You may save the default options so they will be the same every time you run The Vault. To do this, select `Save Defaults' under the `Options' menu. All of choices that you made in all of the dialog boxes and menus will be saved in a file you select, ending in .VDF. The file called VAULT.VDF in the directory from which you ran The Vaultis read is used to set the defaults when you run The Vault.
Setting the default options often consists of ``pretending'' you are doing a backup, and then at the last minute saving the options. To make this easier, a `Save Defaults' button is part of the dialog box asking you to insert a disk, letting you save the defaults without quitting your backup run.
You may have two or three backup sets for one hard disk; one for each partition would be common. Each backup run may need different defaults; for example, you may not want .PRG files backed up on your programming partition because they use up backup disk space and can be rebuilt easily, but on your system partition, containing all your commercial software, you most certainly would want to back these up. You can load whichever default file is appropriate for your current backup with the `Load Defaults' option, found just under `Save Defaults'.