Creating new backup profiles

Abacre Backup is a powerful profile backup system intended for multi-profile backup. It means that you can create two, three, four or much more profiles and run them at the same time.
Click Profile -> New profile or simply click New profile button on toolbar to create new backup profile.

New profile type window will appear. Now define profile name then choose Backup option and click Next button.

Source files window will appear. Click Add button and select backup directory, after selecting click Ok button. Selected directory will appear in the backup list. You can select more than one directory to backup by clicking Add button, also you can remove directory from the list by selecting it and clicking Remove button. After adding directories to the list, click Next button.

Destination files window will appear. Now you need to define a path where backup files will be stored. First of all choose location where to save your backup files. It can be file system, for example drive D: on your computer, or FTP server. If you have chosen file system as a location, you need to define a full path where backup files will be stored by clicking Browse button. If you have chosen FTP server as a location, you need to define your FTP server's host, user name, user password, port (by default: 21) and a path where backup files will be stored. Click Next button to proceed.

File types window will appear. Click Add button, enter file mask and choose file type option. For example if you need to include to your backup archive files only with *.exe extension, in mask box enter *.exe and choose include option. If you don't need to include files to your backup archive with *.ini extension, in mask box enter *.ini and choose exclude option. If you need to include all files to your backup archive, enter *.* in the mask box and choose include option. Click Next button to proceed.

That's all! Click Finish button to add profile. Now you can start backup process by selecting your added profile from the list of all existing profiles and clicking Profile -> Execute profile or clicking Execute button on toolbar.

Creating new backup profiles

See also: