DeskTop Backup is a simple tool that works with InfoZip's Zip and Unzipsfx to build a self-extracting zipfile containing your essential desktop and other configuration information. Restoring a backup can be as easy as booting from a disk and executing the backup archive. There are no great and deep mysteries concerning it's use and one can do the same work from the command line along with the InfoZip utilities. DeskTop Backup merely makes it a bit more automated and will help you decide what files may be important to archive.
DeskTop Backup will also let you schedule your backup procedures automatically by number of days between backups or by day of the week. The automatic backup feature works at every bootup sequence to check if a backup is needed and if so, it will proceed with whatever backup procedure is called for depending on your settings.
In general, your backup procedure with DeskTop Backup might be:
To recover your desktop or configuration files you need only:
DeskTop Backup will save all of your backup information when a backup is performed or you can save several distinctive backup setups to be performed on call or automatically. It will also still scan the chosen drive for existence of the files listed when a setup is loaded just in case there have been changes since the last running. (new configuration files may have appeared or possibly some are missing since the last run)
You can also save multiple archive setups and recall them at will as well as setting the scheduler to run automatically at startup to archive by "days between archives" or "day of the week".
So you might be aware, here are some Pro's and con's. relating to the use of DeskTop Backup.
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