Tutorial: How To Setup A Backup

Following yesterday's update (backup and sync for everyone), I will now explain how to set up an automatic backup.

Setting Up A Backup

1. Click on the green 'New' button and choose 'Backup'.
2. A window will open. Click on 'Select folder'.
3. Choose the folder you back up automatically and click on 'Open'.

4. Wuala will have assigned a folder on Wuala by default. Click on 'Select folder' if you do not agree with this default folder.

5. Choose the Wuala folder where you want to create your backup and click on 'OK'.

6. Click on 'OK' to create your backup.

Configuring Your Backup

Go to Window > Backup Overview and select the folder. Click on the settings icon.

Here you can now define the interval of the backup: continuous, hourly, daily, weekly or monthly.
Note: Wuala needs to be running in order to backup the files.

Setting A Backup Filter

If you do not want to backup all files to Wuala, you can set a filter in order to excluse specific files from your backup. Go to Window > Backup Overview and select the folder. Click on the settings icon and specify your filter.

There are two ways to specify the filter, you can either write "" followed by a regular expression or a partial filename combined with one or multiple asteriks (*). E.g.: .*\.jpg is the same as*.jpg. You can specify multiple rules by separating them with a comma (,). For example, you can specify a filter "*.pst, img*.jpg" to exclude all files and folders whose name ends with ".pst" as well as all files and folders whose name starts with “img” and ends with ".jpg".

Please note that as long as the option “When inserting files include system files such as ‘thumbs.db’” is disabled in your settings, system files and temporary files will never get backed up.

If you have any questions on how to backup your files, do not hesitate to contact us at support@wuala.com. We will continue this tutorial series tomorrow and will explain how to set up sync.