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Frequently Asked Questions - Backup

If my PC or laptop is infected with worms, will ExBoot backup these files too?

Yes. ExBoot backup an identical copy of what is in your PC or laptop.

How long does it take to backup 40GB data with ExBoot?

How long it takes to back up certain size of data through ExBoot must take the following conditions into account:

  1. What is USB interface? The transmission rate of USB 2.0 is 480MB/per second. ExBoot prefers such interface.
  2. What is the nature of data? If the data composition of hard drive within your PC or laptop is so complicated, including database, for example, then it will take longer to backup.
  3. What is the performance of your hard drives both within PC or notebook and ExBoot USB enclosure?
After full backup to ExBoot, I boot via ExBoot hard disk and I am using it as my primary C: drive for my daily operation. Is thi

It is no problem to boot and use exboot just like your internal C: drive. Still, you should be using ExBoot as your backup drive of your internal hard disk.

When I press One Touch Button, why is there no backup by ExBoot?

Before One Touch Button backup, you must conduct full backup first, then One Touch Button can perform incremental backup.

What do I do when I run out of space for Incremental backups?

ExBoot provides two easy ways to manage this.

1) There is a something called a Synthetic Backup policy, which can be set to be manual or automatic. What it does is it automatically merges first then deletes the oldest incremental in sequence until there is enough space to do a new incremental backup.

2) You can set up Cyclic Full Backup, which essentially performs a full backup every X number of days specified. Each time a new full back is done, all previous incrementals are deleted because the new full backup is newer then all previous incrementals. Hence the older incrementals cannot be used anymore.


Is it better for me to close programs when backup?

Yes, especially for programs like Outlook, Skype, and etc. It is a good practice to close programs during backup. But it is not necessary since ExBoot supports open file manager. This applies if you are running Windows XP. Data in some of these programs may not be written to the disk when its running. ExBoot only backups the actually written data on disk and not whats in Ram.