FAB'S AUTOBACKUP 4 TECH

USER'S MANUAL

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction ............................................................................................................... p 3

Installation instructions .......................................................................................... p 5

How to use
Backup data from local system drive
From current user profile (Windows 2000 to 7/2008 x64) ..................... p 6
From more than one user profile (Windows 2000 to XP/2003) ........... p 12
From more than one user profile (Windows VISTA/7/2008) ............... p 15

Backup data from another system drive

From one or more users profiles (Windows 2000 to XP/2003) ........... p 18
From one or more users profiles (Windows VISTA/7/2008) ................p 21

Restore data ........................................................................................................ p 24

Ho to make a PE Builder / UBCD4WIN plugin .....................................................p 26

INTRODUCTION
Fab's AutoBackup 4 Tech is a backup tool that runs on Microsoft Windows (from
Windows 2000 to Windows 7). It is portable and does not need installation. It also can be
used as a plugin for Bart PE / UBCD4WIN (Windows XP-2003 "live CD" created with PE
Builder).
Features included :
Backup and restoration of the following items from local drives and non booting
drives mounted as second hard drive or using Bart PE for up to 20 users at once :
User's Windows desktop (files, folders, shortcuts).
Desktop's wallpaper (picture and settings).
Quick launch toolbar (backup and restoration do not work on Window 7 because
this feature does not exist anymore).
"My documents" folder.
"My pictures" folder.
"My music" folder.
"My videos" folder.
Windows Internet Explorer favorites and homepage..
Google Chrome profile.
Chromium browser profile.
Opera Web browser profile.
Apple Safari profile.
Mozilla Firefox profiles (cache, bookmarks, customizations, extensions ).
Microsoft Outlook Express (emails, settings and accounts except passwords).
Windows address book (used by outlook Express, Windows Mail and Windows
Live Mail).
Microsoft Office Outlook personal data files (.pst and .ost files).
Windows Messaging Subsystem (MAPI) profiles (contains MS Outlook Accounts
and configuration). Feature designed for experts.
Microsoft Office Outlook typed addresses history (.nk2 file).
Microsoft Windows Mail / Live Mail (emails, settings and accounts except
passwords).
Mozilla Thunderbird profiles (emails, accounts, customizations, extensions ).
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 Opera Mail (messaging part of Opera Web Browser).

IncrediMail identities (emails, settings and accounts except passwords).
Microsoft Windows Vista's Calendar (Vista only : can not be restored on another
Windows version).
Windows Live Messenger stuff (settings, installed emoticons...).
Skype settings.
Windows Sidebar's gadgets (for Windows Vista/7).
Downloads folder
"Shared documents" folder.
Microsoft Office Activation files (from Office XP to Office 2007).
Modem (RAS) settings
Installed fonts
User defined additional files
User defined additional folders

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
Unpack Fab's AutoBackup 4 Tech to any drive (local, network, USB...). Local or
USB are advised.
Run AutoBackup4Tech.exe within AutoBackup4Tech folder.
Select the language you want to use.
That is it! You can now start to use the program.

HOW TO USE
BACKUP FROM LOCAL USER PROFILE ON LOCAL HARD DRIVE
Launch AutoBackup4Tech.exe with double click.

Leave the "Backup data" radio button checked

Type the backup location's path in the matching text field or use the browse
button to select it.
Check the box "backup in sub-folder..." if you want your data stored in a
separated folder. That may be useful if you do not want to overwrite a previous
backup.
Click the "Next" button.

 Select the items you want to be backed-up. They are splited into tabs (user's
files and common files) and sorted by categories. Here are the available tabs
and their items :
User's files :

Personal Folders :

Desktop

Desktop Wallpaper

Quick Launch toolbar shortcuts

My Documents

My Pictures

My Music

My Videos

WEB Browsers :

Internet Explorer favorites

Main start page (Internet Explorer's home page)

Google Chrome profile

Chromium browser profile

Opera Web browser profile

Apple Safari profile

Mozilla Firefox profile(s)

Mail :

Outlook Express Identities

Outlook Personal Data Files

Outlook signatures files

Outlook.nk2 (Outlook typed addresses history)

