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30 MAGIX PC Backup MX Overview
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Note: You cannot undo password protection for a backup. In the same way, it
is not possible to change the password once the first backup has been
created. If you wish to continue to create automatic backups without password
protection, you will have to create a new automatic backup with a new name
and without a password. As described above, it will be started with a full
backup.
Data to be backed up: By default, all of the data on all drives is backed up.
 If you want to exclude all of the data stored on a specific drive, uncheck this
drive.
 If you want to exclude only certain data from the backup, click on the drive
where this data is stored to display all the folders. Navigate to the
corresponding folder and remove the check.
Note: You can adjust which drives or files/folders should be backed up at any
time, even if backups were created already. The changes will be applied to the
next backup: new files/folders are added to the backup and files/folders not be
backed up are excluded.
Schedule: By default your data will be backed up automatically every week.
You can adjust the schedule, if you wish. The following options are available:
daily, weekly, monthly.
Start: Enter on which day of the week and at what time you want the backup
to be executed. On these days, the PC has to be turned on and the hard drive
connected (if external), otherwise a backup cannot be executed.
Apply: Once you have made your desired changes, click on "Apply" to save
the changes.
Backup destination in NTFS format
For automatic backups, the drive for the backup destination has to be based
on the NTFS file system.
This is due to the maximum file size of the alternative file system FAT32 which
amounts to 4 GB. Backups, especially system backups, however, are larger
than 4GB. With a NTFS-based file system, backups can be processed in one
file, which speeds up the entire process.
If the storage destination you selected is not available in NTFS format, a dialog
will appear where you can launch conversion into this format. All data will