archive location and naming the backup archive to be created, you have completed all the required steps for a backup task and th

For more information see Chapter 8. Scheduling tasks. 5.2.4 Backup method Select whether you want to create a full, incremental or differential b

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If you decide to keep old backups (by not selecting the Remove old archives box) and creation of a new full backup results in violation(s) of the lim

those files will not be excluded. You can also specify the path to a folder to be excluded, for example, C:\Program Files\Common Files\. Note that t

Or, you can edit the default backup options if you want to save the current settings for future tasks or from the main menu, Options. See 5.3 Fine-t

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compression, which may significantly increase the backup file size, while making the fastest backup. 5.3.5 Backup performance The three options belo

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there are bad sectors on the hard disk ensuring that you save as much information from the hard drive as possible. 2. Do not show messages and dialog

made due to expiration of free space in the selected location or due to disconnection of the selected storage device, the program will write an error

5.4 Making reserve copies of your backups When you choose the My Data backup type for backing up selected files and folders, you can create reserve

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Chapter 6. Restoring backup data 6.1 Restore under Windows or boot from CD? As mentioned above (see 2.3 Running Seagate BlackArmor Backup), Seagat

Please note that before restoring Microsoft Outlook mail messages, accounts, contacts, settings, etc. from My E-mail backup on a new computer with

5. Select files and folders to restore. You can choose to restore all data or browse the archive contents and select the desired folders or files.

Selecting the Overwrite existing files checkbox will give the archived files unconditional priority over the files on the hard disk, though, by defa

8. At the final step, the restoration summary is displayed. Up to this point, you can make changes in the created task by choosing the step you want

2. If you are going to restore data from an archive containing incremental backups, Seagate BlackArmor Backup will enable selecting one of the succes

6.3.4 Selecting a disk/partition to restore The selected archive file can contain images of several partitions or even disks. Select which disk/part

loader checks the disk signatures of all of the connected drives, and if it finds two identical disk signatures, the loader changes the signature of

6.3.7 Changing the restored partition size and location You can resize and relocate a partition by dragging it or its borders with a mouse on the ho

6.3.10 Restoration summary and executing restoration At the final step, the restoration summary is displayed. Up to this point, you can make changes

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6.4.3 Restoration priority The preset is Low. The priority of any process running in a system determines the amount of CPU usage and system resource

Chapter 7. Try&Decide The Try&Decide feature allows creating a secure, controlled temporary workspace on your computer without requiring you

You can leave the Try&Decide mode turned on as long as you like (may be days on end, however in such a case applying changes may take a long tim

The moment comes eventually when you decide to turn the mode off by clicking the Stop button. After clicking the button, the program will show a dia

Please be aware that the Try&Decide cannot track changes in disk partitions, so you will be unable to use the Try&Decide mode for virtual op

Here’s another example: You have accidentally deleted some files and then emptied the Recycle Bin. Then you have remembered that the deleted files co

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Chapter 8. Scheduling tasks Seagate BlackArmor Backup allows you to schedule periodic backup and validation tasks. Doing so will give you peace of m

To postpone a scheduled task until the next time the user is idle, select the Run when the user is idle box. The task will automatically start when y

• User logoff – the task will be executed each time the current user logs off of the OS. If you want to run a task only at the first occurrence of

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8.1.4 Setting up weekly execution If you choose weekly execution, set the Start time, specify the task execution periodicity in the Run the task e

• On every x day of the month – on the specified date 8.2 Managing scheduled tasks To manage the scheduled tasks, click Tasks and Log on the sideb

Chapter 9. Managing BlackArmor Backup Secure Zone The BlackArmor Backup Secure Zone is a special partition for storing archives on the same computer

4. In the next window, enter the BlackArmor Backup Secure Zone size or drag the slider to select any size between the minimum and maximum ones. The

Reducing a system partition to the minimum size might prevent your operating system from booting. 5. You can set a password to restrict access to th

