Volume 1, Issue 6
June 2005

30 Years of Excellence

SecureTrek: What to Backup?

The first time you use SecureTrek to backup your computer you need to plan which directories and files you should backup. You want to choose files that are critical to you and may change over time. Files such as pictures and music are best archived locally on writable CDs.

Critical files include database and related files used by programs such as physician office management. Or, they may be word processing documents and related indexes such as used in legal practices. Also, many users create a variety of different types of files that they feel are critical. It is up to you to determine what is critical and what is not.

SecureTrek maintains a 10-day rolling backup of your files. This means that you can restore versions of files up to 10-days prior.

under My Documents? First, check My Documents. This will check all the sub-directories. Then uncheck the sub-directories you do not want backed up such as My Pictures.Another way of selectively choosing sub-directories and files is to use the Filtering feature. Click on Filters on the client’s tool-bar and follow the intuitive steps.

One more step is to set-up the schedule. Click on Schedules and the “Backup Set Schedules” tab. Click on “Add” and a wizard will walk you through the steps.
We also recommend that you enable email. SecureTrek will email you after each backup information. Choose the (text) menu View/Options/Backup and then the “Mail” tab. Fill in the form and you are done.

Now to backup, click on the “Backup Now” button. Your first backup will take quite a while, but all subsequent backups will be down-right speedy!