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<p class="h1-center">Backups</p>
<p class="normal"><b>Cobian Backup 8</b> keeps the history of all your
tasks backup on a database. You can see them on the Backup history
list on the user interface.
<p class="normal">You can always restore your files manually by
copying/unzipping the backup files into the original destination. If
the files are encrypted, use the Decrypting tool that is provided
with the program to decrypt the files first.<p class="normal">
If your backup is set to NOT overwrite existing backups, every new
backup will create a new file or directory with the same name, but
with the date and time of the backup as a complement.
<p class="normal">For example: If the original file is SimCity.exe,
and the backup is NOT set to overwrite, every new backup will create: </p>
<p class="normal">SimCity.exe <br>
SimCity 2003-04-13 12;22.exe <br>
SimCity 2003-04-14 12;22.exe <br>
SimCity 2003-04-15 12;22.exe , etc </p>
<p class="normal">Now it's easy to maintain a limited number of
copies of every backup and delete the old ones. On the task
options you can set that you want, for example, maintain only 2
copies of the backup. </p>
<p class="normal">The older backups will be deleted then. You can
always <b>PARK</b> a backup to prevent it from being deleted. This
is specially important for incremental backups when the first backup
will usually be full and the next backup only partial.</p>
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