Configuring Email Notification and Miscellaneous settings

The final stage is to configure for email notifications to be sent on successful completion or failure of the backup job and other miscellaneous settings like run tasks e.g. mounting / unmounting hard disks before / after the backup and even set your system to shutdown on completion of a backup.

2.1.2.5.1 Email Notifications

Comodo BackUp can send email notifications on execution of each backup job. You can configure CBU to send notifications to yourself or other people like your team members, to be informed of the backup. You can also configure whether the email notifications are to be sent only on successful creation of backup, only on failure or both.

To configure email notification

1. Select the check boxes beside 'on success' and / or 'on failure' depending on your requirement on when you and others are to be informed of the backup job.

2. If you are using your email account for the first time, Select 'New' from the 'Account:' drop-down.

3. Enter the name of the SMTP server, the address of the outgoing mail server that the notification emails are sent through, in the 'STMP Server' text box.

4. Enter the port number of the server to be used. (default = 25 for non-SSL connection and 465 for SSL connection)

5. Type the subject for the backup email in the 'Subject' text box. This is to indicate that the email is autogenerated by Comodo BackUp application (e.g. CBU Notification).

6. Enter the address on behalf of whom the notification should be sent. (e.g. your email address) in the 'From' text box. Note: This address should be supported by SMTP server you defined.

7. Enter the email address of the person to whom the notification should be sent in the 'To' text box. If you want the notification file to be sent to yourself, enter your email address here.

8. Type the username of your email account in the 'Username' text box.

9. Type your email account password in the 'Password' text box.

10. If you want to use the secure SSL connection for the email, select the 'Use SSL Connection' checkbox.

Note: The 'Account:' drop-down can display all the email accounts you might be using for sending Backup files.

New email accounts can be added to this drop-down, by selecting the 'Remember me' checkbox whenever you use an email account for the first time. When using a previously added email account in future, you just need to select the account from the Account: drop-down, and need not enter the other details.

To check whether you have made the configurations correctly, click 'Send test message' button. A success or failure dialog is displayed. If a failure dialog is displayed, recheck your specifications and try again. On success message, check your email inbox to see the test message.

2.1.2.5.2 Miscellaneous Settings

Run Tasks before and/or after Backup - Comodo Backup allows you to run specific tasks before and / or after every manual or scheduled backup. For example, you may want to run your virus scanner before backing up to avoid potential infection of the destination folder. You can even mount an unmounted drive partition before backup to enable storing the backup file in the partition and unmount the partition on completion of the backup process by running a batch file with a list of corresponding Windows commands, play music files to indicate start and / or completion of the backup operation etc.

To run a task before a backup operation

1. Select the 'Run task before backup' checkbox and click 'Browse'.

2. Navigate to the location of the file to be executed and click 'OK'.

3. Select the checkbox 'Wait for task to complete' if you want CBU to wait until the selected task is to be completed before executing the backup job. Leaving this box unchecked makes CBU to start the backup operation before completion of the selected task.

• Repeat the same procedure for running a task after backup.

2.1.2.5.3 Export to script

Clicking the 'Export to script' button enables you to store the backup job as a script file in any desired location in your system and to run the saved job from that location when ever needed. This is useful for the backup jobs you want to execute often, without scheduling.

To store the created backup job as a script file

1. Click 'Export to script' button. A 'Save As' dialog opens.

2. Browse to the location where you want to store the script file of the created backup job.

3. Enter the 'File name' as you want and click 'Save'. The script is stored as a file with .cbs extension.

To run the script from the saved location

1. Navigate to the location where the Backup Job script is saved with the .cbs extension, from Windows Explorer.

2. Double click the saved file or right click on the file and select the 'Open' option.

The selected backup job is executed as explained in the section Finalization > Instant Execution.

2.1.2.6 Finalization

The final stage is the execution of the configured backup job. You can:

• Execute the backup job instantly ; or

• Schedule the backup to run at recurring time intervals or upon the occurrence of an certain event .