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Specifying the Backup Target for File and Drive Backup and Starting the Backup
7 Specifying the Backup Target for File and Drive Backup
and Starting the Backup
After you have selected files and folders or a drive to back up (see Selecting files or Backing
up Drives
), you can specify the target of the backup and start the backup. This is done in the
Backup Settings and Completing the Backup Wizard screens (see
Backup Settings
screen
and Completing the Backup Wizard screen).
7.1 Burning a backup to a disc or saving it to a hard drive
With Nero BackItUp, you can burn the backup to a disc or save it to a hard drive, network
drives or removable media.
Nero BackItUp supports the disc types CD, DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-ray disc. The type of disc
you can burn depends on the type of burner used.
To start the backup and burn to a disc or save to a hard drive, proceed as follows:
1. If you want to burn the backup to a disc:
1. Select a burner in the Target drop-down menu.
2. Insert a disc into the burner.
2. If you want to save the backup to a hard drive:
1. In the Target drop-down menu select a hard drive, a network drive, or a removable drive.
2. In the Target Path input field, specify the path of the folder to which the backup is to be
saved.
3. Make additional settings as necessary (see Backup Settings screen).
4.
Æ The screen appears.
6. ify additional settings in the extended area (see Completing the Backup
Click the Next button.
Completing the Backup Wizard
5. Check the settings in the Completing the Backup Wizard screen.
If necessary spec
Wizard screen).
7.
Æ
ars with the message "Nero BackItUp cannot disable the selected partition/hard
Click the Backup button.
The Backup Process screen is displayed and the backup started. You can track the
backup process with the progress bar.
If burning a disc, Nero BackItUp automatically starts a multisession disc or continues
with this one (i.e. you can save additional backups to this disc as long as there is enough
space.)
When backing up an active hard drive (i.e. a hard drive that other programs can access
or on which the current operating system is running), it cannot be disabled and a dialog
box appe
drive...".
d
e, but only a message to let you know that the partition is
anges made to files during
The dialog box with the message "Nero BackItUp cannot disable the selected partition/har
drive... " is not an error messag
still being used by Windows
®
.
For the backup this means that system files can change during the backup process. In
other words, at the end of the backup process there may be errors when verifying the data.
In this case a dialog box will be displayed with the message that some data has been
changed in the interval between backup and verification. The ch
the backup are usually irrelevant for restoration of the system.
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