BackUp Help

• When you first run TuBu, the check box for Files will be checked and grayed. Until you create a file backup, most of the options is TuBu will be grayed.
• To create a full backup set, put check marks in Files, Databases, and Registry. Then select OK. Tubu will calculate the space required to store the backup, and then see if you have enough space remaining on your Storage Card. If not, you'll get a BackUp Error. Copy some files from your Storage Card back to you desktop and then delete them.
• Many programs keep files open while they're running, and this makes a backup impossible. At the bottom of the BackUp page, there's a Shut Down button. This will shut down all other running applications, so that BackUp can do its work. Use it, before you press OK.
• As TuBu goes through the backup, it will show you it's progress: how many bytes it's processed, how many files, etc. The information for the backups of the Databases and Registry is a little more sparse, but they usually go pretty quickly.
• When the backup is complete, TuBu should say, "BackUp was completed successfully."
• TuBu will create three files in the root directory of the Storage Card: TuBu.zip, TuBuReg.zip, and TuBuDB.zip. These contain the Files, Registry, and Databases respectively. All three of these really are just ordinary zip files. If you have an UnZip utility, you can open TuBu.zip, and drag out and restore individual files. Inside TuBuReg.Zip, is TuBuReg.reg, an ordinary Registry Export file. You can actually cut and paste individual Keys and Values to a new reg file, to restore selected parts of the Registry.
• Unfortunately, there's no standard format for the Databases, so the TuBuDB.dba file that's in TuBuDB.zip can't be used by itself. On the other hand, TuBu is capable of restoring just parts of the Databases. Restore Help.
• These files can be moved anywhere on the Storage Card. They don't have to stay in the root directory. They do have to stay together, though. Create a convenient subdirectory, and move all three of them there.
• You'll notice that TuBu also creates a copy of itself in the root of the Storage Card. LEAVE IT THERE! If you have to do a hard reset, you don't want to be wondering where your Restore program is.
• Of course, what's nice about TuBu is that you can do a complete Restore after a hard reset, without having to connect to a desktop computer. See Restoring After a Hard Reset, and WRITE IT DOWN!.

• TuBu needs access to the functions in cezip.dll for BackUp to work. If this file was not found, then all the options on this tab will be grayed out. After a hard reset, this is normal. If it occurs at other times, you'll probably have to reinstall TuBu.