Copyright: Copyright © 1997, Douglas Nichols
Citation: Copyright © 1997, Douglas Nichols


Welcome

Welcome to Saros Snapshot, the backup and version control utility from Saros Software. This program is designed to make management of your documents quick and easy. It is a small, uncomplicated program but nevertheless has a surprising amount of flexibility under the covers.

If you’ve ever thought,
“I wish I had kept a copy of last week’s version of this document”,
Saros Snapshot may be just what you’re after.

If you are trying Saros Snapshot for the first time, you may want to read a quick summary of what the program does, and work through the example in Getting Started. You can, of course, use the table of contents and the index to find your way around this manual, or just follow the links between the topics. The << and >> buttons at the top of each page allow you to scroll page-by-page right through the manual.

You will also find that the fields and buttons on the program’s maintenance forms have popup help of their own for immediate assistance.

We sincerely hope that you will like this program and will want to continue using it beyond the 60 day evaluation period. For this you will need to purchase a licence and obtain a registration number. See ordering and registration.

If you decide you do not want to continue using the program, removing Saros Snapshot from your computer is easy.

Ideas for enhancements are always welcome. See support and contact.


What Saros Snapshot Does

Saros Snapshot performs its backup operations using standard file copying commands. This means there are no specially formatted or compressed backup files that require special tools for recovery [image] you can use Explorer, My Computer or Network Neighborhood to browse through backed-up files and folders to view or recover any portion of a backup at any time.

Saros Snapshot goes a long way beyond simple file copying, however. With it you can:

•	Define sets of folders and file types for different types of backups. Your sets (and the parts comprising them) are listed on the main window and can be modified at any time using the Configure Set and Configure Part forms.

•	Nominate multiple possible targets for a set, and choose one of them when running a backup for that set. Example targets might be a removable disk, networked computer, floppy disk, or (as a working copy rather than a backup) simply another folder on your hard disk.

•	Use numbered cycles to create an archive of successive versions of your documents, with a different cycle limit for each target.

•	Perform a dummy test run for a set to check that everything will work. (See the menu options for the sets list.)

•	Run the program in a safe command-line mode that can automatically run specified backup operations with all other facilities disabled.

•	View details of backup commands after a backup (including error messages if something went wrong).

•	Interrupt and stop a backup before it completes.


Getting Started

This section provides a hands-on exercise to get you started using the program. After you have worked through this section you should have a good grasp of how to configure and run your backups.

Create Folders and a Document

First you need to use Explorer to create a couple of folders on your hard disk for test purposes. They can be deleted after you have finished this exercise.

1.	In the left hand section of the Explorer click on “C:” to ensure you have selected your hard disk.

2.	Select the File..New..Folder menu option, and then name the new folder “Test Source”.

3.	Select the File..New..Folder menu option again, and name the second new folder “Test Target”.

4.	Double-click on the Test Source folder’s icon in the Explorer. The right-hand section of the Explorer window should be empty, with the text “Contents of ‘C:\Test Source’” at the top.

5.	Select the File..New..Text Document menu option, then name the new document “Test Document”.

6.	Double-click on this document’s icon to use the notepad tool to make a change to the document’s contents.

7.	Type anything you like into the notepad window and then save the document and exit from notepad.

At this stage you should have a folder called “Test Source” containing a document called “Test Document”, and an empty folder called “Test Target”.

You now need to configure Saros Snapshot to backup this document.

Create a Set

The first thing you need to do is create a set. A set tells the program where to find the documents you want backed up, and where to put the copies it creates.

In this exercise the backup copies will be placed in the “Test Target” folder, which is on the same drive as the original document itself. This is not a good idea for real backups!

1.	Start the Saros Snapshot program.

2.	Click with the right mouse button in the sets list (the one with “Set” as the first column header), then select New from the popup menu. This should display the Configure Set dialog.

3.	In the Name field, enter “Test Set”.

4.	Click on the Browse button to the right of the Source field, and locate and select the C: drive of your computer. This tells the program that all the files for backup are contained on this drive. (You can select a specific folder on the drive if you want, but for this exercise the drive itself is recommended.)

5.	Leave the Tag field blank (this is used for command-line operations which are not covered in this exercise).

6.	Click on the Browse button to the right of the Target field, and locate and select the “Test Target” folder on the C: drive of your computer. This tells the program where to put the documents you want backed up.

7.	Change the Cycle Limit from 1 to 2 (you can click on the little up-arrow to do this). This tells the program that you want to keep two copies of your documents in the backup folder. (So when you run the backup a third time, the first backup copy of your documents will be deleted.)

