■<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <title>Cobian Backup 9 help files - Menus</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="CobStyle.css"> <style type="text/css"> .style1 { text-align: center; } .style2 { color: #FF0000; } </style> </head> <body> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="600" id="table1"> <tr> <td> <h2 class="style1">Menus</h2> <h2>List menu</h2> New List - Creates a new empty list and makes it active. Open List - Opens an existing list and makes it active. Save list as - Saves the current list under other name. Import - Use this function to import Cobian Backup 9 lists from older versions. The elements of the old list will be added to the current list.Refresh list - Reload the current list.List style - Change the style of the task list.<h2>Task menu</h2> Run all tasks now - Backs up all the tasks in the list. You can check "Shut down the computer" on the confirmation dialog if you want your computer to shutdown when the backup operation is done (may need administrator's rights)Run  selected items - Same as above, but only the selected tasks on the list will be backed up.New task - Add a new task to the list. <a href="tasks_en.htm">Read more about tasks here</a>. Edit task - Opens the selected task for editing. In the resulting dialog you can modify every property of the <a href="tasks_en.htm">task</a>.Clone task - Creates a copy of the selected task and adds it to the list. This can be useful if you want to create a task with the same files or properties of an existing task.Delete task - Deletes the selected task from the list. If you check "Also delete the backup files" from the confirmation dialog, all the backup files from this task will be deleted. Warning, this is an irreversible operation. Abort - If a backup is currently going on, clicking on Abort will stop the current operation. Some temporary files could be left on your hard drive. Reset archive attributes: Cobian Backup 9 uses the archive bit of the file attributes to decide if a file must be copied or not when doing a differential or incremental backup. If you want that the next backup of a task will be full, just select the task and select this option. Shutdown computer: When a MANUAL backup is going on, you can select this option to undo a previous Shutdown command or to set the Shutdown flag.<h2>Backup history menu</h2> Delete backup - Deletes the selected backups from the active database.  If you check "Also delete the backup files" from the confirmation dialog, all the backup files from this backup will be deleted. Warning, this is an irreversible operation. Parked - Check this option if you want the selected backup to be "parked". . Parking the backup is a way of protecting the backup set's files. A parked backup cannot be deleted by the program (automatically) nor can it be deleted by the user. To delete a parked backup, uncheck the Parked flag by clicking again on this menu item.Backup properties: Displays the properties of the selected backup set.<h2> Log menu</h2> Cobian Backup 9 engine logs all the operations into a log file. The user interface has also a "Log" tab which logs the user interface related activities. Clear the "Log" tab - Clears all the text from the "Log" tab. Select all - marks all the text on the "Log" tab. Copy the selected text - Copies the selected text into the clipboard.Print log - Prints the "Log" tab.Open log file - Opens the log file in an external text editor.Delete the log file - Deletes the engine's log file<h2>Tools</h2> Check for new versions - Checks if new versions are available. This can be configured to happen automatically on the <a href="options_en.htm">Options</a> dialog box. Decrypting tool - Starts the Decrypting tool to decrypt files or directories. Translation tool - Starts the translation tool. You can translate the program to your language. Feel free to send your translation to me and I will publish it in my website as a download and will include it into the official program download. When translating, be aware that there are 2 files you must translate : the cms file and the cui file. The last one contains all the strings to be used on the user interface. It is VERY important that you try to keep the strings size when possible on this file. If the new translated string is larger that the original the user interface could get sometimes "deformed" and will look weird. Deleter: All file operations in Cobian Backup 9 are unicode. This means that the limits for file names and paths are nearly 32000 characters. Unfortunatly, Windows Explorer can only handle a length of 255 charactes. Sometines the program can create paths with files names that cannot be handled by Explorer. If you need to delete those files, using this utility is your solution. Miscellanious: Encode a password or encode/decode a date/time value to be used in the ini file created by Cobian Backup 9. Remote client: Cobian Backup 9 can now be almost completely controlled remotely. Use this client to connect to a remote machine and control a Cobian Backup 9 installation. The remote program must be configured first to accept the connections from your IP address. The default port used for remote connections is 13403 Repare permissions: Cobian Backup 9 uses a set of files to store the settings and your lists. Because the user interface and the engine may be running as different users, and both can (and need) to modify those files, the DB and Settings subdirectories need to have full permissions for everyone to function well. This utility (which must be run under an account with Administrative powers) will check and repair those permissions for you. <h2>Options  </h2> Configure the program. <a href="options_en.htm">Read more here</a>. <h2>Help</h2> Index - Shows the help file <a href="PayPal.htm">Donate via PayPal</a> <a href="index_en.htm">Index</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> ⌐2000-2008 by Luis Cobian All rights reserved</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>