Windows Mail / Live Mail

Windows address book

Mozilla Thunderbird Profile(s)

Opera mail

Incredimail identities

Misc :

Windows Calendar

Windows Live Messenger

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Skype

Windows Sidebar's Gadgets

Downloads folder

Common files :

Shared documents

Fonts

Microsoft Office Activation files

Rasphone.pbk file (modem settings file)

Additional files

Additional folders

You can change the path for most of the items. In example, if you want to backup
another folder for "My Videos", you can browse you computer and select it. It will be used
instead. Note that it will be copied at the default location if you restore it later. You may use
the "additional folder" backup feature if you want it to be restore elsewhere you want.
Once completed your selections, you can launch the backup process by clicking
the "Launch" button within the last tab.
During the backup process, a log is shown, displaying the current status. If there
were errors on some files, you could track them reading the log file within your
backup folder. This file is written at the end of backup process. Usually, the
errors are caused by files locked during the process, file paths too longs (over
255 characters, Windows cannot handle them) or illegal characters in the path.
In the first case, close all the running applications and backup your data again.
In the second, try to rename the file or/and the folders tree in order to make the
path shorter. In the last case, try to find where is the illegal characters and
replace them with others more usual.
At the end of the process, the log will show a message saying that backup is
finished. Your backup is done!

BACKUP FROM CURRENT USER PROFILE ON LOCAL HARD DRIVE

Launch AutoBackup4Tech.exe with double click.

Leave the "Backup data" radio button checked

Check you user name in the "Select Users" box
Type the backup location's path in the matching text field or use the browse
button to select it.
Check the box "backup in sub-folder..." if you want your data stored in a
separated folder. That may be useful if you do not want to overwrite a previous
backup.
Click the "Next" button.

 Select the items you want to be backed-up. They are divided into tabs (user's
files and common files) and sorted by categories. Here are the available tabs
and their items :
User's files :

Personal Folders :

Desktop

Desktop Wallpaper

Quick Launch toolbar shortcuts

My Documents

My Pictures

My Music

My Videos

WEB Browsers :

Internet Explorer favorites

Main start page (Internet Explorer's home page)

Google Chrome profile

Chromium browser profile

Opera Web browser profile

Apple Safari profile

Mozilla Firefox profile(s)

Mail :

Outlook Express Identities

Outlook Personal Data Files

Outlook signatures files

Outlook.nk2 (Outlook typed addresses history)

Windows Mail / Live Mail

Windows address book

Mozilla Thunderbird Profile(s)

Opera mail

IncrediMail identities

Misc :

Windows Calendar

Windows Live Messenger

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Skype

Windows Sidebar's Gadgets

Downloads folder

Common files :

Shared documents

Fonts

Microsoft Office Activation files

Windows calendar

Rasphone.pbk file (modem settings file)

Additional files

Additional folders

You can change the path for most of the items. In example, if you want to backup
another folder for "My Videos", you can browse you computer and select it. It will be used
instead. Note that it will be copied at the default location if you restore it later. You may use
the "additional folder" backup feature if you want it to be restore elsewhere you want.
Once completed your selections, you can launch the backup process by clicking
the "Launch" button within the last tab.
During the backup process, a log is shown, displaying the current status. If there
were errors on some files, you could track them reading the log file within your
backup folder. This file is written at the end of backup process. Usually, the
errors are caused by files locked during the process, file paths too longs (over
255 characters, Windows cannot handle them) or illegal characters in the path.
In the first case, close all the running applications and backup your data again.
In the second, try to rename the file or/and the folders tree in order to make the
path shorter. In the last case, try to find where is the illegal characters and
replace them with others more usual.
At the end of the process, the log will show a message saying that backup is
finished. Your backup is done!

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BACKUP FROM MORE THAN ONE USER PROFILE ON LOCAL HARD DRIVE
(UNDER WINDOWS 2000 / XP / 2003)
First : you need to be logged in as local administrator
Launch AutoBackup4Tech.exe with double click.

Leave the "Backup data" radio button checked

Check the users names in the "Select Users" box
Type the backup location's path in the matching text field or use the browse
button to select it.
The checkbox "backup in sub-folder..." is auto-checked if there are more than
one user profile selected.
Click the "Next" button.