8.	Click OK. The new set should now be listed in the sets list.

Create a Part

The last step before you can run a backup is to create a part. This tells the program which particular files or file types you want to backup.

1.	Click with the right mouse button in the parts list (the one with “Path” as the first column header), then select New from the popup menu. This should display the Configure Part dialog, showing the first of three tab sheets.

2.	On the Path tab, click on the browse button on the right. Locate and select the “Test Source” folder. This should then be displayed in the field on the Path tab. This is all you need to do to configure a part for this set.

3.	Click OK. The new part should now be displayed in the parts list. Notice that a file type of *.* has been added automatically. This tells the program to backup every file it finds.

Test Run and Real Run

Click with the right mouse button on your new set in the Sets list, and select Test Run from the popup menu. If there are any problems you will see a dialog with a red warning symbol on it. Click on OK and then take a look at the results list to find out what went wrong. (The results list is below the parts list; you might need to drag the splitter bar beneath the parts list to reveal the results list.)

If the test run was successful, try a real run. Click again with the right mouse button on your new set in the Sets list, and select Run from the popup menu.

If the run was successful, check in the Explorer what has happened. You should see that a folder named “Test Set” has been created in the “Test Target” folder, and a numbered folder (1) has been created containing your source folder and its contents.

Try a second run and see what happens (you might need to select the Explorer’s View..Refresh menu option to see the changes). A second numbered folder (2) has been created but the first one is still there.

Try a third run. This time you should see that the first numbered folder (1) has been deleted and a new one (3) created.


Main Window

The main window of Saros Snapshot has two panes (sets list and parts list separated by a horizontal splitter bar.

Use the mouse to drag the splitter bar up and down to change the sizes of the panes. It is possible to drag the bar until the pane above or below it is completely hidden from view (the splitter bar remains active so the pane can be brought back into view easily).

Menu

(click on the menu options to find out what they do)

Status Bar

During backup operations the status bar provides a progress indicator and details of the current action. At other times it explains the purpose of menu items as you select each item.

Disabling of Update Facilities

Under normal operation entries in the two lists can be created, modified or deleted to allow the various sets, targets and parts to be configured. However, during the running of a backup, and at any time if the program has been started in command-line mode, these facilities are disabled.


Sets List

The top pane on the main window lists the sets and all their targets (a set with three targets will have three lines on the list, one for each target). Clicking on an entry in the sets list fills the parts list with all the parts for that set.

If a set has more than one target, it doesn’t matter which of those targets you click on: you get the same list of parts each time. This is because the parts belong to the set as a whole [image] different targets can’t have different parts.

Double-click an entry on the list to edit it using the Configure Set form. You will be editing the set’s basic details, along with the details relating to the specific target you selected.

Menu

Right-click on an entry in the list to display a popup menu of options relevant to the set and target you have highlighted (if you don’t have an entry highlighted, the only option available is for creating a new set).

Note: this menu is also available from the “Set” option on the program’s “File” menu.

(click on the menu options to find out what they do)


Parts List

The middle pane on the main window lists the parts belonging to the currently highlighted set in the sets list (if there is no highlighted entry in the sets list, the parts list is empty).

Double-click an entry on the list to edit it using the Configure Part form.

Menu

Right-click on an entry in the list to display a popup menu of options relevant to the part you have highlighted (if you don’t have an entry highlighted, not all options will be available).

Note: this menu is also available from the “Part” option on the program’s “File” menu.

(click on the menu options to find out what they do)


Checking Backup Results

When a backup finishes, a message is displayed giving basic information about whether or not the operation was successful. The message has four option buttons:

•	OK closes down the message window returning you to the Saros Snapshot main window;

•	View Details displays full details of the backup, including any error messages;

•	Help displays this page of the help manual;

•	Exit closes down Saros Snapshot immediately.

If there were problems during a backup, this warning symbol alerts you. Click on the View Details button to see details of what went wrong (these details are also available from the File..View Backup Details menu option on the main window, but are cleared if another backup is started).


Command Line Operations

Saros Snapshot provides an alternative mode of operation with three features:

•	Modifications to the configuration of sets, targets and parts are prevented;

•	The sets and targets shown on the sets list can be restricted;

•	A backup of each of the listed sets can be run automatically when the program is started.

To start the program in this mode, command line parameters are required.

