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IMPORTANT Recommendations
- Attach your computer to a wired UT Campus Network before starting a first run backup and leave it attached until the backup process completes.
- Depending on the size of your backup set this may take several hours or longer.
- Select only the files you wish to be backed up
- For PC files are commonly located on your "Desktop" or in the "My Documents" folder.
- For Mac files are most commonly located on your "Desktop" or in the "Documents" folder.
Step 1 - Launch UTBackup and Create your Account
- locate and launch the installed UTBackup client by double clicking the house icon as indicated in wiki article Installing UTBackup - Mac
If you have previously created a UTBackup account from another computer, select the "Existing Account" radio button and click sign in.
- The First name and Last name fields can be left blank.
- Enter your UT EID in the Username field then enter your UT EID password in the last two fields and click Create Account
Step 2 - Selecting which files and folders to Back Up
For PC:
- Open the UTBackup Crash Plan client, log in with your UT EID and password
- Select the Backup tab
- Navigate to the Files to Back Up section and click Change... to open the window for selecting files and folders.
- In the Change File Selection window the computer's hard drive will be listed, click the triangle to the left of the C:/ and expand the file structure.
NOTE: Clicking the box to the left of C:/ will back up the full contents of this drive and is not recommended.
- To back up your User Profile folder, Click the triangle to the left of Users and expand the contents.
- Locate your User folder which will likely be your UT EID.
- Clicking the box to the left of your User folder will select the entire contents of that folder for backup.
- Alternately select which of the listed folders are preferred for backup.
- For example, you may want to only back up your Documents folder. This is accomplished by specifically clicking the box to the left of the Documents folder.
- If you were to click the triangle to the left of Documents you would see that the entire contents of this folder is selected for back up.
- Certain files or folders from selected directories may also be excluded from th4e backup.
- For instance if you want to exclude My Music, My Pictures, and My Videos deselect them by clearing the check mark to the left of each of these folders.
- After file and folder selections are complete, click Save.
- The files and folders you chose to back up will show up listed under Files to Back Up.
- Click the "Start Backup" button to begin.
Please note that you may see an indication of time left for backup.
* The back up will continue even if you close the application.
* If your computer goes to sleep, the back up will continue when it wakes up.
To maximize backup efficiency the initial seeding of a backup set should be allowed to complete while the computer is attached to a wired UT Campus Network.
For Mac:
- Open the UTBackup Crash Plan client, log in with your UT EID and password
- Select the Backup tab
- Navigate to the Files to Back Up section and click Change... to open the window for selecting files and folders.
- In the Change File Selection window the Mac's hard drive will be listed, click the triangle to the left of the hard drive icon and expand the file structure.
NOTE: Clicking the box to the left of the hard drive icon will back up the full contents of this drive and is not recommended.
- To back up your User Profile folder, click the triangle to the left of Users and expand the contents.
- Locate your User home folder, this folder may be named with your UT EID or by another name if you are logging in with a local account.
- Clicking the box to the left of your User folder will select the entire contents of that folder for backup.
- Clicking the arrow next to your User folder will expand the list of sub-folders which allows cafeteria style selection of which folders are to be backed up.
- For example, you may want to only back up your Documents folder. This is accomplished by specifically clicking the box to the left of the Documents folder.
- If you were to click the triangle to the left of Documents you would see that the entire contents of this folder is selected for back up.
- Certain files or folders from selected directories may also be excluded from the backup by clearing the check mark to the left of each of those folders.
- After file and folder selections are complete, click Save.
- The files and folders you chose to back up will show up listed under Files to Back Up.
- Click the "Start Backup" button to begin..
Please note that you may see an indication of time left for backup.
* The back up will continue even if you close the application.
* If your computer goes to sleep, the back up will continue when it wakes up.
To maximize backup efficiency the initial seeding of a backup set should be allowed to complete while the computer is attached to a wired UT Campus Network.
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