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Thank you for joining us today. I’m Rudy Stebih and this is HelpDeskTV for Windows
7. Today in Part 5 of our series on backing up your computer, we are going to take a look
at some General & Network settings that you should be aware of initially.
So now that we’ve got you setup to backup your computer both locally and in the cloud,
we are going to take a look at some basic settings to help manage your backups better.
From the main CrashPlan menu, select the Settings menu. And under the General tab, you will
see the Backup Status and Alerts panel. Here is where you set how often you will be notified
of backup stats.
First, by clicking the ‘Delivery time’ drop down, you can select when you can be
contacted.
Then the Email Configure button allows you set how often to send backup status reports
and shows you as well where they will be emailed to. You can send a sample report just by clicking
on the Send Sample buttons. Don’t forget to click the OK button if you made any changes.
Most of the other settings under the General tab can be left in their default setting for
the most part at this time.
Under the Backup tab, click Frequency and Versions. There you will see a setting called
‘Remove deleted files’. As the default setting, if you delete files on your computer,
they will obviously no longer be backed up. This setting allows you to adjust when the
file will be deleted from the backup. The default setting is to never delete the file
from the backup set. Here you can adjust how long you want to keep the deleted file backed
up in your backup set.
You can also set when the backups will run, exclude filenames from the backups, and set
compression & encryption features to customize your backups to your desired taste.
If you have only one backup set, then there is nothing left to do here. But if you have
multiple backup sets, you will need to set your backup settings for each backup set.
Select which backup set you wish to modify in the backup set list at the top, and then
make your changes accordingly as we did before. These changes will only affect the selected
backup set.
Another setting I’d like to point out at this time is under the Network tab. Here you
can throttle your upload speeds so as to not saturate your upload bandwidth. As you can
see the default setting is set to 300 kilo bits per second when away from the computer
and 200 kilo bits per second when at the computer. Make sure to adjust these settings based on
your bandwidth connection so as to not flood your internet connection with your backup
and slow down your browsing times.
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!