Toshiba Magnia SG20 User Manual page 151

Managing the Server
2 Select the System tab and click the Backup menu item.
The System Backup screen appears.
Sample System backup screen
3 Select the manual backup option, and click Next.
NOTE: You may be asked to enter a level 3 account and password before
proceeding. For security reasons, backing up and restoring data are operations
restricted to level 3 user accounts.
Selecting backup type
First determine whether the backup is to be a partial, incremental or full backup.
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Full backups will save all user files from all of the user account personal directories,
the public directory, all user data from the Intranet, and optionally, system files can be
saved. Including system files in a full backup saves information about user accounts,
networking configurations and your Intranet content. If anything should happen to
your system, restoring a full backup with system files included should restore nearly
all of the server's configuration options and customizations, as well as all of your user
data. It is recommended that you periodically perform a full backup to assure you
have copies of all your files in case something happens to the server system.
While full backups are the most complete and offer the best protection, they can be
very large (even though they are compressed to minimize their size). As you place
more and more data on your Magnia SG20, the backup files can become quite large.
Consequently, you may not wish to perform full backups every time.
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As an alternative to a full backup, you can perform a partial backup. In this case, you
select only specific files for inclusion in the backup. This can reduce time required for
the backup process, as well as space required for the backup file. This method works
if you have a subset of files which are most critical and need to be backed up more
frequently than other files on the system.
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Backing up your data