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| Restore Your Data |
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Note: In order to see all of your backed up items, expand the levels by clicking on the arrows to the left hand side of each item - note that the items are NOT displayed according to your Backup Sets - rather, the items are displayed using the same hierarchy (path names) as on your own Mac for ease of navigation (ie. this structure should be more familiar to you).
This feature allows you to recover items that have been previously backed up and are now being stored on our servers. You can:
When you click on the 'Restore' tab in the Main window you will come to a screen that allows you to:
- see your backed up files and how they are being stored in the Restore window
- view the original file size
- view the last modified date
- view the date the item (ie. file/folder) was backed up
- most importantly, restore files from our servers
The Restore window automatically expands any single item entries beginning with the root level until it encounters more than one file/folder at a given level (single volume only). This allows for quicker navigation to the important files/folders.
The Restore window has been designed to show you the paths that lead to where your information is stored. These paths are exactly the same as on your own Mac for ease of navigation in finding your items in the Recover window.
The arrows to the left allow you to expand the levels. If the arrow points down, it indicates that the level is expanded. You can collapse the levels simply by clicking on the arrows so that they point to the right. Individual files will not have an arrow beside them.
Items marked with a strikethrough (eg. 
) are recoverable but have been removed from your backup set folder on your computer and will be deleted from the remote storage servers within 30 days.
Files marked with two plus signs (eg. 
) means that there is more than one revision of the file. You can single-click on the item and see up to 10 revisions of the same file that is available for recovery from the remote storage servers.
Now let's take a look at the most important feature of this window ... recovering files.
Note: You can select an entire folder for recovery AND you can select specific files within a folder, ie. you can select and restore multiple items.
ACTION: To select an Item for recovery, simply click on the item itself in the Items You Have Backed Up list (ie. folder or individual file). Either click the "ADD" button or drag and drop it into your "Items You Would Like To Restore" list. To remove an item from your "Items You Would Like To Restore" list, click on the item in the list and press your "Delete" key.
ACTION: Once you have determined the Items you want to restore, check the Destination and folder name of your restore.
By default, the destination of a restore is your Home Folder and the name of the folder is BackJack Restore <yyyy-mm-dd #>.
You can change the name of the restore and/or the location of the restore by clicking the 'Set...' button.
If you click the 'Set...' button, BackJack will ask you to determine:
- the name of your Restore Folder - you will notice that it defaults to the name BackJack Restore yyyy-mm-dd
- where you want to put your Restore folder on your hard drive
ACTION: Rename the Restore Folder if you wish and choose a location on your hard drive and click on SAVE. If you do not wish to continue, click CANCEL.
BackJack will then begin the process of recovering your Items. The Recovery Progress window is important for monitoring the status of your recovery session. It relays the following information to you:
- start time (date and time the recovery session started)
- elapsed time (how much time so far has elapsed in the recovery process)
- time remaining for the recovery session to complete
- total number of files to recover
- number of files already recovered
- number of files remaining to be recovered
- original file size
Note: The Files Recovered value will only change after the file is fully recovered (ie. successfully recovered, decompressed and decrypted). If you see the file names changing; however, the number of files recovered data is not being updated, there is a problem and you should stop the Recover process.
Once your files/folders have been recovered, they will be available for access by simply navigating to where you saved the Recovery folder on your Mac.
BackJack will automatically take you back to the Restore Tab Window.