How to do a basic backup with Comodo software.

1. Comodo Online Backup &
Restore Software

2. What is Comodo?
COMODO Backup is free backup software that can be configured to
automatically back up your important data, from an entire drive down to
individual files.
COMODO Backup can even isolate things like desktop email
accounts and browser data for easy back up!
Also an advanced but easy to use restore function is included
with COMODO Backup, as well as compression and encryption support.

3. Features
Supported Backup Methods:
 Full backup, differential backup, incremental backup, as well as synchronized backup.
Supported Backup Sources:
 Can backup entire physical harddrives, individual partitions (even hidden
ones), partition tables, individual folders and files of your choosing, registry keys
and registry values, individual email accounts, instant messaging conversations, or
browser data.
Supported Backup Destinations:
 local drive, optical media like a CD/DVD/BD disc, network folder, external drive, FTP
server, or sent to a recipient over email.
 You can also back up to the cloud via COMODO's online backup add-on service.
 Backups can be saved to these destinations using the popular ZIP or ISO format, as well
as COMODO's proprietary CBU format.

4. In order to create copies of your data you have to create one or more
backup jobs as backup profiles. During the creation of a backup job
you can choose which type of data you wish to backup (source), how
to backup (backup settings), where you want your backed up files to
be stored (destination) and when to backup (schedule the job).

5. This tutorial is only going to cover how to back up folders and files
to an external harddrive or flash drive. Comodo has many other
options as well like sending it to cloud storage, email, or even a FTP
server.
After installing Comodo your first step after opening
the program is to choose “Backup” either at the “Backup
Now” towards the middle right of the dashboard or on
the left side of the dashboard.

6. In this next step you are going to choose “Files and
Folders” in the dashboard if it is not already selected.

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Next choose “Add Folder or File”(1) which ever you are backing up and
a window pops up “Browse For Folder”.
Next choose the folders or files you want to back up. In my
example my folder was under “Libraries”(2), “Shared
Projects”(3), “Shared Projects”(4).

8. After clicking ok in the “Browse For Folder” window the dashboard
shows the path(1) to what you are backing up on the right side
under “Source items”. Click “Next” at the bottom right of the
dashboard to bring you to the next window.
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Next you will need to choose your destination. The options are the
tabs at the top which include their cloud storage, the computer or
external drives, cd/dvd, a network, FTP server or even email. For this
example I chose an external drive.
First choose “My Computer”(1). Next click the “Up”(2) box under email
until it shows the drive letters where your “External Drive”(3) is. I had
to click it twice before my drive letter showed up which is “E” in this
example.

10. After clicking on the appropriate drive letter it will open up
and show its contents. As you can see there are some files and
folders in my external drive. Next you need to choose where
exactly you want your backup info to go. In this example
there is a folder called “backup” where the info needs to go. So
I will double click on the “backup” folder.

11. After opening the folder where I want the backup to go you
can see I have previously backed up another folder. If you look
at the destination path shown in the “backup name”(1) box it
includes “_inc_files.cbu” in the path namewhich means it is
including all files inside that folder are being backed up. The
“.cbu” is the format its saved in.
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At this point you have two options. Option 1 you can click
“backup now” and it will backup your info to the destination
you chose. Afterwards exit the program and you are done.
Option 2 by clicking on the “Next” button it takes you to an
options menu.

13. Now I’m not going to go over all the options but there was a
couple I thought were good ones to know right now. First is the
“Password Protection” option.

14. The “Password Protection” option I thought was a good idea
because if you have sensitive data you can protect it by
encrypting it and you can even choose what type of
encryption like AES, DES, blowfish and other. After you put in
your info you then click “backup now” and can be finished.
But there is one other option I’d like to show you.

15. The “Before and After Tasks” I found was another nice option. You
can run tasks before or after if need be but what I liked was the
fact you can scan for “malware and junk” before the back up, have
it verify the creation of your backup, and even shutdown your
computer when its finished. The last option is nice for the fact if
it’s the end of the day and you don’t want to wait for the back up,
check this option and you can leave and not worry about it.

16. If you don’t choose “shutdown after backup is complete” click
the “backup now” button at the bottom right this screen pops
up showing the progress of it and when its complete.

17. This concludes my tutorial on the basic backup
using the comodo program. There are many
more options in the program as well as using it
to restore your backup. I hope that this gives
you a little glimpse of what you can do with this
program and the basic way to do a backup.
Thank You