- How-To Booklet
- 1. How to protect your computer from malware and hackers
- 2. How to protect your information from physical threats
- 3. How to create and maintain secure passwords
- 4. How to protect the sensitive files on your computer
- 5. How to recover from information loss
- 6. How to destroy sensitive information
- 7. How to keep your Internet communication private
- 8. How to remain anonymous and bypass censorship on the Internet
- Glossary
- Hands-On Guides
- Avast - anti-virus
- Spybot - anti-spyware
- Comodo - firewall
- KeePass - secure password storage
- TrueCrypt - secure file storage
- Cobian - backup
- Undelete Plus - file recovery
- Eraser - secure file removal
- CCleaner - temporary file removal
- Riseup - secure email service
- Pidgin + OTR - secure instant messaging
- VaultletSuite - secure mail client
- Thunderbird + Enigmail - secure mail client
- Firefox - Web browser
- Tor - anonymity and circumvention
- portable security
Cobian Backup
Submitted by genner on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 00:55.
Cobian Backup is used for creating archives of your digital files. They can be stored on your computer, office network, removable devices or Internet servers.
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Homepage www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Computer Requirements
Version used in this guide
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Installing Cobian
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License
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Freeware
Required Reading
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How-to Booklet chapter 5. How to recover from information loss
Level: 1: Beginner, 2: Average, 3: Intermediate, 4: Experienced, 5: Advanced
Time required to start using this tool: 30 minutes
What you will get in return:
- The ability to back up all documents, files and folders
- The ability to compress and decompress your backup files
- The ability to encrypt and decrypt your archived files
1.1 Things you should know about this tool before you start
Cobian Backup is used to make a backup, or archive, of your files and directories. Backups can be stored in other directories or drives on your computer, other computers on the office network or on removable devices (CDs, DVDs and USB memory sticks). You can schedule when files and directories are to be backed up. The program can reside in the background on your system (that is, in the system tray), checking your schedule and executing the backup process when necessary. Cobian Backup can also compress and encrypt files as it creates backup copies.
1.2 Installation Note
During the installation process, you will be prompted to choose between several options. It is recommended that you check the As a service option to ensure that the program is running at all times (in the background) and ensure that your backups will occur as scheduled.
Figure 1: The Cobian Backup 8 - Setup screen