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Selection of the target drive.
The drive images will be saved to the selected drive.For every source drive one image file will be created, containing all data from that drive.
Note:
Only one image backup, which may contain the images of multiple drives, can be created per volume on a hard drive, USB hard drive or RDX hard drive.
You can't save multiple image backups onto one target drive. If one image backup (containing one or more images) has already been saved to the target drive, this image backup will get overwritten by a subsequent image backup.
On a system hard drive only one backup image file (for each drive) can be created. On consecutive system image backups those files that changed since the last backup will be written in the already existing image file.
Multiple backup image files of one source drive can only be created on network drives.
Examples:
•An image of drive C: is saved on a drive doing a backup.
Afterwards an image of drive D: gets saved to the same target drive by a different backup. The already existing image of drive C: will be overwritten by the image of drive D:.
The image of drive C: no longer exists.
•An image of drive C: is saved on a drive doing a backup.
Later the same backup gets started again. This time only the files that changed since the last backup will be saved and added to the already existing image of drive C: (incremental backup).
The backup doesn't take as long. Every 15 backups another full backup will be done automatically.
To save an image of drive C: and drive D: to the same target drive both images have to included in the same image backup. If you want to keep multiple images of the same drive it is advisable to use a different hard drive for every image. That way you won't loose all images at once in case of a hardware failure, damage or theft.
The limitation, one image backup per target drive, doesn't exist if your target drive is a network drive. On a network drive multiple images of the same drive can be saved to different subfolders.
Be sure that the target drive has enough free space available.
 The backup image has to be saved to a hard drive which doesn't contain any of the source drives.
Shutdown computer
Use this option if you want the computer to be shut down automatically after backup.
Print Log File
Activate this option if the log file for the backup should be printed out automatically after backup.
E-Mail Notification
Z-DBackup can send e-mails to a user-defined e-mail address. This option is especially useful for system administrators who want to use Z-DBackup on remote servers and still be notified about all backup results. The mail contains the time, date and backup log file. You can configure the sender and recipient data in the program settings – e-mail settings  .
Link with another backup set
If you want several backup sets to start directly after one another (as one job) e.g. to copy data from two different drives or partitions, you can link backup sets with this option.
This link is a forward link, i.e. A link from the current backup set will point to the backup set selected here.
The backup set you select here will be started automatically after the current backup set has finished its backup task.
You can only link one backup set with one other backup set directly, but you could link the second backup set to a third one and thus concatenate as many backup-sets as you have.
Example:
You have 4 Backup Sets: Backup Set 1 to Backup Set 4
You link Backup Set 4 with Backup Set 2 (in the Settings of Backup Set 4).
The link can be imagined like this: Backup Set 4 → Backup Set 2
Now, when Backup Set 4 gets started, Backup Set 2 will start automatically after Backup Set 4 has finished.
You then link Backup Set 2 with Backup Set 3 (in the Settings of Backup Set 2)
The links between the 3 backup sets can be imagined like this: Backup Set 4 → Backup Set 2 → Backup Set 3
Now, when Backup Set 4 gets started, Backup Set 2 will start after Backup Set 4 hast finished and Backup Set 3 will start after Backup Set 2 hast finished.
Also, whenever Backup Set 2 gets started, Backup Set 3 will start automatically after Backup Set 2 has finished.
The shutdown option is disabled for linked backup sets because only the last backup set of one link chain can shut down the computer.
In the freeware version it is not possible to batch-process linked backup sets, i.e. only the called backup set is processed!
Windows System Backup
•System Backup
•Backup
•Source
•Target - Network
•UNC
•Settings
•Before/After
•Image Catalog
•Image Explorer
•RDX
•Windows Server
•System Restore
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