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All rights reserved. http://www.farstone.com/home/ensite/support/support.shtml -2- Contents CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................- 6 1-1 INTRODUCTION TO RESTOREIT PRO............................................................................................................................... - 6 1-2 FEATURES .......................................................................................................................................................................... - 6 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLATION ..........................................................................................................................................- 9 2-1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS .................................................................................................................................................. - 9 2-2 PRE-INSTALLATION CHECK.............................................................................................................................................. - 9 2-3 INSTALLING RESTOREIT PRO.......................................................................................................................................... - 9 2-4 MUTI-BOOTING WINDOWS............................................................................................................................................ - 11 CHAPTER 3 RESTOREIT PRO MANAGER IN WINDOWS............................................................................. - 13 3-1 LAUNCHING RESTOREIT PRO IN WINDOWS ................................................................................................................ - 13 3-2 USING RESTOREIT PRO QUICK START......................................................................................................................... - 13 3-2.1 Quick Backup..................................................................................................................................................... - 14 3-2.2 Quick Restore .................................................................................................................................................... - 14 3-2.3 File-level Restore ............................................................................................................................................. - 14 3-3 SYSTEM RESTORE........................................................................................................................................................... - 15 3-3.1 Restoring to an Incremetal Backup Point ............................................................................................... - 15 3-3.2 Restoring from a Complete Backup Point............................................................................................... - 16 3-4 SYSTEM BACKUP............................................................................................................................................................. - 19 3-4.2 Creating an Incremental Backup Point .................................................................................................... - 19 3-4.2 Creating a Complete Backup Point............................................................................................................ - 20 3-4.3 Cloning Hard drives......................................................................................................................................... - 21 3-4.4 Creating a Hard drive Image....................................................................................................................... - 21 3-4.5 Cloning Partitions............................................................................................................................................. - 22 3-5 MANAGING BACKUP POINTS.......................................................................................................................................... - 23 3-5.1 Introduction to Various Backup Points..................................................................................................... - 23 3-5.2 Viewing Backup Point Properties................................................................................................................ - 23 3-5.3 Deleting a Backup Point ................................................................................................................................ - 24 3-5.4 Locking & Unlocking a Complete Backup Point .................................................................................... - 25 3-5.5 Renaming a Backup Point ............................................................................................................................. - 25 3-5.6 Exporting an Internal Complete Backup Point as an External Backup........................................ - 25 3-6 FILE-LEVEL BACKUP AND RESTORE .............................................................................................................................. - 25 3-6.1 How to Restore a Specific File..................................................................................................................... - 25 3-6.2 How to back up Specific Files or Folders................................................................................................. - 26 3-7 ADVANCED FUNCTIONS OF RESTOREIT PRO............................................................................................................... - 26 3-7.1 Creating and Using a Recovery CD/DVD................................................................................................. - 26 Creating a Recovery CD/DVD ..................................................................................................................................................- 26 Using a Recovery CD/DVD to Restore Your Computer ...................................................................................................- 27 - 3-7.2 Creating and Using a Rescue Disc............................................................................................................. - 27 Function of RestoreIT Pro Rescue Disc.................................................................................................................................- 27 Creating an RestoreIT Pro Rescue Disc................................................................................................................................- 27 How to Use Your RestoreIT Pro Rescue Disc ......................................................................................................................- 27 - 3-7.3 How to Retrieve Individual Files from an External Complete Backup.......................................... - 28 3-8 RESTOREIT PRO SETTINGS ........................................................................................................................................... - 29 General Settings ...........................................................................................................................................................................- 29 RestoreIT Pro Scheduler ............................................................................................................................................................- 30 File Backup Settings....................................................................................................................................................................- 32 - 3-9 UPDATING YOUR PRODUCT............................................................................................................................................ - 33 3-10 GETTING ASSISTANCE.................................................................................................................................................. - 33 3-11 EXITING RESTOREIT PRO MANAGER ......................................................................................................................... - 34 - CHAPTER 4 RESTOREIT PRO MANAGER IN PRE-OS MODE ..................................................................... - 36 - 4-1 ACTIVATING THE RESTOREIT PRO MANAGER .............................................................................................................. - 36 4-2 RESTOREIT PRO MANAGER IN PRE-OS MODE............................................................................................................ - 36 Incremental Backup Points....................................................................................................................................... - 37 Complete Backup Points............................................................................................................................................ - 37 RestoreIT Pro Settings ............................................................................................................................................... - 38 Uninstalling RestoreIT Pro ........................................................................................................................................ - 39 Exiting RestoreIT Pro.................................................................................................................................................. - 39 CHAPTER 5 REMOVING RESTOREIT PRO............................................................................................................ - 41 5-1 REMOVING RESTOREIT PRO.......................................................................................................................................... - 41 CHAPTER 6 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS .................................................................................................. - 43 CHAPTER 7 SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT ................................................................................................. - 53 3-2.7 Restoring from a Recovery CD/DVD.................................................................................................................. -4- Chapter 1 Introduction Introduction Instantly recover from system crashes, virus attacks or accidental data deletion. Chapter 1 1-1 Introduction to RestoreIT Pro RestoreIT Pro is an innovative real-time system restoration utility. Once installed, RestoreIT Pro continually monitors and keeps a complete record of all activities on the hard drive. RestoreIT Pro lets you recover lost data after a system crash, virus attack, faulty software installation, accidental file deletion or unintentional formatting of the hard drive. In merely a few minutes, if not seconds, all of the contents of your hard drive can be restored back to a point in time when your computer was functioning properly. RestoreIT Pro is different from general-purpose backup software. RestoreIT Pro uses a unique real-time incremental backup technology, taking up only 5 to 10 percent of the hard drive space. RestoreIT Pro can be set to automatically back up your computer hourly, daily, or at each system startup. 1-2 Features · Flexible System Backup You can create Incremental Backup Points, a Complete Backup Point for your entire system, or a hard drive image which includes the hidden RestoreIT Pro partition. · More choice to save the image file RestoreIT Pro allows you to save each Complete Backup Point or disk image file to a hard drive, network share, removable storage media or CD/DVD discs. · Retrieve an Individual file from image RestoreIT Pro allows you to pick out an individual file or folder from a com ...