Setting up your backuplist preferences

There are several options that affect your use of backuplist. These can be found in the various menus in the menu bar at the top of your screen or in the 'Settings' drawer. The settings for backup folder, compression, Disk Image, copy method, and for scheduling, will be saved as a set along with your list of files, when you create a new set (Sets menu > Create new set). Other settings for password, and startup items, are "Global" and affect all backup sessions.

Backup preferences

  1. Folder preferences. See more on this....
  2. Sheduling preferences. See more on this....
  3. Copy method. There are six options... see more on this

Global preferences

  1. Password. Check box and enter your user password. This is useful for many reasons. It will overide permissions problems and allow a faster exit if you quit a backup session.
  2. Makle Backuplist a startup item. This is necessary for sheduling backups!
  3. Make Backuplist hidden. When Backuplist launches it will stay hidden (icon greyed out in the dock) until you click on its icon. If a sheduled backup happens, Backuplist will appear briefly for the session and then become hidden again.
  4. Recreate full folder paths. This will create folders on the backup that re-create the folder paths on your hard drive. For example if you are copying your Mail folder it will be copied into a sequence of folders that mimic its position on your Hard drive, > Mail > Preferences > Library > Home folder .
  5. Auto select all. Since you must select the items in the list prior to backing up, this feature automatically selects all item in the list for you.
  6. Automatically check for updates. Check this if you want backuplist to check for updates online each time it starts up.
  7. Generate log report text files. This will create two files in your backuplist folder. Backuplog.txt shows a log of the backup sequence. Backupreorts.txt shows the progress of rsync, psync, ditto copy methods. This file can be very large (5MB file for a 10GB backup) as it shows every file that is copied and the progress of the backup. These files are useful for troubleshooting purposes


See also

Choose a backup destination
Choose a backup folder

Using Auto Select

Setting the copy method