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Thank you for your kind words. That is strange, all my videos lately have had 100% Likes. Not sure why the thumbs down on this one. Although I'm getting alot more views that usual because this video is embedded in their website now and it could be a competitor.
Great tutorial. I've been using Cobian Backup for about a decade. I know it is discontinued so I searched for its successor and found out about Reflector. And immediately went to TH-cam to see how it looks like. I am pleased to see the GUI is pretty the same. :-) BTW this video is a year old and at the time of this video making the Cobian Reflector was available in version 0.9.50 beta. Right now I see version 2.3.7 on the Cobian website which is remarkable. I currently use Cobian Backup 11 (Gravity) and it works without flaws. But right now I am doing compressed backup of my files and I noticed it only uses one core of my CPU. So I'm gonna give Reflector a shot and see if it uses better compression library that can use multi-core processing. :-)
Thank you very much for this video, I like the way that you presented it making it easy for me to follow along. I did not hear any audio problems as noted in other comments. It was as advertised, you covered the the basics and I got the back up task started that meets my needs. I also like the way you show the working screen which was very helpful when I was setting up my Task. Thank you and Job Well Done.
👍 Thanks! P.S. - As I read it, _Cobian Reflector_ is not a rebrand per se, but a _completely new backup program._ Being developed/written by the original author of _Cobian Backup_ program, which he _sold_ back in 2014. But, I suppose _rebrand_ does -kind of- work. ✌
You're welcome. It is a bit confusing because it's supposed to be a rebrand because he did sell Cobian Backup, however it's using the same website, by the same developer and links to the old software. But it's supposed to be a new program, and it looks exactly the same. Either way, I love the software.
Suppose I want to back up certain folders on my Windows laptop and want to keep only the latest version of the folders, what would be the best way to use Cobian Reflect? In incremental mode? I would like deleted files to disappear from the back up as well! Should the first backup be done in incremental mode as well?
Differential or incremental will work for you, but there is no automatic deletion of files from a backup. There is no way to delete files from backup that were deleted from the computer. The point of backup is if something got deleted by accident or a virus or hacker, you don't want it deleted from the backup before you have a chance to recover it.
Merci M. Gauthier. Enfin une explication claire de cette dernière mouture de Cobian. Savez-vous si les Tasks de Cobian 11 peuvent être facilement importées dans CrReflector?
Vous êtes les bienvenus. Je ne me souviens pas si cela peut être fait, mais vous pouvez essayer de sauvegarder la liste et d'ouvrir/importer la liste dans Reflector.
buena tarde Daniel, he usado el programa y me parece excelente me a ayudado bastante, lo unico es que no me realiza la copia de la carpeta de onedrive por medio del cobian reflector en red, a que se debe esto o porque? que configuracion le debo realizar al cobian?
Thank you. I haven't measured the service usage but I've never seen a problem in this regard worth investigating. I'll consider in depth videos in the future. Right now I'm trying to keep up with pumping out 2 videos a week after some major life and business changes. Next year will be a different story. :)
Hi, thanks for your video !! I was trying to do a backup as you explained, from my Google Drive virtual drive to my D drive. For some reason it failed. Can you explain how to do it? I'm unable to transfer Google Drive to drive D so it does not work. So I have two questions. 1. Do you know if it is possible to transfer Google Drive to a normal drive or does it have to be on a virtual drive? 2. If it has to be virtual, is there a way to get around it and make a backup? Maybe in another software? I would really love your help
You're welcome and thanks for your question. I have seen this issue before but haven't tried with Google drive in some time now. I believe the only files that won't copy from Google Drive are Google doc type files. Other files on Google drive should backup, but it will exclude the Google Doc type files. That's probably what you notice and the only way to backup those documents is using Google TakeOut, which I have a video on, or if you have the Google Business services, you can pay for Google Backup services.
@@TwinBytesInc Thanks for your answer. I have no Google Doc files at all. Unfortunately he does not agree to back up any file or folder because it is on a virtual drive .... and as I wrote there is no way to put Google Drive if it is not on a virtual drive.
Yes, you need the Google Drive app on your computer to have the drive to copy from and it should work. Some people will say you don't have to backup online storage, but if you get hacked and those files are delete or encrypted with encryption virus, and you don't have a backup, then you'll be out of luck there.
