## Backup Scenarios

### Backing up a hard disk or partition to a network drive

To back up an entire hard disk or a separate partition and then place the resulted image to a network share, please do the following:

1. Click the Simple Backup item of the Wizards menu.

| There are other ways to start up this function, please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject.

2. On the Wizard's Welcome page, click the Next button.

3. On the next page, mark the appropriate option opposite a hard disk’s name or a partition’s name depending on the chosen task.

4. Map a network disk to place your backup image to:

- Call the Map Network Drive dialog by clicking the appropriate button;

- Click the standard browse button [...] to browse for the required network share or manually enter a path to it;

- Define a letter from the pull-down list of available drive letters;

- Mark the checkbox to make this connection permanent. Otherwise it will only be available for the current Windows session;

- Click the Connect as user button at the foot of the dialog page to specify a user name and password to access the selected network share if necessary.

5. Edit the archive name if necessary.

| Please take into account values of the parameters Estimated archive size and Space available on backup destination - if the archive size exceeds the available space, another network drive needs to be selected.

6. Add comments to your backup describing its contents.

7. On the Backup Summary page review all parameters of the operation and modify them if necessary. Click the Next button to start the backup process.

| This operation can also be accomplished with our recovery media.

### Backing up a dual boot Mac to an external USB drive

To back up a dual boot Mac (Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista/7) and then place the resulted image to an external USB drive, please do the following:

1. Start up the computer from our Linux/DOS recovery media.

| Recovery Media Builder can help you prepare our recovery environment either on a CD/DVD disc or a thumb drive. To automatically boot from the recovery media please make sure the on-board BIOS is set up to boot from CD/USB first.

2. Connect an external USB drive to the computer.

3. Restart the computer. It will be automatically started up into the Linux recovery environment (Normal Mode), since it’s the only mode that provides support for Mac computers.

4. In the Linux launch menu select Partition Manager.

5. Launch the Backup Wizard by selecting in the Main Menu of the program: Wizards > Backup Wizard.

6. On the Wizard's Welcome page, click the Next button.

7. On the What to back up page, select your Mac hard disk.

8. On the Backup Destination page, select the Save data to any local drive or a network share option.

9. Select an external USB drive as a backup destination.

10. Edit the archive name if necessary.

| Please take into account values of the parameters Estimated archive size and Space available on backup destination - if the archive size exceeds the available space, another drive needs to be selected.

11. Add comments to your backup describing its contents.

12. On the Backup Summary page review all parameters of the operation and modify them if necessary. Click the Next button to start the backup process.

| This operation can also be accomplished under Windows.