This software backs up your important data by means of "Protection Plans".


The types of protection plans are:


  • Personal Data and Settings
  • Custom
  • Everything


(The following plans are only available with Server versions of this software)

  • Exchange Storage Groups
  • SQL Server Databases


The Personal Data and Settings protection plan is a built-in plan that protects the \Documents and Settings folder (Windows XP and Windows Server 2003) or \Users\UserName (Windows Vista/7/8/10 and Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019). See Selections tab for more information.


The Custom protection plan allows you to select the folders and files you want to store. See Selections tab for more information.


The Everything protection plan protects the local hard disk on your PC. All files and folders on the local hard disk will be protected. Customers with a huge number of files to protect may want to run an Everything backup first and then run custom protection plans that protect critical files thereafter.


The Exchange Storage Groups protection plan lets you protect Microsoft Exchange Storage Groups on your PC.


The SQL Server Databases protection plan lets you protect Microsoft SQL Server databases on your PC.


See Start tab for more information regarding files this software will not backup.


A Protection Plan keeps track of all the selected items and, after its initial run, will store only new and changed information. At the same time, each plan run creates a full recovery point.



Open File Backups


Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is used to ensure that open files are properly backed up.