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This section provides an overview of the various tools and features that Backup Exec offers.
The title bar contains five menu items: Job, Edit, View, Tools, and Help. You can access these menus and the submenu items at any time.
The Backup, Restore, and Compare tabs appear at the top of the main application window. Click these tabs to move between program functions.
Use Backup Exec's toolbar to select program features with a single mouse click. Hold the cursor over a button for a short description of its function.
Toolbar buttons (listed from left to right) perform the following functions:
Drives and files are selected the same way in Backup Exec as they are in Windows Explorer. Selection panes are used to select and deselect drives, folders, and files for backup and restore.
The two sections of the selection panes are:
All Folders Pane
-- On the left. Displays a list of your computer's drives and folders.
Contents Pane
-- On the right. When a folder is highlighted in the All Folders Pane, the files and folders in that folder appear in the Contents Pane.
Click the Expand
/Collapse
button to expand or collapse a folder.
Click a selection check box to select or deselect files and folders.
The Backup Exec on-line help system provides in-depth information about the program and its functions.
Context-sensitive help provides you with information about the current window, dialog box, or program message. To get context-sensitive help on the current operation, press Shift
+F1
on your keyboard.
The Help menu provides help for each program function and assistance with backup and restore concepts and skills. There are three items in the Help
menu: Help Topics, Using Help, and About Backup Exec.
Help Topics opens the Help window, which contains three tabs.
| A book represents a help category containing subtopics. Double-click the book to open it. |
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| A page represents a help topic. Double-click it to open the help window for that topic. |
The Using Help menu item provides help for the help system. It explains how to use Help effectively and how to customize your Help system.
About Backup Exec displays your software's version number and licensing information.
Job
menu, click Exit
.Close
button.
You are asked if you want to save any changes to your current backup job. Click Yes
to
save your backup job or click No
to discard the changes. The application closes.
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