Format

The general format for the command line data is:

tag [option]

Tag

The tag must be one of the tags used to identify a set’s targets. By nominating a tag, the program can determine which one of a set’s targets should be included on the list.

Only one tag may be specified.

Note: If the same tag name is used to identify targets in different sets, all such sets will be included on the list. This provides a convenient way to automatically run backups for several sets as a group. See the example below.

Option

The option can be one of two possible values, or may be omitted.

-auto	automatically runs backups for each of the targets listed as soon as the program starts.

-test	(or the equivalent -auto -test) runs dummy test backups for each target, performing all the same checks and providing all the same results as a normal run, but without any real backup actions. This allows, for example, a desktop shortcut for an automatic backup to be tested prior to use.

Omitting the option starts the program in command-line mode but does not automatically run any backups (in other words, the first two of the three features listed at the top of this page apply).

Example

If two sets both specify a folder on the floppy disk drive as a target, and both use the tag “To Floppy” to identify this target, then the following command line will automatically run a backup for both sets to the floppy disk drive when the program starts:

…\snapshot.exe To Floppy -auto

(the … should be replaced by the full path of the folder in which the Saros Snapshot program has been installed, such as “c:\Program Files\Saros Software\Snapshot”).


Configuring Sets
Configuring Sets (see also configuring parts)

In order to edit an entry on the sets list or create a new entry (either a new set or a new target for an existing set), the Configure Set form must be used.

•	To edit an existing entry on the sets list, double click the entry or select Edit… from the sets list menu.

•	To create a new entry, select New… or New Target… from the sets list menu.

The form is divided into two panels: “Set” and “Selected Target”. If you select an entry for a set with more than one target, the “Selected Target” panel contains only the details of the target you selected. To edit other targets for the same set, you must select those targets from the sets list and edit them separately.

The form provides popup help for each field.

The details about all of Saros Snapshot’s sets, targets and parts are recorded in the Saros Snapshot application folder (where the program was originally installed) in a file called snapshot.ini. It would be wise to include this file in one of the backup sets that is backed up regularly.

The file’s usual location (“c:\Program Files\Saros Software\Snapshot\snapshot.ini”) can cause a problem if this file is included in a set that has a source of “C:\”. The reason for the problem is that the resulting xcopy statement is likely to be too long (the maximum is 122 characters). The solution is to create a separate set specifically for this file with the file’s full path as the source.


Configuring Parts
Configuring Parts (see also configuring sets)

In order to edit an entry on the parts list or create a new entry, the Configure Part form must be used.

•	To edit an existing entry on the parts list, double click the entry or select Edit… from the parts list menu.

•	To create a new entry, select New… from the parts list menu (you can also copy and paste entries between sets using options on this menu).

The form is divided into three tabbed panels, for Path, File Types and Options. You can move freely between all three panels before clicking on OK or Cancel to end the edit session and return to the main form.

Note: If you create a part for a set without specifying any file types, a default entry of “*.*” (i.e. all files) is automatically applied.

The form provides popup help for each of the fields on the three panels.

Study the options panel carefully [image] many different “flavours” of usage for this program are possible depending on your choices here. In particular:

/S is useful for duplicating a folder and all its subfolders. This is likely to be the option you use most often.
/U (provided cycles are not being generated for the set) is useful for copying large numbers of specific files [image] too many to name individually [image] when there are others in the same source folders that you do not wish to backup.
/D can speed up a backup (provided cycles are not being generated for the set) by copying only those files that have changed since the last backup was run for that target. This is particularly useful in combination with /U.


Ordering and Registration
Ordering and Registration (see also order form, conditions of use)

Saros Snapshot is not free software. If you want to continue using this program beyond the 60 day evaluation period you must register the program by purchasing a licence.

Benefits of Registering

•	The unregistered version of the program stops performing backups after the 60 day evaluation period has expired, but with a licence you can use the program indefinitely;

•	The “reminder screen” will no longer be displayed when you start the program;

•	The program’s title no longer includes the text “Unregistered User”;

•	Your name is included in the Help..About box;

•	Your licence number will be valid for future releases of the program until further notice;

•	You help support the author who may then be able to provide further releases of the program with extra features;

•	You may receive notice of new releases and other product information from time to time.

How to Purchase a Licence and Register the Program

Send a completed copy of the order form, together with your payment, to the address shown on the form. In return you will receive (by email or post) a registration number. Enter this registration number and your name (exactly as you supplied on the order form) into the fields on the “reminder screen” that is displayed when you start the evaluation version of the program.

