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.

The Legacy Backup feature allows you to keep files and folders on your local machine backed up automatically off-site to your Jungle Disk. If you mainly want to use your online storage space for backup, the Legacy Backup feature makes it easy and eliminates the need to copy files to your mapped drive manually on a regular basis.

Once backed up with Legacy Backup, your files will also be accessible via the mapped drive and you can always easily open or copy backed up files from your mapped drive back to your local machine.

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.
  
  
   
• Stop the backup if it runs longer than: To prevent backups from running for extended periods of time, when enabled, this option allows you to set a maximum run time for your backups.
   
• 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.

Backup Options

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

• Remove locally deleted files from my remote backup: With this option enabled, files that are deleted from your computer are also deleted from Jungle Disk, however, the file will still be maintained in the Previous Versions archive.
   
• Backup in-use files (NTFS formatted drives only): For NTFS drives, the Jungle Disk Desktop 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.
    
• Previous Versions
  • Use the online disk previous version settings for this backup job:  All settings as configured in the Previous Versions section will apply to this specific backup.
     
  • Customize the previous version settings for this backup job:
    
    • Keep previous versions of changed files: Copies of the previous versions of files are maintainted when you modify the file or upload a new file with the same name.
       
    • Keep previous versions of deleted files: Copies of files that are deleted either manually or during backup cleanup are still maintained.
       
    • Don't keep previous versions for files over: Files larger than the specified size will not be archived when modified or deleted.
       
    • Keep at most: Allows you to select a maximum number of versions to keep regardless of the file's age.
      
• 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.