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Copyright (c) 2009 Seagate Technology LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1.
Introduction
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1.1
What is Seagate BlackArmor
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Backup?
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1.2
Advantages
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1.3
System requirements and supported media
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1.3.1
Minimum system requirements
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1.3.2 Supported storage media
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1.3.3
Supported operating systems
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1.3.4
Supported file systems
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1.4
License policy
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1.5
Technical support
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Chapter 2.
Seagate BlackArmor Backup installation and startup
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2.1
Installing Seagate BlackArmor Backup
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2.1.1
Installing Seagate BlackArmor Backup
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2.2
Extracting Seagate BlackArmor Backup
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2.3
Running Seagate BlackArmor Backup
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2.4
Removing Seagate BlackArmor Backup
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Chapter 3.
General information
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3.1
The difference between file archives and disk/partition images
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3.2
Full, incremental and differential backups
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3.3
BlackArmor Backup Secure Zone
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3.4
Viewing disk and partition information
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3.5
Try&Decide
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3.6
BlackArmor DriveCleanser, File Shredder, and System Clean-up
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3.7
Support for Zip format
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Chapter 4.
Getting to know Seagate BlackArmor Backup
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4.1
BlackArmor One-Click Protection
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4.2
Program workspace
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Chapter 5.
Creating backup archives
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5.1
Selecting what data to back up
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5.2
Performing backup
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5.2.1
Selecting data for backup
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5.2.2
Selecting the target archive location
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5.2.3
Scheduling
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5.2.4
Backup method
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5.2.5
Source files exclusion
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5.2.6
Selecting the backup options
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5.2.7
Setting automatic consolidation
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5.2.8
Providing a comment
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5.2.9
The operation summary and the backup process
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5.3
Fine-tuning your backups
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5.3.1
Archive protection
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5.3.2
Source files exclusion
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5.3.3
Pre/post commands
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5.3.4
Compression level
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5.3.5
Backup performance
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5.3.6
Archive splitting
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