Cost and Acceptable Methods of Payment

The preferred method of payment is a cheque in Australian dollars drawn on an Australian bank, in which case the cost is A$20. Credit card orders for this amount are also acceptable.

Payment in any other currency (by cheque, bank draft or money order) is slightly more expensive to cover bank fees at this end. The cost in this case is either US$18, or, for other currencies, the equivalent of A$25 at the latest exchange rate.

Please note that personal cheques (cheques other than bank drafts) in a currency other than Australian dollars may take several weeks to clear [image] don’t use this method of payment if you are in a hurry for your registration number!

All cheques etc. should be made payable to Saros Software.


Order Form
Order Form for Saros Snapshot 1.1

All orders are subject to the Saros Snapshot Conditions of Use.

Name (block letters)

Company

Registered Name*

*Print clearly (with your choice of upper and lower-case) [image] this name, along with your registration number, will need to be entered on the reminder screen of Saros Snapshot in order to register the program.

Address

Country	Postcode/Zip

Telephone	Fax

Email Address

Registration number to be sent by:	Email [    ]	Post [    ]	Fax [    ]

How did you find out about Saros Snapshot?

Method of Payment:	Cheque, Money Order etc. [    ]	Credit Card [    ]

Please debit my: Mastercard [    ]	Visa [    ]	Bankcard [    ]	AUD$20

Card Number	Expiry Date

Name (as it appears on the card)

Signature

Print and complete a copy of this form, and mail (with your payment if appropriate) to:

Saros Software
P.O. Box 108
South Hobart
Tasmania 7004
Australia.


Support
Support and Contact

Suggestions for Enhancements and Other Feedback

Suggestions for enhancements are always welcome. If you have tried this program and have decided you do not want to continue using it, a quick note to let me know of any ways in which you think it could be improved would be of great value. Your feedback is sought!

The author can be contacted by email or post:

Email:	dnichols@tassie.net.au

Post:	Douglas Nichols
Saros Software
PO Box 108
South Hobart
Tasmania 7004
Australia

Technical Support

Before contacting the author for assistance, please study this help file; the popup help on each field of the edit dialogs; and the Saros Snapshot web page (see below) in case your question has already been answered.

If you need to contact the author, please provide the following information in addition to the details of your problem or query:

•	All available details from the program’s Help..About box (program version, name and registration number if applicable);

•	The operating system you are using (e.g. Windows 95).

The strongly preferred means of contact is email to dnichols@tassie.net.au. Telephone support is also available during Eastern Australian office hours (GMT+10 hours) on 03 62349391 (international+61 3 62349391).

Saros Snapshot Home Page

You might also like to check the Saros Snapshot web site at http://www.tassie.net.au/saros/snapshot/snapshot.html for possible assistance.


Conditions of Use

Licence

Saros Software grants you a limited licence to use this software for evaluation purposes for a period not to exceed sixty days. If you continue using this software after the sixty-day evaluation period, you MUST make a registration payment to Saros Software.

You may freely distribute the unregistered shareware version of this program to your friends or colleagues, provided that such distribution is in the form of the single archive file or executable setup program file that was originally supplied to you, and provided that such distributions are made without charge. Any other distribution of Saros Snapshot must satisfy the conditions of the Limited Distribution Licence given in the file “vendinfo.diz” that is part of the archive file in which this program is normally packaged.

One registered copy of Saros Snapshot may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it is being used at another.

This product (in whole or in part, including all files, data, and documentation) is Copyright 1997 Douglas Nichols. You may not use, copy, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile, disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the product except as provided in this agreement. Any such unauthorised use shall result in immediate and automatic termination of this licence.

Disclaimer of Warranty

To the extent permitted by law the author

i)	disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose; and

ii)	assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of Saros Snapshot.


Installing and Uninstalling Saros Snapshot

Uninstalling

Important: If you have a registered copy of Saros Snapshot and you do not have your registration number handy, you will find this number displayed in the Help..About dialog. Make a note of this number before uninstalling the program.

To remove this program from your computer, first click on the Start button on the task bar along the bottom of the screen and select Settings..Control Panel. Double click on the Add/Remove Programs icon.

Locate and select Saros Snapshot in the list of programs that is presented to you, then click on the Add/Remove button. Saros Snapshot will be removed from your computer, including this help file!

Note: The uninstall process does not delete the file that contains the configuration details of the sets and parts you may have set up. This is so that you can safely uninstall and re-install (to install a new version of the program, for example) without losing the configuration details of your backups.
To delete this file, use Explorer to locate the folder where Saros Snapshot was installed (usually “c:\Program Files\Saros Software\Snapshot”). Inside this folder will be the file snapshot.ini. Delete the file, or the folder itself.

