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Backup Destination window
The Backup Destination windows consists of settings for local backup and online backup.

Table 1: Local Backup Destination Settings

Item Description
Back up files to this drive Check this box to enable local backup.
Browse button Click this button to choose a drive as local backup destination. A drive chooser will pop up. In Home Edition, only local drives are supported. In Business Edition or Education Edition, you can use mapped network drive as local backup destination.

If there is not previous DualBackup backup record in the selected drive, a directory called "dualbackup" will be created in the selected drive. All backup data will be stored in the "dualbackup" directory. It is important that you should not modify, rename or delete any file in the "dualbackup" directory, otherwise DualBackup may not be able to restore data correctly.

If the selected drive was used to back up your computer before, DualBackup will retrieve all the backup information from the "dualbackup" drive and continue backing up your computer from the previous backup state.


Table 2: Online Backup Destination Settings

Item Description
Back up files to backup server Check this box to enabled online backup.
Backup ID The online backup ID for this computer. It is different from the ID of the user account on the DualBackup website. User account ID for on the DualBackup website is usually your email address. While the computer backup ID is a text string specified by you. Note that one computer backup account can only be used to back up one computer. If multiple computers uses the same computer backup account, there will be errors and DualBackup may not able to restore your data.
Password The online backup password for this computer.
"Forgot your password?" link Click this link if you forgot your password. A browser window will pop up for you to reset the password. A new password will be sent to the email address associated with this computer backup account.
Signup button If you don't have a computer backup account, you can sign up for online backup service through the DualBackup website (http://www.dualbackup.com/).