Is one-way live (real-time) back-up possible?

[marcov]

Is it possible let FBackup (or the paid version) make immediate backups of data as soon as it detects a change (added file) to a specified folder? In the wizard, I only saw the option to set 'Daily' as minimum interval, but I would like it to backup data immediately. I don't need two-way sync, one-way backup is fine.

Thanks.

[Adrian (Softland)]

Hi,

As FBackup is not a monitoring application, you cannot do the backup right after a file was modified.
You can schedule the backup to be executed "daily" but in the advanced page of the scheduler, you can set the scheduler to repeat every X minutes.
This way, you can run the backup every minute every day.

[marcov]

Thanks, that works! And can I program it to only keep an X number of copies of a backup, either in the free or paid version? For example, only keep the most recent backup files for 5 days, delete/overwrite any that are older?

[marcov]

Can I program it to only keep an X number of copies of a backup, either in the free or paid version? For example, only keep the most recent backup files for 5 days, delete/overwrite any that are older?

[Adrian (Softland)]

Hi,

Yes you can do that but only in the paid version (Backup4all).
You need to configure a Cleanup scheduled action to run every day and delete the backup versions older than X days.

[marcov]

Hi,

Yes you can do that but only in the paid version (Backup4all).
You need to configure a Cleanup scheduled action to run every day and delete the backup versions older than X days.

I installed the trial version of Backup4all and imported the backup task from FBackup, but the Cleanup task is greyed out (in the What tab of Scheduler Properties).

[marcov]

Hi,

Yes you can do that but only in the paid version (Backup4all).
You need to configure a Cleanup scheduled action to run every day and delete the backup versions older than X days.

Does the cleanup scheduled action work for both local backups (to a NAS) as well as Google Drive (i.e. can it delete files older than X days from both NAS and Google Drive)?

[Adrian (Softland)]

Hi,

Yes, you can use Cleanup with any destination except CD/DVD/Blu-ray.

[marcov]

Hi,

Yes, you can use Cleanup with any destination except CD/DVD/Blu-ray.

I installed the trial version of Backup4all and imported the backup task from FBackup, but the Cleanup task is greyed out (in the What tab of Scheduler Properties).

[marcov]

I'm trying to setup Google Drive as destination. After Backup4all prompts me to login to Google Drive, which I can successfully do, it asks me select the Destination folder on Google Drive. After I click Sign in and select my account, I get:

403. That’s an error.

We're sorry, but you do not have access to this page. That’s all we know.

I tried this with several Google accounts, all return the same error.