Appendix A
Frequently Asked Questions
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When should I use the options to save my Personal Data
and Settings, Everything, or use a Custom plan? And what
do they protect?
You can create as many protection plans as you like to configure the
GoVault data protection software to save:
• Only your most important files
• Everything on all of your hard disk drives
• Anything in between
A protection plan keeps track of all the selected files and, after its initial
run, will only store new and truly unique data over time. A full recovery
point is created each time a plan is run. You don't need to worry about
plans having overlapping files—a file will only be stored once to the
cartridge.
You might want to configure your system to save all your files once a
week or once a month, and then create another protection plan to save
your most important files several times a day to protect against an
accidental deletion or a virus attack.
You can also designate specific cartridges for specific protection plans.
This is handy if you have more data than can fit on a single cartridge, or if
you have different kinds of data that can naturally be divided among two
or more cartridges.
For example, you might want to save Customer A-L files on one
cartridge, and Customer M-Z files on another. The GoVault data
protection software always knows which cartridge is inserted and what
plans to run for that cartridge.
When creating new protection plans, it helps to think about what you will
need if recovery of the data is required, then limit the plan to files and
folders affected by that scenario.
The Personal Data and Settings protection plan is a built-in plan that
stores data under the
Documents and Settings
folder (Windows XP SP2
and Windows Server 2003) or
Users\UserName
(Windows Vista). If you
store your documents in the
My Documents
folder by default, this plan
can help you easily backup and recover your document files.
