Online Backup

Many of us have unfortunately experienced how easy it is to lose data. If a computer breaks, is stolen or if you delete or edit files by mistake, it can be extremely difficult to retrieve the data - unless you took a backup of it. Mamut Teamwork acts as your 'electronic safety deposit box', which not only takes care of your data securely, quickly and easily, but also ensures that your data is stored out-of-house to protect it against fire and theft.

The program makes backing up so easy for its users, that you will not even notice it being done throughout your working day. All you have to do is to make sure you specify which of the files on your machine you want to backup. The program does the rest. Backup files are being taken continuously as you change, delete or add to the files you have selected. For example, if you are saving a new image in 'My pictures', the program can ensure that a backup is created immediately. Or when you work on a letter or a speech and save it on your computer, you will find a copy of it in the backup files.

Regret making a change to a document? Just restore it to how it was the previous day or even a week earlier. You can even locate a document you deleted several days ago, despite having emptied your computer’s trash can in the meantime. The file is still safely stored on the Mamut Teamwork-server. All of this means that you can now save backups of your files without having to do anything other than to adjust the system to suit your needs - Mamut makes sure your files are stored safely on our server.

You can restore single files or entire folders from the computer you are logged into via the History function. Thanks to Mamut Teamwork's unique technology you can even restore a file to how it used to be, e.g. a week ago.

The Restore function has been designed to make it as easy as possible for you to restore data from a machine that is no longer in use or another machine you are accessing via the same user account. However, this function enables you to restore the latest version of a file only.

Individual: Many home PCs running Windows XP are set up in such a way that individual family members have their own user accounts. By connecting a Mamut Teamwork account to each family member you can be sure that backup copies are taken of every user’s data.

Business: For many businesses, taking a backup is a difficult issue as many users tend to work on their laptops out of the office. Standard backup to the company’s server only works if the computer is physically located in the office. By setting up Online Backup you will be able to take backup copies of your data as soon as you connect to the Internet at home, the office or when out travelling.

The backing up of data starts as soon as you have chosen a folder and will take place in real time. Every time you edit the content of a backup task, the changes are saved on the server.

If you are uncertain about what data you should be backing up, we recommend that, above all else, you use your storage space for vital information that you simply cannot afford to lose and where the content changes often. One example of vital business information you should be backing up is the user database in the Mamut Business Software. Other information you might want to consider backing up are e.g. Microsoft Word and Excel files, as changes you make here would be backed up automatically through the Mamut Teamwork service. Static multimedia files such as digital pictures, video recordings or music files are often very large in size. If you want to back up these types of files, you might want to consider increasing the storage allowance for your Mamut Teamwork account or possibly store backups on external storage solutions such as CDs or DVDs.

Under Backup you will find a range of predefined data. In order to simplify this process for you, data is saved during the process of backing up the copies of the files under My Documents in Windows. This is done in the same way, which a range of other Windows programs, make it easy for you to save documents to this area, and find them again from this location. The program is made, so that the predefined data corresponds to the folder you find under My Documents in Windows. All you need to do is mark it off under Backup, so it starts the backup copy.

You will find an option to include these programs for backup among the standard folders if the wizard finds that the programs have been installed on your computer. It is recommended that you include these folders. The Mamut Teamwork Backup function will then process the backup files from the default location for backup files for these programs. (I.e. Mamut Teamwork backs up the backup files from Mamut Business Software or Mamut Home.)

Every time you close one of these programs, you will get a window asking you whether you want to take a backup before leaving the program. If you answer Yes the application will save a backup. By default the programs will suggest you store the files in a local folder on your hard disk called 'backup'. This means that they recommend you to save this folder using Mamut Teamwork.

When you backup the actual backup files and not just the area where the program data is stored, you can be sure that all relevant files are being backed up. In addition the functions in the separate programs ensure that the backups are verified, i.e. they control that the backup is carried out correctly.

If you manually choose to backup other areas of these programs than those included in the default, we recommend that you set up user-defined tasks in Mamut Teamwork, so that the files will be saved.

If you are a running a multi-user version of the program, you have to take the backup from the machine which you are using as the server. Install Mamut Teamwork on this machine and set it up there as well.

Read more about how you setup backup for user-defined tasks in section User-defined tasks.