1. A separate folder on the machines hard disk, this is useful if you need your files backed up against deletion, however it will not protect you from a hardware / disk failure.+
   
2. A secure partition machines hard disk, this is useful if you need your files backed up against deletion, however it will not protect you from a hardware / disk failure.+
   
3. An external hard drive, data is stored on an external drive this is a good solution as it gives you another layer of protection and fast restores,  the external drive can also be removed and stored in another location.
   
4. An external hard drive with a secure partition.  This allows you to have addition security to protect your data.
   
5. An NFS (network share)  If you have a NAS in your lactation (Qnap, Synology, Western Digital, Baffalo Terrastation etc) you can setup an NFS share to save your backups to, this is a good solution as a NAS systems often but not always offer disk redundancy giving you another layer of protection. 
   

1. Setting up local backups on the same hard drive and the cloud

Login to your Backoops protection portal and click on cyber protection

Click on devices, your devices will then be displayed, click on the gear icon on the system you wish to make a secure zone on and click details.

Then click on Create Secure Zone

Click select

Select the your systems hard drive by clicking on it, in our example it is disk 1

Use the slider to mange the size of your secure partition.

If there is not enough unallocated space free space will be taken from all volumes where it is present.

You many just want to select your c: if this is your main partition

If you wish to enable password protection please do so by clicking the password protection switch (recommended)

Then click Create, if the partitions need to be resized your system will need to be rebooted, please reboot it as requested.

once rebooted the secure zone will have been created

Login to your Backoops protection portal and click on cyber protection

Click on devices, your devices will then be displayed

Click on the enable protection button and click create plan in the right corner

Click on where to backup

Then click on the secure zone you have just created

If you wish to change when the backup is ran please edit the schedule, information on this can be found here.

If you wish to change how long to keep the backup it can be edited now, information on this can be found here.

If you wish to enable encryption this can be done now, information on this can be found here.

If you also wish for this backup to be saved to the Backoops cloud click Add location, this will add a second backup to our redundant cloud storage.

Click Create at the top right of the page and protection plan will be applied to the system.

The backup has now been scheduled but to run it straight away click Backup on the right menu

Then click run now to start the backup

3. Setting up backups to an external drive and the cloud

Login to your Backoops protection portal and click on cyber protection

Click on devices, your devices will then be displayed

Click on the enable protection button and click create plan in the right corner

Click on where to backup

Make sure your external hard drive is plugged in and you know its drive letter, once plugged in the drive should appear in the file explorer

In our demonstration our external drive is D:

Then click on click on add location at the bottom of the page

If you wish to put your backups in a separate folder on the drive, hover over D: and click the gear icon and click new folder

In the example we are using the folder backups, type the name you wish to create and click OK

Click the newly created backup folder and click ADD

If you wish to change when the backup is ran please edit the schedule, information on this can be found here.

If you wish to change how long to keep the backup it can be edited now, information on this can be found here.

If you wish to enable encryption this can be done now, information on this can be found here.

If you also wish for this backup to be saved to the Backoops cloud click Add location, this will add a second backup to our redundant cloud storage.

Click Create at the top right of the page and protection plan will be applied to the system.

The backup has now been scheduled but to run it straight away click Backup on the right menu

Then Click run now to start the backup

4. Setting up backups to an external drive with secure partition and the cloud

Login to your Backoops protection portal and click on cyber protection

Click on devices, your devices will then be displayed, click on the gear icon on the system you wish to make a secure zone on and click details.

Then click on Create Secure Zone

Click select

Select the disk you wish to enable the secure zone on, in our example we are using disk 2

If you wish to use the entire space on the disk drag the slider all the way to the right otherwise select the size required.

if you wish to password protect the secured zone (recommended)  toggle the password button and enter the password in the popup boxes.

Click Create

Click Create

The Secure Zone is then created

Once this has been completed click the X on the activity details panel.

Then click the X on the system details panel

Click on the enable protection button and click create plan in the right corner

You will now be taken back to the devices screen, click on enable protection for the machine you wish to backup to the secure partition on the external drive

Click create new plan

Click on where to backup

Then select the secure zone you created created earlier by double clicking it

If you wish to change when the backup is ran please edit the schedule, information on this can be found here.

If you wish to change how long to keep the backup it can be edited now, information on this can be found here.

If you wish to enable encryption this can be done now, information on this can be found here.

If you also wish for this backup to be saved to the Backoops cloud click Add location, this will add a second backup to our redundant cloud storage.

Click Create at the top right of the page and protection plan will be applied to the system.

The backup has now been scheduled but to run it straight away click Backup on the right menu

Then Click run now to start the backup

5. Setting up local backups on an NFS / Network share (NAS) and cloud backup

Login to your Backoops protection portal and click on cyber protection

Click on devices, your devices will then be displayed

Click on the enable protection button and click create plan in the right corner

Click on where to backup

Then click on add location at the bottom of the page

Now select network folder

Now navigate to your network share, in our example our share is called NASBOX and we have created the folder backups on the share.

You maybe asked to enter your user credentials for the network share, if you are please do this.

Click on the folder within the share where you wish to store the backups, in this example we are using backups as a destination folder.

Then click ADD at the bottom right of the screen

If you wish to change when the backup is ran please edit the schedule, information on this can be found here.

If you wish to change how long to keep the backup it can be edited now, information on this can be found here.

If you wish to enable encryption this can be done now, information on this can be found here.

If you also wish for this backup to be saved to the Backoops cloud click Add location, this will add a second backup to our redundant cloud storage.

Click Create at the top right of the page and protection plan will be applied to the system.

The backup has now been scheduled but to run it straight away click Backup on the right menu

Then Click run now to start the backup