Backup Options (Legacy)

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To give you the most control over your automatic backups, these additional options will allow you to customize your specific backup job.

• Remove locally deleted files from my remote backup: With this option enabled, files that are deleted from your computer are also deleted from the servers, however, the file will still be maintained in the Previous Versions archive.
   
• Backup in-use files (NTFS formatted drives only): For NTFS drives, the My Secure Backup has the ability to backup files that are currently in use by the computer.  For Mac and Linux, locked files are already able to be backed up.
   
• Ignore timezone shifts when detecting changed files:  For FAT file systems, this feature will assume files modified within even hour increments from the previous version are due to time zone shifts.  If you enable this option, there is a small potential that a file update may be overlooked if you happen to update a file on increments of exactly one hour from the recent version.  If you do not have a FAT file system, this option should not be selected.
    
• Previous Versions
   
  • Use the online disk previous version settings for this backup job:  All settings as configured in the Previous Versions section will apply to this specific backup.
     
  • Customize the previous version settings for this backup job:
     
    • Keep previous versions of changed files: Copies of the previous versions of files are maintained when you modify the file or upload a new file with the same name.
       
    • Keep previous versions of deleted files: Copies of files that are deleted either manually or during backup cleanup are still maintained.
       
    • Don't keep previous versions for files over: Files larger than the specified size will not be archived when modified or deleted.
       
    • Keep at most: Allows you to select a maximum number of versions to keep regardless of the file's age.