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Thank you for joining us today. I’m Rudy Stebih and this is HelpDeskTV for Windows
7. Today in Part 2 of our series on backing up your computer, we are going to show you
how to implement an automated backup solution of your personal data files to a local storage
device.
In Part 1 of our backing up your computer series, we went through the steps on how to
install the CrashPlan software. And we showed you how to select additional files or folders
to backup or remove from the backup set.
Today, we are going to implement a backup solution to a local storage device. This is
a free solution from CrashPlan. Even after your free 30-day cloud based storage solution
expires, and you choose not to continue with a CrashPlan cloud based solution, you will
always be able to continue the use of CrashPlan’s free backup solution indefinitely.
So, now your on the main CrashPlan backup menu. Now what? We are going to run through
the steps on setting up your first backup solution. But first, let’s run through some
of the menu options.
Here is where you will setup your set-and-forget backups, restore your backups, make changes
to your personal settings & view your history log. You can also setup to backup your friends
or family’s computers over the internet to your storage devices as well as setting
up to backup your files to multiple destinations for a truly secure & reliable backup solution.
Now, let’s get started. First, on the backup tab, on the ‘Destinations’ panel, you
will note there are currently 4 destinations you can choose from. You can backup to the
cloud on your free day trial plan to CrashPlan Central, you can backup to your friends computer
over the internet if he or she has setup CrashPlan on their computer system, you can backup your
personal data files to another computer, or you can backup your data to a local folder
or storage device. You can see that backing up to your friend’s computer, another computer,
or folder are free options. CrashPlan Central is a free 30-day option that you will need
to subscribe to after the 30-days have expired.
Let’s start by first setting up CrashPlan to backup to a local storage device. For the
purposes of this demo, I have attached an 80gig USB drive to the computer. Let’s now
select a folder on the USB drive that will backed up to.
First, click on the ‘Folder’ link in the destination panel. Here you can see the available
folders you have selected to backup too. As this is our first time, there will be no folders
available for use. Now just follow the steps as displayed on the screen to add a backup
folder. Step 1, click the ‘Select’ button. My USB drive happens to be drive g: in this
case, so we will go ahead and expand drive g:, and then select the ‘backup_CrashPlan’
folder. And then finally, we will click the OK button.
After a moment, the backup_CrashPlan folder has been added to your Available folders list,
and some diagnostic information is now displayed to the right of the Available folders list.
This can be ignored for the time being.
When your ready, in step 3, click the Start Backup button. A backup status is now displayed
showing you the progress of the backup. You can click on the information icon to get more
information. Displayed now is the remaining files to backup, how many files have completed
backing up, and which file is currently being backed up. The amount of time to complete
the backup is also displayed for you.
Back in the Backup menu, the identical information is displayed for you as well. Just click on
the information icon to expand the status info.
And there you have it. You now have a free, automated backup solution to your local storage
device that will continue to backup in real time for you uninterrupted, and without further
intervention on your part.
I hope you enjoyed todays HelpDesk TV. If you need further assistance in setting up
CrashPlan as your backup solution, you can contact us on our support forum here at ‘http://forums.helpdesktv.ca’.
Thanks for watching!