Backup Wizard
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The Backup Wizard will help you back up the following data in Outlook Express:
- E-mail data, News, Hotmail messages
- Accounts
- Rules
- Blocked Senders
- Signatures
- Options
- Address Book
- Internet Explorer Favorites
When the Backup Wizard is launched, you can see OE Backup Tiger / Backup Wizard in the title bar of the program.
The Backup Wizard includes the following step:
- Selecting data for backing up
- Specifying the backup file
- Summary
- Progress
- Error log
Step 1 (Settings)
Selecting data for backing up.
At this step you select data you want to back up.
Identities the tree with the list of all Outlook Express identities.
Outlook Express uses identities so that several users on one computer can use the application. Outlook Express can have one or more identities. The personal data of a separate user is stored in each identity.
The following data from each identity can be backed up:
- E-mail data, News, Hotmail messages
- Accounts
- Rules
- Blocked Senders
- Signatures
- Options
OE Backup Tiger can back up one or several identities in one backup file. For each identity you can select data you want to back up from the above list.
If an identity is empty, it is marked as empty in the tree and you cannot select data from it to for back it up.
If there are no identities in Outlook Express, the tree is unavailable.
Address Book if this option is selected, the Outlook Express Address Book stored in a WAB file will be backed up.
If Outlook Express uses the Microsoft Outlook Address Book, this option is unavailable and you see the following text: You can back up only a Windows Address Book stored in a *.wab file. Now your Outlook Express uses the address book stored in Microsoft Outlook Contact Store. To change the address book, use Outlook Express / Address Book / Tools / Options....
To check which address book is currently used, open the Address Book (Outlook Express / Tools / Address Book) and see its options (Address Book / Tools / Options). If the option Share contact information among Microsoft Outlook and other application. Address book data will be stored in the Microsoft Outlook Contact Store. is selected, the Microsoft Outlook Address Book is used. If the option Do not share information among Microsoft Outlook and other application. Address book data will be stored in an Address Book (*.wab) file. is selected, a WAB file is used.
Favorites if this option is selected, Internet Explorer Favorites will be backed up.
If the location of the Favorites folder is not detected, this option is unavailable.
To move on to the next step, you must select data for backing up.
Navigation:
Back go to the start page.
Next go to step 2.
Cancel close the Backup Wizard
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Step 2 (Backup File)
Specifying the backup file and backup options.
Backup File Name here you should specify the path to the file you want your data to be backed up in.
Use Password select this option if you want to set a password for the backup file. Enter the password into the Password field and repeat it in the Confirm Password field.
If the Use Password option is selected, but no password is specified, the backup file will not be protected with a password.
Create *.bak file if Backup file already exists if this option is selected, a backup copy will be created with the *.bak extension in case the backup file already exists. When a backup copy is created, the .bak extension is added to the file name.
Test after Backup if this option is selected, the backed up information will be verified after the backup process is over.
Navigation:
Back go to step 1.
Next go to step 3.
Cancel close the Backup Wizard
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Step 3 (Summary)
Viewing backup options.
At this step you can check if all backup options are specified correctly and configure what the program should do in case any errors occur during the backup process.
Summary the field where you can see the data selected for backing up and the specified backup file.
Options for handling errors:
Ignore Errors (all messages will be ignored) if this option is selected, all nonfatal errors will be ignored and the backup process will continue. If the option is not selected, the backup process will be finished after the first nonfatal error. If a fatal error occurs, the backup process will be finished independent of the specified options. All errors are logged in the Error log.
Show Error messages if this option is selected, error messages will be displayed. No matter if this option is selected, all errors are logged in the Error log.
Navigation:
Back go to step 2.
Finish start backing up, go to step 4.
Cancel close the Backup Wizard
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Step 4 (Backup)
Backing up.
At this step the selected data is backed up into the backup file.
At the top you can see the stage of the process. It takes the following values:
- Backup backing up is in progress
- Test backup file testing the backup file. The data is tested if the Test after Backup option is selected at step 2.
- Backup complete successfully backing up and testing (if any) is finished without any errors
- Backup complete with errors, see error log backing up and testing (if any) is finished with errors. See the Error log for the occurred errors (step 5).
- Backup canceled backing up is stopped. The user can stop backing up either by clicking the Cancel button or by clicking Abort if a nonfatal error occurs. Besides, the program can stop backing up if a nonfatal error occurs and if both the Ignore Errors (all messages will be ignored) option and the Show Error messages option are not selected at step 4.
- Backup fatal error backing up is stopped due to a fatal error.
Below you can see the Progress bar that shows the progress of backing up and testing.
At the bottom there is a field where you can see the progress of backing up each separate piece of data.
Navigation:
Back go to step 3. Available only if there are any errors.
Error Log show the Error log, go to step 5. Available only if there are any
errors.
Cancel stop the backup process, close the Backup Wizard. Available only when
backing up is in progress.
Close close the Backup Wizard
Help open help
Error Log
Error log. It is displayed if there are any errors occurred during the backup process.
Navigation:
Back go to step 4.
Error Log unavailable.
Close close the Backup Wizard
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