Knowledge base
How to create a new task using Windows Task Scheduler
This tutorial shows you how you can create a new scheduled task by using the Windows Task Scheduler. Creating a new task is a good way to test if your Windows user account has enough permissions.
Types of backup
Backing-up is a crucial process that everyone should do in order to have a fail-safe, for when the inevitable happens. The principle is to make copies of particular data in order to use those copies for restoring the information if a failure occurs (a data loss event due to deletion, corruption, theft, viruses, etc.)
What are Backup operators?
A backup operator is an user that can back up and restore the computer regardless of file system security. A member of the Backup Operators group can extract files and directories for which the user would normally not have access.
What is keyboard authentication?
This article describes what is keyboard authentication and how it can be used. Keyboard authentication is the advanced form of password authentication, aimed specifically at the human operator as a client.
What is a Mirror Backup?
Mirror backup is identical to a full backup, with the exception that the files can be compressed/encrypted only individually. Mirror backups keep only the latest file versions in the destination (no versioning). A mirror backup is most frequently used to create an exact copy of your data in the destination.
How to restore a backup from Google Drive
Backup4all supports Google Drive both as source and destination. This article explains how to restore a backup from Google Drive.
USB backup
You can backup your data to a USB drive or from a USB drive using Backup4all. This is a practical backup destination as it allows you to store important files to external devices, offering increased portability. It can be considered as an additional protection against data loss as the result of hardware failure or other disasters.
What is an Incremental Backup?
Incremental backup stores all files changed since the last FULL, DIFFERENTIAL OR INCREMENTAL backup. The advantage of an incremental backup is that it takes the least time to finish. The disadvantage is that during a restore operation, each increment is processed and this could result in a lengthy restore job.
What is a Full Backup?
The full backup type copies all selected files and folders. Full backup is time consuming (when compared to incremental and differential backup types), but it allows the fastest and easiest restore. It is the starting point of all other backup types.
How to backup Yahoo! emails
This article explains how to backup the emails stored online in your Yahoo! account, even if you are not an Yahoo Mail Plus subscriber (that gives offline access with POP for your emails).
Backup Outlook emails and settings
This article provides information on how to back-up Microsoft Outlook automatically or manually. If you are actively using Outlook and rely on it for most of your communications, schedules and contact management, then you realize how important it is to have all that data stored safely.
How to back up Outlook.com (former Hotmail) emails?
This article explains how to back up Outlook.com (former Hotmail) emails with Backup4all. You can back up your Outlook.com emails by using Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mail or Thunderbird with the corresponding Backup4all plugin.
FTP backup
FTP backup is supported by Backup4all. You can backup your data to a remote computer or device using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) connection. This is a practical remote backup destination as it allows you to store important files offsite. It can be considered as an additional protection against data loss as the result of hardware failure or other disasters.
How to activate Backup4all online
After purchasing a license for Backup4all you have to activate it. Activation allows verifying that your copy of is genuine and that it hasn't been used on more computers than the number of licenses purchased. It prevents this way software counterfeiting (intentional or unintentional).
How to backup your Facebook account
This article will show you how to back up your Facebook account using Backup4all. The backup will include: your profile information (contact information, interests, groups), wall posts and content that you and your friends have posted to your profile, photos and videos that you have uploaded to your account, your friends list, notes you have created, events to which you have responded, your sent and received messages, any comments that you and your friends have made on your wall posts, photos, and other profile content.
How to install and use backup plugins
This article will show you how to download, install and use backup plugins in Backup4all. There are currently over 100 free backup plugins that you can load in Backup4all and easily back-up specific apps and data sets. You can also create your own backup plugins using the Plugin Creator.
Differential backup
The differential backup contains all files that have changed since the last FULL backup. The advantage of a differential backup is that it shortens restore time compared to a full backup or an incremental backup. However, if you perform the differential backup too many times, the size of the differential backup might grow to be larger than the baseline full backup.
How to backup your Twitter account
This is a step-by-step guide that shows how to back-up your Twitter account data. The backup will include: Followers, Friends, Favorites, Your Tweets, Direct Messages. You first need to download the Twitter followers, friends, favorites, tweets and direct messages to your computer.
Network backup
Backup4all’s licensing system provides a network backup solution for large computer environments with a special focus on the network environment. Backup4all is designed to be reliable, easy-to-use and affordable. It can be used as a reliable network backup solution in networks with hundreds of computers connected.
How to configure and use One Touch Backup?
Some USB enclosures have a button to start the execution of an associated program. If you have such a device, you can configure Backup4all to execute a backup job or a backup tag when this button is pressed. If your One Touch Backup device is not detected by Backup4all, you could use the command line parameters to create a command that can be associated to the One Touch button of your device.
How to backup your data to Minio
Minio is a storage server software that uses Amazon S3 compatible API. The application is an open source project. Minio handles object storage mediums and works both on private servers and on comercial services like Azure, Docker, or Google Cloud Platform.
How to configure and use Office365 SMTP server
This article explains how to configure the SMTP server settings for Office365 in order to send notifications emails from Backup4all.
What is block level backup
Block-level backup will analyze the source files and will back up only the modified parts of the files. Block-level backups bypass the file system and read data directly form the Disk or Volume.
How to back up data without using zip compression
This article explains how to back up data keeping the original file format (without using compression). The Mirror backup type is the only one that does not use zip compression. The resulted backup will be an exact copy (mirror) of the source files, without altering their initial file format.
Backup to Blu-ray
This article explains how to back up to Blu-ray using Backup4all and the advantages it offers.