Backup and Restore

The "automatic rdisk" from O&O BlueCon XXL

O&O BlueCon XXL offers you a great opportunity: secure and restore system configurations including the entire registry. If your system crashes due to a badly configured application, a service or a driver, you can restore the original system status and get it up and running again with minimum effort. The back-up command works very much like NT's rdisk, but it saves your security data on your hard disk rather than on a floppy. If your system crashes, you can boot O&O BlueCon XXL from a floppy or a CD-rom and start the restoration process, reverting your system back to its old condition.

Backup

The backup command copies the content of %SystemRoot%\system32\config in the target folder you specify. This is actually the registry including the  local computer, software and user database branches. It creates a new subdirectory in the target folder with the current date and an index for the name. The security data will be stored in this subdirectory. If you choose differential security, only the files that have been changed since the last backup will be copied into a subdirectory with the name 'incr'. This saves you space on your hard disk, and time during startup. The option /h: leaves you the decision as to how many backups O&O BlueCon XXL makes open until the oldest version is overwritten. You can configure the backup either through the control panel menu or O&O BlueCon XXL's command line. 

Restore

Restore replaces your current system configuration with a new one, which is created by the backup command. This can be very useful if your registry is defective or you wish to correct bad modifications such as the installation or deinstallation of software. For the secured data, you have to give in the path that you used for the backup. Restore lists all available backups and you can choose which one should be restored. 

Important note: If your system has more than one operating system (NT 4.0 and Windows 2000), you can't write an NT 4.0-Backup to a Windows 2000 system!

For such cases, O&O BlueCon XXL offers an easy method of securing your critical system configuration data at startup. You can restore them later with O&O BlueCon XXL if your system crashes or if you want to reset bad configurations, e.g. bad drivers. O&O BlueCon offers various backup options for individual configuration of the backup process.  

Complete or differential security

You can choose between a complete securing at startup or just secure the files that have been changed since the last backup. The latter option is useful if you only have limited space on your hard disk. Whichever option you choose, O&O BlueCon XXL can restore in full the last configuration by using the latest backups on your system.

Backup temporary files

You can specify the maximum number of backup temporary files for O&O BlueCon to save to your hard disk. When the maximum number is reached, the oldest temporary files will be overwritten. This number can lie between 0 and 999, 0 standing for an unlimited number of temporary files. If you choose, this option, please don't forget to make sure you have enough space on your hard disk, or you can manually delete backup data from time to time.