User manual
Table Of Contents
- Nero BackItUp Manual
- 1 Start Successfully
- 2 Launching the Program
- 3 User Interface
- 4 Back up Files
- 5 Backing up Files Again - Updating a File Backup
- 6 Backing up Drives
- 7 Specifying the Backup Target for File and Drive Backup and Starting the Backup
- 8 Scheduling Backups - Nero BackItUp Jobs
- 9 Verifying Backups
- 10 Restoring Files and Drives
- 11 Backup and Restore Tools
- 12 Nero BackItUp ImageTool
- 13 Other Operations
- 14 Options Window
- 15 Technical Information
- 16 Index
- 17 Appendix: Nero BackItUp File Extensions
- 18 Contact
Options Window
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Advanced options area
File Backup Format
drop-down menu
Offers options for the format in which the file backup is
saved. The following entries are available:
Save each file individually: Saves each file in the backup
archive individually. Select this option if it is important for
you to have access to the content of the backup from any
computer and system. Please note that if you want to
compress the content of the backup, each file is
compressed with this backup type.
Save multiple files in one archive: Creates a backup in
Nero BackItUp format with the file extension *.nba.
Structure information about the file is saved in the backup
file. Select this option if full backup functionality and minimal
memory are important to you.
Save multiple files with NTFS streams in one archive:
Creates a backup in MTF format (Microsoft Tape File).
Backup content includes any existing data streams (NTFS
streams from NTFS version 5.0) in addition to individual
files. Select this option if a backup of NTFS streams is
important to you.
Add/Remove
button
Opens the Select File Filters window where you can add
profiles to or remove profiles from the filter (see
Selecting
and combining filters
).
File Filter
selection list
Shows the filters of the profile you have selected in the
Default Profile drop-down menu.
Use 8.3 file names for
backup
check box
Saves the backup in a DOS-compatible format.
Do not back up empty
folders
check box
Excludes empty folders from the backup.
Add new files in
incremental or
differential backup
check box
Adds new files to the backup when you select the backup
types Incremental backup or Differential backup.
14.3 Job tab
The following check boxes are available on the Job tab for executing jobs:
Display Nero
BackItUp Scheduler
icon in system tray
Displays an icon for the Nero BackItUp Scheduler in the
operating system's system tray.
Display a warning
before writing to a
disc
Before executing the job, the system will display a dialog
box with an appropriate message and will only burn the disc
after the message is confirmed.
Always use updated
settings from
preferences
Uses the latest settings that you specified in the Options
when executing a job.
If this check box is disabled, the settings are used that were
enabled when the job was created.