2. Select to increase or decrease the zone size. You might need to increase it to provide more space for archives. The opposite situation may arise

3. Enter the new password and confirm it or select Do not use password protection. You can also select a secret question that will be asked in case

Chapter 10. Creating bootable media You can run Seagate BlackArmor Backup from an emergency boot disk on a bare-metal system or a crashed computer t

media, it may be best to contact Seagate Technical Support at http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support. You may opt for automatic start of the bootab

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Chapter 11. Other operations 11.1 Validating backup archives You can check the integrity of your backups to be certain that your archives are not d

4. Clicking Proceed in the summary window will launch the validation procedure if you leave the Run task now box selected. If you have decided to v

11.2 Operation results notification Sometimes a backup or restore procedure can last for 30 minutes or more. Seagate BlackArmor Backup can notify yo

If the outgoing SMTP server requires logging on to an incoming mail server before it allows sending outgoing messages, enter the necessary informati

Provide the name of the computer to which notifications will be sent. At the bottom of this window you can choose whether you want to get notificati

The color marks in the calendar show information about the days with scheduled tasks, tasks completed with errors, and successfully completed tasks.

To view the logs for a specific period, select the period by clicking the right arrow buttons in the From: and To: fields of the Show for the period

consolidation, the program uses the rules set for backup archives. After creating a backup, the program checks the backup archive for quota violation

3. The program displays a list of backups belonging to the selected archive with their creation date and time. The upper backup is the full backup; t

5. The program displays the summary window. Click Proceed to start consolidation. In our example, when consolidation is complete, disk G will contain

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If you click Delete, the program will remove the backup archive from its metadata information database as well as from the hard disk. 80

Chapter 12. Exploring archives and mounting images Seagate BlackArmor Backup offers two kinds of archive contents management: mounting for images an

2. By default the search is performed in all the sources where Seagate BlackArmor Backup can search information. You can select an information sourc

Please note that Seagate BlackArmor Backup does not search files in encrypted and password-protected tib archives. In addition, the program does not

up searches in the backup archives. After such indexing you will be able to search archives content by entering a file name into the Google Desktop o

3. Right-click on the Google Desktop icon in your system tray once more and select Indexing -> Re-Index. Click Yes in the confirmation window th

Clicking in the browser window on a line related to the desired file version opens a small dialog with just two options: View and Restore. 86

Choosing View starts the application associated with this file type and opens the file. Choosing Restore starts Seagate BlackArmor Backup and you c

2. Click Advanced, select the File Types tab and then make sure that the tib extension is selected and ".tib IFilter" is shown in the Fil

If you store backups on a network share, Windows Search can index them too. You just have to add the share to the Indexed Locations list by typing

1.3.2 Supported storage media • Seagate BlackArmor external drives • Seagate BlackArmor NAS • Other Seagate BlackArmor DAS drives • Maxtor DAS dr

Windows Search results 12.3 Mounting an image 1. Start the Mount Wizard by selecting Operations -> Mount Image in the main program menu or by ri

If you added a comment to the archive, it will be displayed in the Description column. If the archive was protected with a password, Seagate BlackAr

6. After the image is connected, the program will run Windows Explorer, showing its contents. Now you can work with files or folders as if they were

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Chapter 13. Transferring the system to a new disk 13.1 General information Sooner or later, most computer users find that their hard disk is too sm

13.2 Security Please note the following: if the power goes out or you accidentally press RESET during the transfer, the procedure will be incomplete

You can determine the source and destination using the information provided in this window (disk number, capacity, label, partition, and file system

If any disk is unpartitioned, the program will automatically recognize it as the destination and bypass this step. 13.3.4 Partitioned destination d

If you elect to transfer information "as is," a new partition will be created for every old one with the same size and type, file system a

First, select a partition to resize and click Edit on the toolbar. This will open the Partition Settings window, where you can resize and relocate t