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- Cobian Backup 8 APPLICATION AND SERVICE MODE
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- © Copyright 2000-2005 by Luis Cobian
- All rights reserved
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- Cobian Backup 8 is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and
- backup your files and directories from their original location to other
- directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network.
- FTP backup is also supported in both ways (upload and download).
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- Cobian Backup 8 exists in two different versions: application and service.
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- You can automatically backup your files once, daily, weekly, monthly, Yearly
- or on a timer basis.
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- You can also save and open lists with different backup file sets.
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- The program creates a log file which optionally can be mailed to you
- automatically.
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- Cobian Backup 8 can be used on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003,Vista or other NT based system.
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- Cobian Backup 8 has integrated compression capabilities, using the Zip64 or the SQX algorithms.
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- All the functions in the program can optionally be password protected and the
- backup files can be encrypted using one of the following methods:
- RSA (1024-bit), Blowfish (128-bit), Rijndael (128-bit) or DES (64-bit)
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- Backup to and from FTP servers is possible.
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- Install and uninstall
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- Important: running under NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista, you must have administrative
- privileges to install the program as a service.
- If you have an old **major** version of the program running NEVER INSTALL the
- new version into the old version's directory. Uninstall the old version first.
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- To properly install Cobian Backup 8, simply run the setup program.
- Choose a directory to install, for example C:\Cobian Backup 8 and select
- the installation mode:
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- As a service: You will be prompted if you want to
- run the service under the system account or other account. If you are
- accessing network resources, you cannot run the service under the
- LocalSystem account. Read more about this in the help file.
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- As an application, autostart for any user: this option installs the
- program as an application, and starts it automatically when any user
- logs on.
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- As an application, autostart the current user: option installs the
- program as an application, and starts it automatically when the current
- user logs on.
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- As an application, no autostart: The application must be manually
- started from the icon in the start- menu.
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- To uninstall the program, go to the Control panel- Add/delete program
- and select Cobian Backup 8.
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- Cobian Backup 8 is Freeware even for commercial use. You are allowed to copy,
- use and distribute the program, but only in the original package .
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