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DeskTop Backup can be setup very easily to do scheduled backups.

You can:

• Do backups "on demand" which means that there is no automatic backup and you will start DTB and do the backups from the main program only.
• Do backups based on number of days between backups such as: do a backup every seven days.
• Do backups based on the day of the week.

You can have multiple setups and they can all be set individually to do backups the way you specify them on this page.

When doing backups based on "Number of days between backups", DTB will recognise that more than "x" number of days (7 days for example) have passed if you didn't boot on the 7th day and still do the backup.

If you run your machine continuously without a shutting down the system, DTB will not have the opportunity to be started periodically and keep your required backup schedule. It is possible to start the "AutoStart" functions of DTB by calling it's "AutoStart" object from a chron type program. The object name to call is . Calling this object once a day (at midnight for example) is all that is needed as DTB will know automatically once it is started if it has duties to perform and what the duties may be at any given time.