Installing a New Version

To install a new version of Saros Snapshot, simply uninstall your present version (as described above), then install the new version using the setup program that is supplied for that purpose. Your configuration details of sets and parts will not be affected by this process. You may find, however, that your preferences for window size and position, and the widths of the various columns in the sets and parts lists, have changed.

Don’t forget to make a note of your registration number before uninstalling!


(Miscellaneous popup topics…)


The maintenance forms have context sensitive help to describe the usage and purpose of each field on the forms. Click on the question mark on the right of the form’s title bar, then click on any of the fields.


Boo !


You have just opened a wormhole in space and entered an alternative, imperceptibly different, universe. This sort of thing happens all the time and is not a cause for concern.


A set is a pre-defined list of folders and files (or types of files) that you want to backup up as a unit. You give sets names, such as “Daily” or “Copy of My Documents”. You can run a backup for a set at any time. The name of the set can be used to create a folder into which all the files and folders that comprise the set are copied during a backup operation.


A part is a distinct backup action of a set. A set can have many parts (up to 200 to be precise), each one specifying a sub-folder, a list of file types to copy from that folder (or its sub-folders), and any options that are appropriate.

As an example, if you have a set called “Daily Backup” with a source folder of “C:\”, you might want two parts: the first to copy all files from the “My Documents” folder (using the /S option to include all the sub-folders), and the second to copy the single file that records faxes from your system’s fax-modem application folder.


A target is a folder, disk drive or networked computer that is to be used as a destination for a backup operation on a set. A set can have more than one target defined for use at any time (so that, for example, you can backup a set to a folder on a second hard disk at intervals during the day, and then backup the same set to a removable disk drive at the end of the day). Targets have unique identifying tags which are used for command line operation.


A cycle is a numbered folder, created during a backup operation, to contain all of the files and folders that comprise a set. For example, if the target folder is “A:\Snapshot” and the set’s next cycle is 7, then all required subfolders and files for this set will be copied to “A:\Snapshot\7”. (You can also include the name of the set, as well as the cycle number, in the target path.) The program automatically increments the next cycle for a set after a backup operation. Use the Configure Set form to control this option for each set.


For a set that uses cycles and that has several targets defined, you will probably not want the same number of cycles to be retained on each target (a floppy disk won’t hold as many cycles as a removable hard disk, for example, or you may only want to retain one cycle on a certain target anyway). The program deletes old cycles as necessary when you run a backup.  Use the Configure Set form to specify this value for each of a set’s targets.


Saros Snapshot  uses the system command xcopy to perform its backup operations. Xcopy is a powerful and flexible tool for copying files and folders from one location to another, but it must be used with care. Saros Snapshot provides you with convenient, Windows based forms for configuring and running your backups so that you don’t need to know how to use xcopy directly.

There are numerous options that can be used with xcopy to allow you to control exactly what files and folders to copy (for example, allowing you to copy entire folders and sub-folders, including empty ones). Most of these options are available from Saros Snapshot using the Configure Part form.


Set and Part provide options that are also available from context menus (using the right mouse button) from the sets list and parts list of the main window.

View Backup Details displays a list of backup commands and other details after a run has been performed.
(Exit closes down Saros Snapshot)


Stop!
The Stop! option on the program’s main menu is only enabled when a backup is in progress. Use it to interrupt the backup process. The backup will pause and you can then choose to stop it completely or resume.

Note: the backup process may have commenced an action that will take some time to complete; if so, the backup may continue for a little while after you have clicked on Stop!


Help Topics displays this manual.
About provides version and copyright information.


Edit…
Loads the selected set and target details into the Configure Set form for viewing or modification.


Delete
Removes the highlighted entry from the sets list. If the set has more than one target, only the specific target you have selected will be removed from the list. If the set has only one target, the set itself is removed, along with all its parts currently showing in the parts list. You are asked to confirm your decision before any action is taken.

Note: this action deletes only the configuration details [image] it does not delete any actual files or folders that may have been created from backup operations for this set.


New Target…
Loads the selected set details into the Configure Set form, leaving the target details (tag, target path and cycle limit) blank ready for entry of a new target. The new target will be added to the sets list immediately following the targets that already exist for the set.


New…
Displays the Configure Set form with all fields blank ready for entry of a new set and its first target.