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 Select the items you want to be backed-up. They are divided into tabs (user's
files and common files) and sorted by categories. Here are the available tabs
and their items :
User's files (this items are available on each user tab):

Personal Folders :

Desktop

Desktop Wallpaper

Quick Launch toolbar shortcuts

My Documents

My Pictures

My Music

My Videos
WEB Browsers :

Internet Explorer favorites

Main start page (Internet Explorer's home page)

Google Chrome profile

Chromium browser profile

Opera Web browser profile

Apple Safari profile

Mozilla Firefox profile(s)

Mail :

Outlook Express Identities

Outlook Personal Data Files

Outlook signatures files

Outlook.nk2 (Outlook typed addresses history)

Windows Mail / Live Mail

Windows address book

Mozilla Thunderbird Profile(s)

Opera mail

Incredimail identities
Misc :

Windows Live Messenger

Skype
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Windows Sidebar's Gadgets

Downloads folder

Common files :

Shared documents

Fonts

Microsoft Office Activation files

Rasphone.pbk file (modem settings file)

Additional files

Additional folders

You can change the path for most of the items. In example, if you want to backup
another folder for "My Videos", you can browse you computer and select it. It will be
used instead. Note that it will be copied at the default location if you restore it later.
You may use the "additional folder" backup feature if you want it to be restore
elsewhere you want.
Once completed your selections, you can launch the backup process by clicking
the "Launch" button within the last tab.
During the backup process, a log is shown, displaying the current status. If there
were errors on some files, you could track them reading the log file within your
backup folder. This file is written at the end of backup process. Usually, the
errors are caused by files locked during the process, file paths too longs (over
255 characters, Windows cannot handle them) or illegal characters in the path.
In the first case, close all the running applications and backup your data again.
In the second, try to rename the file or/and the folders tree in order to make the
path shorter. In the last case, try to find where is the illegal characters and
replace them with others more usual.
At the end of the process, the log will show a message saying that backup is
finished. Your backup is done!

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BACKUP FROM MORE THAN ONE USER PROFILE ON LOCAL HARD DRIVE
(UNDER WINDOWS VISTA / 7 / 2008)
First : you need to be logged in as local administrator.
Launch AutoBackup4Tech.exe with right click and select "Run as administrator.

Grant the privileges elevation prompt

Leave the "Backup data" radio button checked
Check the users names in the "Select Users" box
Type the backup location's path in the matching text field or use the browse
button to select it.
The checkbox "backup in sub-folder..." is auto-checked if there are more than
one user profile selected.
Click the "Next" button.

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 Select the items you want to be backed-up. They are divided into tabs (user's
files and common files) and sorted by categories. Here are the available tabs
and their items :
User's files (this items are available on each user tab):

Personal Folders :

Desktop

Desktop Wallpaper

Quick Launch toolbar shortcuts

My Documents

My Pictures

My Music

My Videos

WEB Browsers :

Internet Explorer favorites

Main start page (Internet Explorer's home page)

Google Chrome profile

Chromium browser profile

Opera Web browser profile

Apple Safari profile

Mozilla Firefox profile(s)

Outlook Express Identities

Outlook Personal Data Files

Outlook signatures files

Outlook.nk2 (Outlook typed addresses history)

Windows Mail / Live Mail

Windows address book

Mozilla Thunderbird Profile(s)

Opera mail

Incredimail identities

Windows Calendar

Windows Live Messenger

Mail :

Misc :

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Skype

Windows Sidebar's Gadgets

Downloads folder

Common files :

Shared documents

Fonts

Microsoft Office Activation files

Rasphone.pbk file (modem settings file)

Additional files

Additional folders

You can change the path for most of the items. In example, if you want to backup
another folder for "My Videos", you can browse you computer and select it. It will be
used instead. Note that it will be copied at the default location if you restore it later.
You may use the "additional folder" backup feature if you want it to be restore
elsewhere you want.
Once completed your selections, you can launch the backup process by clicking
the "Launch" button within the last tab.
During the backup process, a log is shown, displaying the current status. If there
were errors on some files, you could track them reading the log file within your
backup folder. This file is written at the end of backup process. Usually, the
errors are caused by files locked during the process, file paths too longs (over
255 characters, Windows cannot handle them) or illegal characters in the path.
In the first case, close all the running applications and backup your data again.
In the second, try to rename the file or/and the folders tree in order to make the
path shorter. In the last case, try to find where is the illegal characters and
replace them with others more usual.
At the end of the process, the log will show a message saying that backup is
finished. Your backup is done!

