Tri-Edre Back in Time - 2 User Handbook

Back-In-Time 2

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USER HANDBOOK

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! Licensing and Copyright Agreement

This software is Copyright ©2008-2010 TED and ©TRI-EDRE.

Except as permitted under copyright law, no part of the program or this manual may be reproduced or distributed
in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of TRI-EDRE.

The program, and this manual, are licensed only for individual use on a single computer. You are permitted by law to
make working copies of the software program, solely for your own use. No copy (original or working) may be used
while any other copy is in use.

If you ever sell, lend, or give away the original copy of this Software program, all working copies must also be sold,
lent, or given to the same person, or destroyed.

Limited Warranty

TRI-EDRE warrants to you that the Software will perform substantially in accordance with the Documentation for the
ninety (90) day period following the date of delivery of the Software to you. If the Software fails to meet the
specications of the warranty set forth above, TRI-EDRE liability and your exclusive remedy will be replacement of
the CD or a reasonable effort to make the product meet the above warranty specication. Except for the above
express limited warranties, TRI-EDRE makes and you receive no warranties or guarantees, express, implied, statutory
or in any communication with you, and specically disclaims any implied warranty of non infringement,
merchantability or tness for a particular purpose. TRI-EDRE does not warrant that the operation of the program will
be uninterrupted or error free.

In no event will TRI-EDRE be liable for any loss of use, loss of prots, interruption of business, or indirect, special,
incidental or consequential damages of any kind, however caused and under any head of liability, arising out of use
of or in connection with the software.

Trademarks

Back-In-Time is a trademark of TRI-EDRE.

All other products are trademarks of their respective companies.

©TRI-EDRE. All Rights Reserved.

TRI-EDRE

22 Place de l’Eglise - BP 111

83510 LORGUES (FRANCE)

Phone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

Web site: www.tri-edre.fr • www.tri-edre.com

Email address: [e-mail] • [e-mail]

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Table of contents

..........................................................................................................................................Introduction 5

...................................................................................................................................................................Welcome! 5

....................................................................................................................................Thank you for registering 5

...........................................................................................................................Latest version of the software 5

.............................................................................................................................................Software Installation 5

...........................................................................................................................................Uninstalling Software 5

..........................................................................................................................Launch and Register Software 5

...............................................................................................................................................................Trial version 6

...................................................................................................................................................Technical support 6

.....................................................................................................................................................................Contacts 6

.......................................................................................................................................................Basics 7

........................................................................................................................................Time Machine Backups 7

...........................................................................................................................................Back-In-Time Purpose 7

............................................................................................................................................Preferences 8

......................................................................................................................................................................Updates 8

..........................................................................................................Automatic Time Machine deactivation 8

...................................................................................................................................................Automatic Mount 8

...........................................................................................................................Time Machine Data to display 8

.......................................................................................................................................Main Window 9

.............................................................................................................................................Time Machine Status 9

...........................................................................................................................Available Time Machine Disks 9

..........................................................................................................................Available Time Machine Data 10

..........................................................................................................................................Information Window 11

....................................................................................Time Machine data related to a particular folder 12

...................................................................................................................Restore data from Time Machine 12

......................................................................................................................Back-In-Time Browser 13

......................................................................................................Show and Hide the information drawer 13

.....................................................................................................................Linking a disk to other backups 13

....................................................................................................................................Combine multiple disks 14

..................................................................................................................................................................Example 14

.........................................................................................................................................The Backup Selection 15

..............................................................................................................................................The list of contents 16

.......................................................................................................................Refresh the contents of the list 17

....................................................................................................................................................................Preview 17

...........................................................................................................................................Information window 17

..........................................................................................................................Contents Comparison Dialog 17

....................................................................................................................................................Display Options 18

..................................................................................................................................Drag and drop to restore 18

.............................................................................................................................................................Restoration 18

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.............................................................Space occupied on the Time Machine backup disk 19

...............................................................................................Disk occupation by the Time Machine data 19

.......................................................................................................................................Size of a le or a folder 19

...............................................................................................Occupied space displayed by Back-In-Time 19

................................................................................................................................................Practical Example 21

..............................................................................................Example of optimizing the occupied space 21

..............................................................................................................................Browser Features 23

.................................................................................................................................................Open a subfolder 23

..........................................................................................................................................Drag and Drop Copy 24

..............................................................................................................................Open with a drag and drop 24

...............................................................................................................Back-In-Time Restoration 25

.................................................................................................................................................What is restored? 25

..................................................................................................................................The Destination Location 26

............................................................................................................................................Restoration Options 26

............................................................................................................Preview the result of the restoration 26

...................................................................................................................................Other Features 27

......................................................................................................................................List of items backed up 27

................................................................................................................................Delete Time Machine data 28

......................................................................................................................................................F.A.Q 30

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Introduction

Welcome!

Thank you for your condence in purchasing our software Back-In-Time 2! We are certain that you will nd Back-In­Time 2 to be the essential companion to Time Machine for Macintosh. Back-In-Time 2 allows you to:

• Restore your backups easily.

• Copy and restore Time Machine data to anywhere on your Mac using drag and drop, or with the build-in
restore function of Back-In-Time.

• Copy data from Time Machine backups made on other Macs or drives.

Thank you for registering

Thank you for registering. You can receive free technical support and be informed of updates and developments of
this product, and all the innovations of our production.

