F-Secure Online Backup Help | TOC | 3 Contents F-Secure Online Backup Help.........5 Introduction ..........................6 What is F-Secure Online Backup?.................6 How does the program work? ..................6 Using the program for the first time ..................7 Activating the program....................7 Starting the first backup....................7 Buying a subscription........................9...
Chapter F-Secure Online Backup Help Topics: • Introduction • Using the program for the first time • Buying a subscription • Renewing your subscription • Backing up files • What if I want to stop backing up files? • Restoring backed up files •...
This F-Secure Online Backup guide describes and explains how you can use it. What is F-Secure Online Backup? The F-Secure Online Backup program is a software application, which you can use to back up and restore your pictures, videos, music, e-mail messages, and other documents.
Note: You may have more than one subscription key for different products, for example, one for the F-Secure Internet Security program and another for the F-Secure Online Backup program. Make sure that you enter the subscription key that you received for the F-Secure Online Backup program.
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Preferred upload speed drop-down menu. 5. Click Start. The F-Secure Online Backup main page opens. Depending on the backup type that you selected, the following happens: • If you selected the automatic backup, the application starts backing up your files.
F-Secure Online Backup Help | F-Secure Online Backup Help | 9 Buying a subscription You can buy a new subscription online, when you have a free trial version of the F-Secure Online Backup program. When your free trial period is about to expire, a reminder is shown when you open the program.
10 | F-Secure Online Backup Help | F-Secure Online Backup Help Renewing your subscription You can renew your subscription online. When your subscription is about to expire, a reminder is shown when you open the program. To renew your subscription: 1.
F-Secure Online Backup Help | F-Secure Online Backup Help | 11 Backing up files This chapter explains how you can back up files either automatically or manually. Backing up files manually This section explains how you can back up files manually on the Backup tab.
This section explains what is backed up in automatic backup. If you have selected automatic backup, the F-Secure Online Backup program starts to back up your files when you open the application. It searches your computer for office documents, pictures and videos, e-mail messages, Internet Explorer favorites, and files in the My Documents folder and on your desktop.
F-Secure Online Backup Help | F-Secure Online Backup Help | 13 Category File type Application / Extension CAD and modeling drawings dxf, .dwg, .mac, .pla, .pln, .pz3, .pzz files Other documents .pdf, .txt Pictures and videos All common digital camera and...
14 | F-Secure Online Backup Help | F-Secure Online Backup Help What if I want to stop backing up files? You can stop backing up files or you can temporarily stop backing them up. Stop backing up files temporarily You can temporarily stop the backing up of files for 1, 3 or 24 hours.
F-Secure Online Backup Help | F-Secure Online Backup Help | 15 Restoring backed up files This chapter explains how you can restore backed up files on the Restore tab. Restoring backed up files to your computer This section explains how you can restore backed up files to your computer.
You may sometimes want to restore a backup to another computer than the one that you used to create the backup. Keep in mind the following when restoring the files: After you have installed the F-Secure Online Backup program to a second computer with the same subscription key, e-mail address and password, no files are being backed up on the first computer anymore.
In the 'E-mail reports' list, you can select to receive by e-mail either a weekly backup report or no report at all. Note: In the F-Secure Online Backup web interface, you can add an e-mail address to which you want recieve the reports. You can use this additional e-mail address only for receiving the reports.
18 | F-Secure Online Backup Help | F-Secure Online Backup Help Setting up computer performance and backup speed To set up the computer performance and backup speed, see below. You can select one of the following options: • Performance: If you select the...
F-Secure Online Backup Help | F-Secure Online Backup Help | 19 1. Click the Settings tab. 2. Under "Proxy settings", click Change…. 3. To use a proxy, select the Use proxy option in the Proxy settings dialog box. The fields in the dialog become available.
The log is shown on the Backup tab. Viewing backed up files You can view the backed up files by using the F-Secure Online Backup program on your computer or in the F-Secure Online Backup web interface. Note: In Windows Explorer, you can quickly see which files or folders have been backed up. An orange dot on a file means that the file is waiting to be backed up.
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(3) once the log is open. For a more detailed and complete list of all the transfers performed by the F-Secure Online Backup program since it was installed, consult the application log files. They are saved automatically in the application installation...
F-Secure Online Backup program. Note: In the F-Secure Online Backup web interface, you can add an e-mail address to which you want to receive the reports. This additional e-mail address is used only for receiving the reports.
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