Titan Backup offers you a set of options so that you can choose the combination that suites you best. Titan Backup options are organized into 2 categories: compression & encryption and backup type options.
Titan Backup offers several compression and encryption options to secure your backup files. These options are editable from the Options tab of the create backup/edit backup task wizard:
Compression:
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For this option you can choose the compression quality: move the slider from Low to high in order to set the compression rate. Low means worse compression rate but best speed and High means best compression rate but slow speed. You can choose to create self-extracting archives that will allow you to unzip even if you don't have a compression tool. Self-extracting archives cannot be larger than 4 GB (Windows cannot work with .exe files that are larger than 4 GB). You can use incremental and differential options for a zipped backup, to any destinations (FTP, CD/DVD, etc.). You can choose to split your archive in chunks of predefined size. This is useful if you plan to write the archives on several CDs. Also, you can span a backup to multiple partitions, if you don't have enough space in one of these partitions, but the sum of the free spaces is enough to backup your compressed source in these partitions. For example, you can set as destination C:\First Folder;D:\Second Folder;E:\Third Folder (destinations must be separated by semicolon). You can use spanning only with compressed backup, you must be checked "Use Zip compression" in the Options tab, with Replace backup (incremental and differential backup must be unchecked). |
Encryption:
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For security reasons, if you edit the task, the password is not visible, but you can change it, by clicking to "Change Password" button. |
A backup task usually runs more then once. This raises the question of what to do with the previously created backups. Titan Backup offers 2 ways to handle this. You can choose your preferences in the Backup Type section of the Options tab while editing any backup task.
Replace Backup - with this option selected, when the application encounters an existing backup for the same task the new backup will replace the old one.
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With this selection you have 2 additional options available:
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Stack Backup - with this option selected, the Titan Backup creates different stacked copies with date tags. With this option you can choose to keep only the latest copies by marking the "keep only the last X versions".