If you purchased our software on TRI-EDRE’s web store (download purchase), you are automatically registered, and
you do not need to register again.

If you purchased our software from a reseller or within a bundle, please use the registration page on our web site

http://www.tri-edre.com.

Latest version of the software

Check our website http://www.tri-edre.com to verify that you have the latest version of this software. If this is not
the case, you may download the latest version which allows you to use your serial number.

Note: serial numbers are compatible with all versions of the same main version number: a serial number for version 2.0
can be used with versions 2.1, 2.2, etc.

Note: Back-In-Time can check the latest available version and download it. See Preferences.

Software Installation

On the CD-ROM that came with this software, or in the disk image you downloaded, the application is «Back-In-Time
2». Drag this application in the Applications folder on your startup disk.

Uninstalling Software

To completely uninstall Back-In-Time 2, drag the application Back-In-Time 2 to the Trash, and delete the ~/Library/
Application Support/Back-In-Time 2 folder.

Launch and Register Software

Double-click the application icon to launch it. At rst launch, the application will ask you to enter the Administrator
password (the one you use for each update of the system or applications). Then, a dialog asks you to enter your
serial number (found on a sticker on the CD sleeve, or provided by e-mail or mail).

This serial number, that is personal, actives all the features of your software.

Keep your serial number in case you need to access technical support or updates.

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Trial version

At each launch, you will be asked for a serial number if your version is not registered. To use Back-In-Time in demo
mode, wait until the demo button is active. The demo version is fully useable, but is limited to copying and restoring
the last Time Machine backup.

You can enter the serial number at any time by selecting About Back-In-Time 2 from the Back-In-Time menu.

Technical support

Above all, use this guide and our website to check all information on this product and its use. If you do not nd the
answer to your questions, please contact our technical support by e-mail (see contact information below).

Please have your serial number, your version number, and characteristics of your system ready before initiating
contact.

Contacts

If you have comments about this program, problems or issues that are not answered in this manual or on our
website - or if you are interested in site licenses of software - please contact TRI-EDRE (specifying the version and
serial number of your copy):

by e-mail address:

[e-mail]

[e-mail]

by phone or fax:

Phone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

by mail:

TRI-EDRE

22 Place de l’Eglise

BP 111

83510 Lorgues

France

Web site:

http://www.tri-edre.fr

http://www.tri-edre.com

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Basics

Time Machine Backups

Time Machine is the backup function integrated in the Mac OS X System. It automatically performs a copy of your
disks to an internal or external drive or network - for example, on a Time Capsule or AirPort.

Time Machine provides a restoration function, but has limited options.

Back-In-Time Purpose

Back-In-Time uses your existing Time Machine data, but greatly enhances your restoration capabilities.

Back-In-Time is designed to restore, copy and recover data backed up by Time Machine. Back-In-Time analyzes the
contents of Time Machine data and offers options that are not available with Time Machine:

• Restoration or copy by drag and drop to their original location, or any other place of your Mac.

• A view of your backups and the available data: display the number of different versions available for each
document, the elements that have been deleted but Time Machine has preserved, etc..

• A Powerful browsing of the backups of your data, both through disk space and time.

• The ability to retrieve data that Time Machine has created on other drives or other Macs.

• The ability to display a list of all the elements that have been saved during a Time Machine backup.

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And much more...

In addition, Back-In-Time brings new features to help you best manage the Time Machine data, such as the ability to
know the space actually occupied on the Time Machine disk by the backups of the different versions of a document,
a le or an application.

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Preferences

Select Preferences in the Back-In-Time menu.

Updates

You can set how Back-In-Time handles updates.

Automatic Time Machine deactivation

It is recommended to disable Time Machine if you want to modify and restore data from Time Machine backups.
Check this option if you want Time Machine to be automatically disabled when you run Back-In-Time.

Note: Time Machine will automatically be reactivated when you leave Back-In-Time.

Automatic Mount

If your Time Machine disk is not mounted (for example if you use Time Capsule), make an alias of this disk and it will
be mounted automatically when you launch Back-In-Time.

Note: It will be ejected automatically when Back-In-Time quits.

Time Machine Data to display

Back-In-Time automatically displays the list of Time Machine data present on the disk used for Time Machine
backups. You can choose to display only certain data.

The latest les and disks viewed are stored in the list of recent items. This list is partially displayed (you can choose
the number of items to display), and all these items are also accessible through a pop-up menu.

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Main Window

The main window is displayed when you launch Back-In-Time.

It has on the left an area of information and access to Time Machine backups, and on the right a navigation area to
browse inside these backups.

Time Machine Status

This area shows the status of Time Machine.

Time Machine Activated: When Time Machine is activated, it may at any time choose to backup and modify
data that is used by Back-In-Time. This is generally not a problem for short operations, but if you plan to
restore an entire disk or a large amount of data, it is advisable to stop Time Machine during the operation.

You can activate or deactivate Time Machine at any time with the buttons at the top left of the window (you can also
open the Time Machine preferences in System Preferences).

Available Time Machine Disks

Time Machine backs up your data on a disk.

Back-In-Time is able to take into account multiple disks used for Time Machine backups, as well as Time Machine
disks used on other Macs, or Time Machine backups located on remote disks, such as Time Capsule.

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