Better Edge Backup v5.2
User Guide
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your changes, just press the [Save Setting] b utton on the toolbar.
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) al lows you to backup files that are exclu sively opened. Without VSS,
you will get the error message “The process cannot access the fi le because another process has locked a portion of
the file” if you are trying to backup a f ile that is exclusively opened (e.g. Outlook PST file).
Please note that VSS is on ly available on Windows XP / 2003 and you must have ad ministrative privileges to start
the VSS service on a computer. Also VSS w ill only work if at least one of your partitions is formatted using NTFS.
If you are running Windows 2003, please install the Windows 2003 V SS hot fix available in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;887827 before runn ing VSS.
If you are running into problems with VSS run ning on Windows X P / 2003, Microsoft's recommendation is to try
re-registering the Volume Shadow Copy Serv ice ag ain. S imply run the script [Better Edge Backup
Home]\bin\RegisterVSS.bat to do so.
For more information, please take a look at the followin g page for a technical introduction to Volume Shadow Copy
Services (VSS):
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/2b0d2457-b7d8-42c3-b6c9-59c145b7765f10 33.mspx
5.11 Encryption Before your files are se nt to the Offsite Backup Server, all your files are compressed and encrypted using your
choice of encryption alg orithm, mode and key. The following table explains all encryption parameters av ailable
within a backup set.
Note:
Encryption settings are set at backup set creation time and cannot be modified. You need to create a new backup
set if you want to change your encryption setting s for a backup set.
Parameter Description
Encryption Algorithm
It defi
nes the encrypting algorithm used to encrypt your backup files. There are