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BACKUP FROM ONE OR MORE USERS PROFILES ON ANOTHER SYSTEM DRIVE

(UNDER WINDOWS 2000 / XP / 2003)
First : you need to be logged in as local administrator
Launch AutoBackup4Tech.exe with double click.

Leave the "Backup data" radio button checked

Select the source hard drive or select the path to "Windows" folder on it.
Check the users names in the "Select Users" box
Type the backup location's path in the matching text field or use the browse
button to select it.
The checkbox "backup in sub-folder..." is auto-checked if there are more than
one user profile selected.
Click the "Next" button.

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 Select the items you want to be backed-up. They are divided into tabs (user's
files and common files) and sorted by categories. Here are the available tabs
and their items :
User's files (this items are available on each user tab):

Personal Folders :

Desktop

Desktop Wallpaper

Quick Launch toolbar shortcuts

My Documents

My Pictures

My Music

My Videos

WEB Browsers :

Internet Explorer favorites

Main start page (Internet Explorer's home page)

Google Chrome profile

Chromium browser profile

Opera Web browser profile

Apple Safari profile

Mozilla Firefox profile(s)

Outlook Express Identities

Outlook Personal Data Files

Outlook signatures files

Outlook.nk2 (Outlook typed addresses history)

Windows Mail / Live Mail

Windows address book

Mozilla Thunderbird Profile(s)

Opera mail

Incredimail identities

Windows Calendar

Windows Live Messenger

Mail :

Misc :

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Skype

Windows Sidebar's Gadgets

Downloads folder

Common files :

Shared documents

Fonts

Microsoft Office Activation files

Rasphone.pbk file (modem settings file)

Additional files

Additional folders

You can change the path for most of the items. In example, if you want to backup
another folder for "My Videos", you can browse you computer and select it. It will be
used instead. Note that it will be copied at the default location if you restore it later.
You may use the "additional folder" backup feature if you want it to be restore
elsewhere you want.
Once completed your selections, you can launch the backup process by clicking
the "Launch" button within the last tab.
During the backup process, a log is shown, displaying the current status. If there
were errors on some files, you could track them reading the log file within your
backup folder. This file is written at the end of backup process. Usually, the
errors are caused by files locked during the process, file paths too longs (over
255 characters, Windows cannot handle them) or illegal characters in the path.
In the first case, close all the running applications and backup your data again.
In the second, try to rename the file or/and the folders tree in order to make the
path shorter. In the last case, try to find where is the illegal characters and
replace them with others more usual.
At the end of the process, the log will show a message saying that backup is
finished. Your backup is done!

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BACKUP FROM ONE OR MORE USERS PROFILES ON ANOTHER SYSTEM DRIVE

(UNDER WINDOWS VISTA / 7 / 2008)
First : you need to be logged in as local administrator
Launch AutoBackup4Tech.exe with right click and select "Run as administrator".

Grant the elevation privileges prompt

Leave the "Backup data" radio button checked
Select the source hard drive or select the path to "Windows" folder on it.
Check the users names in the "Select Users" box
Type the backup location's path in the matching text field or use the browse
button to select it.
The checkbox "backup in sub-folder..." is auto-checked if there are more than
one user profile selected.
Click the "Next" button.

