Chapter 8: Reference

Here you find everything on the main window. Click your mouse upon any object and you will be presented an explanation.



All controls in up-down-sequence:


Button 'Define New Server':

Invokes the window for defining a (new) backup-server. If you want to modify an existing server definition, you must invoke the context-menu over that entry and select 'Edit Server-Definition'.

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Chckbox 'Save Server':

Your server-definition is effective immediatly. But if this checkbox is not marked, then the server-definitions that you made in the current run are not preserved for future runs.

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List of 'FTP-Servers':

To edit an existing server-definition, you must invoke the context-menu over that entry and select 'Edit Server-Definition'.

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Checkbox 'Keep Queue-File':

The Queue-File is the file where all files to be backup'd during a day are listed. Normally this Queue-File is deleted after the Backup Demon/2 terminates. If for some reasons you want to keep the Queue-File you must check this option.

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Checkbox 'Test (No 'Archive'-reset)':

If this option is set then the archive-flags of the files are not reset after they have been backup'd. This option can be useful if you intend to upload your backup-data twice, e.g. the first time to one server and the 2nd time to another. Before the 2nd run you would un-mark the 'test'-option again, so that finally all files are set to 'archived'.

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Checkbox 'Force Stop':

This option is a kind of final rescue, i.e. if after pushing the 'Stop'-button the processes do not come to an end you can force it by setting this opton 'on'. For more info see
'Stop'-Button.

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Display of current Activities:

In this area you can see what is currently going on within the Backup Demon/2. The Little Demon indicates that the main processing has been started (i.e. the Collection- and the Upload-threads are present). This is equivalent to the 'Go'-button becoming red.
The area right from the Demon graphic contains two status-indicators: one for the Collection-thread and one for the Upload-thread. The upper one indicates that the thread is 'on' (present) while the lower one shows if the thread is active or idle.

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Display 'Currently selected Server':

If you connect to a Backup-Server then this field becomes red and the URL of that server is shown.

Being red for this field means: there is an active connection to that server.

If your selected backup-server is a local device then the red color has no meaning.

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Display 'HTTP-Dir':

The value for 'HTTP-dir' of the currently selected server is displayed here.
For more details see
'Define New Server'-Button.

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Display 'Remote Path':

The value for 'Remote Path' of the currently selected server is displayed here.
For more details see
'Define New Server'-Button.

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Display 'Total Bkp.Size':

The amount of bytes to be uploaded is displayed here.

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Display 'Current File':

The file currently being uploaded is displayed here.

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Anzeigefeld '':

The number of entries in the files-list is displayed here.

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Button 'Profile':

Push-button to invoke the dialogue for the creation of your Backup-Profile. For more details see
'Setting up your demon.

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Button 'Go':

By pushing this button the processes of collecting and uploading files to the backup-server is started. If 'Preview' is checked then no upload takes place but only a list of files that are upload-candidates is produced. If 'Preview' is not checked then the 'Go'-button will actually start these threads: The 'Go'-button can have one of three possible colors:

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Checkbox 'Preview':

If set 'on' (checked) the pushing the 'Go'-button will not start normal processing but will collect a list of upload-candidates (i.e. files that are to be uploaded).

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Button 'Show Queue':

After processing has started (non-preview) you can wait a while and then push this button to display the current queue-file. The queue-file shows which files are to be uploaded and what is the current status of the file: Is it '-' (still waiting for upload) or 'ok' (successfully been uploaded) or something else such like 'Err-x'.

If it is 'Err-x' then you should check if the file is really not uploaded to the server. You do this by invoking the
'Query'-function.

If the file is not on the server, then you must check the following questions: If you can exclude all the possible causes please send an error report to Backup-Demon/2-TechSupport schreiben.

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Button 'Stop':

This button will stop processing of the Collection- and the Upload-processes (threads). You should un-mark the 'Disconnect'-checkbox if you plan to invoke the
Query-function soon after (so you need not re-connect which sometimes costs time).

After pushing the 'Stop'-button it will take some time for the processes to actually terminate. Both processes (Collection- and Upload-) try to finish their current unit of work before they follow the stop-request.



If you decide to force stop the processing then you have two options: Both alternatives are not recommended, however it should do no harm to your backup'd data.

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Button 'Query':

Invoking the 'Query'-window requires that no upload processing is active, that means you first have to push the 'Stop'-button and wait for the upload to terminate (this is not the case if the Backup-Server is a local device).

More about the 'Query'-function see
Chapter 5: View and Restore Backup-Data.

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Button 'Exit':

Terminates all active processes and exits the program without prompt. Remember that if the 'Keep Queue-File' is un-marked (which is the default) then the Queue-File is deleted at program exit.

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List-Object 'Files':

In this list you find either
The list may be sorted: In order to perform a sort you must doubleclick on the appropriate column header:

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Liste 'Status-Log':

This is the 'Status-Log' window. You should keep an eye on this small window because The Backup Demon/2 writes messages if neccessary here into. The messages may be error-messages or merely notes or hints.

If a messages is longer than can be displayed then you must doubleclick upon the messages to bring it up in full length.

After program termination the messages are save in the file named 'BkpDemon.log' (in the log-directory).

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Main-Menu 'File':

The 'File'-menu offers these functions:

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Main-Menu 'Settings':

The 'Settings'-menu-item invokes the Settings-dialogue
Settings. Note that the Settings deal with system-related parameters as opposed to the 'Profile' and 'Define Server' dialogues.

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Main-Menu 'System':

The 'System'-menu offers these functions:

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