Selection/Settings of the destination drive

Kinds of destination drives (Image, Streamer, etc.) can be selected using the menu field "Destination". A corresponding backup add-on for the destination drive must exist in the folder "Backup/Backup_Server/destinations". The default setting provided by SIEGFRIED BACKUP is the "Image" add-on (file "SFImage" in the folder "Backup/Backup_Server/add-ons/destinations"). "Image" means that all data of a backup is written in a single file (the image). The location of the image can be defined by the user.

The "Settings" button of the destination drive opens a window which enables the user to set or modify the setting of the destination drive. The most important setting for "Image" (shown by "target drive/folder") is the destination folder where the image is to be placed. To change the setting use the button "Location" which pops up a standard BeOS file panel enabling the user to select a different drive/folder for the image. SIEGFRIED BACKUP creates the image in the selected folder when the backup is started.
In addition to the selection of the target drive/folder an overwrite mode ("Overwrite existing data") can be selected. All images in the target drive/folder are deleted if the checkbox is activated when a backup starts. This is useful when only the latest backup of certain data is needed or the same backup is repeated in short time intervals.
Every new backup adds a new image to the folder if the overwrite mode is inactive, which guarantees a maximum of security (and inefficient utilization of target drive capacity).