PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME OF THE OPTIONS MAY NOT BE VISIBLE UNLESS THE "SHOW ADVANCED OPTIONS" FEATURE IS ENABLED IN THE LOWER LEFT SECTION OF THE CONFIGURATION.

Backup Vaults are storage containers within an online disk where your backup data resides for a single computer.  A Backup Vault allows for block-level data de-duplication within and across multiple files and versions of files as well as compression for all data, which means greatly improved backup speeds and less total data stored.

Please note that Backup Vaults cannot be browsed via the Network Drive feature.  Backup Vaults are designed and optimized specifically for backup and restore procedures only.

Backup Vault Overview:

• A single account can have multiple Online Disks (which may be at different cloud providers), and each Online Disk can have multiple Backup Vaults (multiple computers backing up into the same Online Disk).
  
  
• Only a single computer can backup into a specific Backup Vault – each computer you are backing up needs its own Backup Vault. However, if you replace a computer, you can “take over” the old computer’s Backup Vault to avoid having to re‐upload any data that was already backed up.
  
  
• You can Restore from any Backup Vault, even one being used by a different computer.

 

Creating Automatic Backups

To create a new backup job, start by choosing a name for your backup in the Job Name field.

You also have the option to import previously exported backup job configurations.  A new backup job will be created with the imported settings.

After performing one of the two options above, your new backup job will be added under the Legacy Backup section of your online disk where you can further customize the job's specific settings.
 

Backup Scheduling

Automatic backups can be customized to run automatically at any time you wish.  You also have the option of running any backup job manually from the Jungle Disk Monitor.

• Automatically backup my files every: This option allows you to choose the frequency in which your backup will run.  You have the option to run the backup manually, or at intervals of every 5 minutes, every 15 minutes, hourly, every 6 hours, daily, or weekly.
  
  Selecting the Day or Week options will allow you to select the specific time of day for your backups to run.
  
  
   
• When a scheduled backup time is missed: If your backup time should happened to be missed (i.e. computer is off, internet connection is lost), your backup can either wait until the next scheduled interval is reached.  It can also be configured to run as soon as possible once the condition that prevented it from occurring is no longer present.
   
• Wake my computer from sleep for scheduled backups: If your computer is in a sleep mode, this option will allow the software to wake the computer from sleep mode in order to conduct the scheduled backup.
  
  

What to Backup

The folder selection menu is divided into two sections to allow you to quickly and easily choose or exclude the folders for your backup jobs.

The Common Folders section contains the most common folders that are typically selected for backup.

For a greater level of control, you can select the specific files and folders under the All Folders section.

When a folder is selected, you will have the following options:

• Do not backup this folder
• Backup all the files in this folder
• Backup only certain types of files
• Backup all files, except certain types
• Backup on the files I select in this folder
• Backup files in sub-folders

The state of your selected folders and the files beneath them are indicated by the status of the selection box to the left.

		When a folder is first selected, it will assume that all of the files within it as well as all of the files and folders beneath it will be included for backup.  This status also indicates that as new files and folders are added, those new items will also become part of the backup. A bold box denotes a folder directly selected whereas a thin box indicates that it was included due to a parent folder being selected for backup.
		If a folder has files or folders that are selected beneath it that do not have any filtering enabled (i.e. specific items selected or excluded), it is flagged with a gray check.  New files and folders that are added beneath a folder flagged with a gray check will only be included in future backups if they are under or within a folder with a black check.
		Folders that have items specifically selected or excluded (filters applied) for backup beneath it will be flagged with a check in a grey background. New files and folders that are added beneath a folder flagged with a grey background will only be included in future backups if they are under or within a folder with a black check.
		Folders that are to be excluded completely from a backup are flagged with a red X.  Once a folder is marked for exclusion, you will not be able to select files or folders beneath it until you remove it from its exclusion status.

 

Backup Options

To give you the most control over your automatic backups, these additional options will allow you to customize your specific backup job.

• Backup in-use files (NTFS formatted drives only): For NTFS drives, the Jungle Disk Workgroup Edition has the ability to backup files that are currently in use by the computer.  For Mac and Linux, locked files are already able to be backed up.
   
• Ignore timezone shifts when detecting changed files:  For FAT file systems, this feature will assume files modified within even hour increments from the previous version are due to time zone shifts.  If you enable this option, there is a small potential that a file update may be overlooked if you happen to update a file on increments of exactly one hour from the recent version.  If you do not have a FAT file system, this option should not be selected.
    
• Backup Retention:  Your backup retention settings determine how long files that you delete or update locally are kept in your Backup Vault.  If you uncheck the option, your old backups will be kept indefinitely.
• Backup Reporting
  
  • Backup reporting allows you to view summaries of backup jobs on the web, as well as receive e-mail alerts and RSS updates.