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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction ........................................................................................... 7
1.1 What is Seagate BlackArmor
®
Backup? ............................................................................... 7
1.2 Advantages ...................................................................................................................... 7
1.3 System requirements and supported media ......................................................................... 8
1.3.1 Minimum system requirements .................................................................................... 8
1.3.2 Supported storage media ............................................................................................. 9
1.3.3 Supported operating systems ....................................................................................... 9
1.3.4 Supported file systems ................................................................................................ 9
1.4 License policy ................................................................................................................... 9
1.5 Technical support ............................................................................................................ 10
Chapter 2. Seagate BlackArmor Backup installation and startup ......................... 12
2.1 Installing Seagate BlackArmor Backup ............................................................................... 12
2.1.1 Installing Seagate BlackArmor Backup ........................................................................ 12
2.2 Extracting Seagate BlackArmor Backup ............................................................................. 13
2.3 Running Seagate BlackArmor Backup ................................................................................ 13
2.4 Removing Seagate BlackArmor Backup ............................................................................. 13
Chapter 3. General information ............................................................................. 14
3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images ........................................... 14
3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups .......................................................................... 14
3.3 BlackArmor Backup Secure Zone ...................................................................................... 15
3.4 Viewing disk and partition information .............................................................................. 15
3.5 Try&Decide .................................................................................................................... 16
3.6 BlackArmor DriveCleanser, File Shredder, and System Clean-up .......................................... 16
3.7 Support for Zip format ..................................................................................................... 16
Chapter 4. Getting to know Seagate BlackArmor Backup .................................... 18
4.1 BlackArmor One-Click Protection ....................................................................................... 18
4.2 Program workspace ......................................................................................................... 20
Chapter 5. Creating backup archives .................................................................... 24
5.1 Selecting what data to back up ........................................................................................ 24
5.2 Performing backup .......................................................................................................... 25
5.2.1 Selecting data for backup .......................................................................................... 25
5.2.2 Selecting the target archive location ........................................................................... 27
5.2.3 Scheduling ............................................................................................................... 28
5.2.4 Backup method ........................................................................................................ 29
5.2.5 Source files exclusion ................................................................................................ 30
5.2.6 Selecting the backup options ..................................................................................... 31
5.2.7 Setting automatic consolidation .................................................................................. 32
5.2.8 Providing a comment ................................................................................................ 33
5.2.9 The operation summary and the backup process ......................................................... 33
5.3 Fine-tuning your backups ................................................................................................. 33
5.3.1 Archive protection ..................................................................................................... 33
5.3.2 Source files exclusion ................................................................................................ 34
5.3.3 Pre/post commands .................................................................................................. 34
5.3.4 Compression level ..................................................................................................... 34
5.3.5 Backup performance ................................................................................................. 35
5.3.6 Archive splitting ........................................................................................................ 36
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