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 Select the items you want to be backed-up. They are divided into tabs (user's
files and common files) and sorted by categories. Here are the available tabs
and their items :
User's files (this items are available on each user tab):

Personal Folders :

Desktop

Desktop Wallpaper

Quick Launch toolbar shortcuts

My Documents

My Pictures

My Music

My Videos

WEB Browsers :

Internet Explorer favorites

Main start page (Internet Explorer's home page)

Google Chrome profile

Chromium browser profile

Opera Web browser profile

Apple Safari profile

Mozilla Firefox profile(s)

Outlook Express Identities

Outlook Personal Data Files

Outlook signatures files

Outlook.nk2 (Outlook typed addresses history)

Windows Mail / Live Mail

Windows address book

Mozilla Thunderbird Profile(s)

Opera mail

Incredimail identities

Windows Calendar

Windows Live Messenger

Mail :

Misc :

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Skype

Windows Sidebar's Gadgets

Downloads folder

Common files :

Shared documents

Fonts

Microsoft Office Activation files

Rasphone.pbk file (modem settings file)

Additional files

Additional folders

You can change the path for most of the items. In example, if you want to backup
another folder for "My Videos", you can browse you computer and select it. It will be
used instead. Note that it will be copied at the default location if you restore it later.
You may use the "additional folder" backup feature if you want it to be restore
elsewhere you want.
Once completed your selections, you can launch the backup process by clicking
the "Launch" button within the last tab.
During the backup process, a log is shown, displaying the current status. If there
were errors on some files, you could track them reading the log file within your
backup folder. This file is written at the end of backup process. Usually, the
errors are caused by files locked during the process, file paths too longs (over
255 characters, Windows cannot handle them) or illegal characters in the path.
In the first case, close all the running applications and backup your data again.
In the second, try to rename the file or/and the folders tree in order to make the
path shorter. In the last case, try to find where is the illegal characters and
replace them with others more usual.
At the end of the process, the log will show a message saying that backup is
finished. Your backup is done!

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RESTORE DATA
This feature only works for one user profile at once and only for local system
drive.
Start Fab's AutoBackup 4 Tech.
Check the "Restore data" radio button :

Type the path to your backup folder or use the browse button to select it :

Click the "Next" button.

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 Select on each tab the items you want to restore.

Note : there are some items with restoration options : Mozilla Firefox profile(s),
Mozilla Thunderbird profile(s), additional files and additional folders. Here are
them :

Mozilla Firefox profiles can be restored at their original locations (if the
profile has not been stored in the default directory). If the source Firefox
version is not the same as the destination's, there is a compatibility mode
that restores only the profile, without the add-ons (they may be
incompatibles and cause Firefox crashes).

Mozilla Thunderbird profiles restoration feature works exactly the same

way as the Mozilla Firefox restoration feature.

Additional files and folders can be restored at their original locations or

you can choose another one.

Be careful : if you choose to restore to the original location, be sure that the original
path is available from your computer. Otherwise, restore your files using other
options.
Once completed your selections, you can launch the backup process by clicking
the "Launch" button within the "Custom / Launch" tab.
During the restoration process, there may be some copy errors. Be sure that no
application is running and lock the target files, then try to restore again.
At the end of the restore process, the log will show a message saying that
restoration job is finished. The restoration log file is stored on your desktop. You
can check it if there were errors. Your restoration is done!
Note : if the restored data are from a backup job with several users account involved, you
will have to restore common files like separately. Just start the program again and select
the backup folder named like "YYYY-MM-DD-COMMON" and start the restoration process.

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MAKE FAB'S AUTOBACKUP 4 TECH PE BUILDER / UBCD4WIN PLUGIN

Run Fab's AutoBackup 4 Tech at least once (to accept the license agreement
and set the language).
Download the Fab's AutoBackup 4 Tech plugin from the website, under the "PE
Builder\ Utilities" section. Save it to your hard drive.
Run PE Builder or UBCD4WIN
Click the "Plugins" button :

Click the "Add" button

Select the "AutoBackup4Tech.cab " file and click "Open" button

Click OK for the plugin name folder dialog box.
Close the plugins
Open the "autobackup4tech" within your plugin directory using Windows
Explorer.

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 Create a "Files" folder inside.

Copy the "language" folder and files "AutoBackup4Tech.exe" and
"AutoBackup.ini" files inside the "plugin\autobackup4tech\Files" folder from your
program directory.
You can build your PE Builder / UBCD4WIN boot CD, you will be able to use
Fab's AutoBackup 4 Tech with unbootable machines.

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