Run
Runs a backup for the selected set. No confirmation is sought, but the backup can be stopped at any time using the main window’s Stop! menu option. Before any files or folders are copied all the configuration details for the set are checked. Any problems are reported on the results list and the backup is stopped. See checking backup results.


Test Run
Runs a backup in test mode. This performs all the preliminary checks of a normal backup, and steps through every backup action, producing results in the results list as for a normal run, but does not actually perform any of the actions.


Edit…
Loads the selected part details into the Configure Part form for viewing or modification.


Delete
Removes the highlighted parts from the set (you can select multiple parts for deletion). You are asked to confirm your decision before any action is taken.

Note: this action deletes only the configuration details [image] it does not delete any actual files or folders that may have been created from backup operations for this part.


Copy
Records the parts you have selected (you can select more than one) and makes the Paste option available so that the parts can be duplicated in another set.


Paste
Pastes previously copied parts into the currently highlighted set. This option is available after some parts have been “copied” using the Copy option, and provided pasting the parts will not cause the set to have more than the maximum of 200 parts.


New…
Displays the Configure Part form with all fields blank ready for entry of a new part for the currently highlighted set.


To print a copy of this form, click on Print Topic… from the File menu of this help window.


(Set Dialog popup topics…)


The set name must be unique and must not contain any of the following special characters: < > : " / \ | * ?


Check this option to force the name of the set to be used as a subfolder name in the target path for the xcopy statements for this set.
For example, if the target folder is “A:\Snapshot” and the set is “Daily”, checking this option will copy all required files from the source to “A:\Snapshot\Daily”.


Displays the source drive or folder selected by clicking on the Browse button to the right. All the parts for this set should have paths that are folders or sub-folders of this drive or folder.


Displays a form for selection of the source folder.


If this set uses numbered cycles, the next cycle is indicated by this field. For example, if the target folder is “A:\Snapshot”, the set name “Daily”, and the next cycle 7, then all required subfolders and files for this set will be copied to “A:\Snapshot\Daily\7”.
NB: Manual changes to this field are not usually required.


Check this option to force sequentially increasing numbered subfolders to used as part of the target path for files in this set.


A tag allows a target to be included in a command-line backup operation. A tag must be unique for all targets in a set, but using the same tag for targets in different sets allows multiple sets to be included in a backup operation (a command line of “To Floppy” will include every target with a tag of this name).


Displays the target drive or folder selected by clicking on the Browse button to the right. A set may have several target folders. Only one is shown here - the one that was selected on the Sets list on the main form.


Displays a form for selection of the target folder.


Specifies a limit to the number of cycles that can exist under a target folder at any one time. Your choice here will depend upon how much data is copied for all the set’s parts, how much space is available for this target, and how many cycles you wish to preserve.


(Part Dialog popup topics…)


Displays the folder selected by clicking on the Browse button. Files and subfolders of this folder (subject to the file-types and options specified on the other two pages) will be copied during a backup operation.


 Displays a form for selection of a folder. Your selection will be restricted to the set’s source folder and any sub-folders it contains.


Shows the file type filters that will be used to build up xcopy statements for this part. The entries are enclosed in braces by the Snapshot program for readability only. The default “*.*” (all files) is used if you enter nothing.
Tip: You can copy all the file-type filters from one part to another by selecting and copying the contents of this field (use the right mouse button), then pasting this selection into another part’s edit field and clicking Add.


Lists the file type specifiers from the display-only field above. Clicking on an entry displays it in the edit panel on the right for alteration or removal.


Displays the currently selected entry from the list for alteration or removal. Also allows new entries to be added to the list.


Clicking on Add adds the entry in the edit field to the list as a new entry provided it does not duplicate an entry already in the list.


Clicking on Replace replaces the currently selected list entry with the entry in the text field, provided the new entry is not already present in the list.


Clicking on Remove deletes the currently selected entry from the list.


Shows the options that will be applied to the xcopy statements used to perform the backup for this part.


Lists the xcopy options that are supported by the Snapshot program. Double-click an option to add it to the options applying to this part. Double-click again to remove it.


(Reminder Dialog popup topics…)


Allows use of the program as an unregistered user. The program is fully functional during the 60 day evaluation period but after that ceases to allow backups to be performed.


Allows entry of your registered name and number in the fields below this option.


Enter your registered name and number in these two fields (you must purchase a licence to obtain a valid number). Take care to enter the name and number exactly as printed on the licence details you received. You can then click Proceed in order to become a registered user.