Your new group magically appears in the main window :Ī backup configuration is called 'target' in Areca. Enter 'My First Backup Group' as group name. To create your first group, go to the 'Edit' menu and select 'New Group'.Ī new window will appear, asking for a group name and description. For instance you can create a first configuration that backups your MP3 without compression, and another one that backups your documents with compression and encryption.Īreca allows you to group your configurations so they will be easier to manage. You can create multiple backup configurations in Areca. This is the main interface of Areca Backup.Īs said before, we want to store our configuration in '/home/olivier/areca_workspace', so go to the 'Workspace' menu, choose 'Open Workspace' and select '/home/olivier/areca_workspace'. A new window like this one should appear : Simply run the 'areca.sh' script (on Linux) or 'areca.exe' (on Windows). I assume in this tutorial that your backup directory is '/backups'. This directory will be refered as 'Backup directory'. In this tutorial, I assume that your workspace is '/home/olivier/areca_workspace'.Īreca will also need a directory (on your local hard drive or a USB drive, for instance) where to store your archives.

This 'configuration directory' is called a 'workspace'. It is assumed that you've installed Areca using the default procedure of your system (Linux or Windows).Īreca will need a directory where it will store the configuration of your backups (what files to backup, where to store them, which files types must be filtered, whether the backups are compressed or encrypted, and so on).

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