Genie Backup Manager Home Edition 7.0 Online Manual
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Getting Started
- Product Overview
- Installation
- Genie Backup Manager
- Open File Backup Agent
- Upgrade to the New Version of Genie Backup Manager
- GBM Basics
- Using GBM
- The Main Window
- Backup Devices
- Data
- Personal Data and Settings (My Profile)
- Files and Folders
- Programs and Program Settings
- Backup Settings
- Backup Types
- Security in GBM
Understanding Backup Sets and Purging- Understanding Archive Bit and Backup Types
- Adding a Timestamp to the Backup File
- Rotating Backup Types
- Compression
- Power Management Options
- How to: Create Backup Shortcuts on the Desktop
- How to: Create Self-Restorable Backups
Command Line Parameters
- Scheduler
- Run Backup
- Backup Progress
- Data Verification
- Managing Open Files
- Restore
- Disaster Recovery
- Logs and Reports
- The Backup Log
- The Restore Log
- Data Verification Log
- Advanced Logging
- Notifications and Alerts
- Scripting
- Troubleshooting
- Technical Support
- Ordering Genie Backup Manager
Files Created on the Backup Destination
This is a list of the most important files that Genie Backup Manager might create on the backup destination, along with a description of what each folder/file type signifies:
.gbp
The .gbp file type is associated in Windows with Genie Backup Manager, and it represents the file that the user needs to select in order to load the backup for restore. This file is recreated at each backup execution. When backup is executed with compression enabled, the file with the extension ".gbp" will represent the main backup output file containing the entire backup archive along with GBM's internal use files. If data was forced to split, such as in the case of multiple media spanning, this will be the last file in the set.
In case of backup with compression disabled, GBM will create a file called Main.gbp in the uncompressed backup folder at each backup execution, which will only serve as a link to the index.gix catalog file, located in the same folder, that holds the necessary information for restoring the data from the backup archive.
.c00<X>
This file type represents a split in a compressed backup archive; this occurs when a single compressed archive is divided into multiple linked portions, sequentially numbered starting with .c000 to c00X, where X is the number of split compressed file parts. The last file in the set is always the file {backup job name}.gbp.
.n00<x>
This extension represents a source file that has been split during a backup execution with compression disabled.
.exe
This file is created when the Self-Restorable backup option is selected in the backup job's configuration. If this file is present, Genie Backup Manager does not need to be installed on the target machine in order to restore data from the archive.
If compression was enabled, this file will contain the entire backup archive as long as the size of the data in its compressed form is less than the number specified for the Enable one-file self-restorable backups option; however if this size limit was exceeded, or if the backup was uncompressed, Genie Backup Manager will create a file called "Swift_restore.exe", which will only contain a self-executable version of the restore functionality.