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The program menu bar features the Operations, View, Tools and Help items.
The Operations menu contains a list of the available operations.
The View menu contains items for managing the program window look:
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Toolbars – contains commands that control toolbar icons
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Common Task Bar – enables/disables the sidebar
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Status Bar – enables/disables the status bar
The Tools menu contains the following items:
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Explore Backup Archive – explore file-level archives or mount disk/partition images as
virtual drives
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Validate Backup Archive – run the archive integrity-checking procedure
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Create Bootable Rescue Media – run the bootable media creation procedure
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Show Log – open the Log Viewer window
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Options – open a window for editing default backup/restore options, setting text
appearance (fonts) etc
The Help menu is used to invoke help and obtain information about Apricorn EZ Gig II.
Status bar
At the bottom of the main window, there is a status bar divided into two parts. The left side
briefly describes the selected operation; the right side indicates operation progress and
results. If you double-click on the operation results, you will see the logs window.
Taskbar notification area icon
During most of the operations, a special indicator icon appears in the Windows taskbar
notification area (the right portion of the status bar with the clock). If you mouse over the
icon, you will see a tool tip indicating the operation’s progress. This icon doesn’t depend on
the main program window being open.
4.2 Available operations
You can perform the following operations on the computer.
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Back up and restore data, including system disks/partitions
Click Backup or Recovery, then follow the wizard’s instructions. See details in
Chapter 5.
Creating backup archives
and
Chapter 6. Restoring the backup data
.
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Browse logs of Apricorn EZ Gig II operation
Click Logs in the Manage Tasks group or select the Show Log tool on the sidebar to
navigate to the Event Log window. See details in
8.2 Viewing logs
.
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Set up backup/restore options, such as backup process priority or files overwriting
mode.
Select Tools -> Options -> Default backup options or Default restoration options
and make settings. See details in
5.2 Setting backup options
and
6.4 Setting restore
options.
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Validate backup archives wherever they reside, be it local, network or
removable media