Question, I have a network attached storage. Two hard drives to my routers and connect to them via windows explorer by typing \\192.168.x.x etc.. Not sure if I can set this up to work with those?
HI DANIEL very good tutorial! when i setup the source drive what are the key items that should be backed up? i ran mine for the 1st time just using the c drive and it ran for 4 hours! Thanks in advance!
Thank you. The most important is in c:\%userprofile% but you can usually exclude c:\%userprofile%\AppData. Although there maybe some things inside that AppData folder such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Outlook to backup that maybe important to you.
You're welcome. The time depends on how much you have to backup, how much has changed since last backup and what shape your drive is in. If incremental was 2 hours, how long was the first full backup? Must have been much longer.
That sounds like it might be a little long but really depends on how much has changed since the last backup. Incremental should be a fraction of the time the full backup took. Not just half. I haven't tried incremental backups with this yet as I usually recommend full unless you don't have the time to run full every day. I believe something is not right with this and not sure if it's a bug in the program or a misconfiguration on your side. Maybe someone else can comment on their experience here. It is in Beta version though, so it's not expected to be perfect yet.
I need some help: I need to migrate computers. I use reflector to backup stuff from our NAS to another backup drive in our network. If I change the computer from where reflector works will I have to make a whole new backup or will Reflector pick up where it left off? I see there is an option to export "lists", is this the way? Thanks!
Hello, Why when backing up to two different locations, does Cobian re-compress the files instead of copying them? Is there a forecast for Google Drive support?
I believe the compression only happens if you choose those options. I don't know about future support, I'm not the developer, but you can contact him at www.cobiansoft.com/about.html
If it wasn't encrypted you can just copy and paste from the backup device. if it was encrypted I believe I have another video on that th-cam.com/video/5S8cWMHdPjI/w-d-xo.html
what I recommend is having more than one backup drive, so if something happens to one, you have the other. Then you can simply delete the one backup drive, take a new full backup, which you should do every so often anyway. Simple and clean. No complex settings.
Yes you can definitely configure to send reports via Gmail, but because Gmail considers it a less secure app, you will need to create an app password for it. Then the other server settings you can easily find on a Google search.
That would be great i am about to start the differential backup but want to be sure i understand the process of restoring the original back and then the differential backup to it@@TwinBytesInc
I have attempted to try to move windows to ssd and I’m not so sure what I have done wrong. Initially, my windows was downloaded in my C drive as I have not yet bought an ssd at the time of when I built my pc, it was only about a month ago that I bought my ssd as booting windows was really slow for me. From what I have read online, I needed to make a backup for my c drive just in case something went wrong when moving my Windows. I then cloned my C drive into the same drive since I had a little bit more than a whole TB left in my HDD. Looking back at it, I know for sure that is where I have gone wrong since I should have gotten like an external storage to put in my backup or something along the lines of that. For some reason, the cloning process took me over a day, I didn’t know if it was because of my slow hdd or it was because it was a little bit below 1tb to clone (the answer to that is probably simple, but I am new to this.) After the whole cloning process is done, I went to my Disk Management and couldn’t find my backup anywhere as I thought that that backup would have been in its separate column in my HDD. What can I do to fix it?
Thanks for your comment but I can't offer free troubleshooting here. if your existing drive still works, try cloning again. Don't just clone C drive through, there are hidden boot partitions. You need to clone the entire drive. The new SSD must be the same size as the old drive, or it won't fit. There are different methods you can use, they can all work. You can do it!
Actually I can't tell what version TLS is used or when the next version is released, but another Beta came out just after I released this video. So you can check back on their website often to see what the current version is. You can always email the developer directly if you like to ask about things like the TLS version which is not visible in the program. They do have a support forum as well at forum.cobiansoft.com/index.php
I haven't tried on Windows 7 as it's not recommended anyone should be using Windows 7 anymore, although it does support Windows 7 with SP1. Otherwise you could download the previous version like you mentioned.
@@TwinBytesInc Thanks. I will do that. I'm an older person and didn't upgrade to Windows 10 because I didn't want to have to spend the time learning to handle it. I'm an artist and would sooner be spending as much time as possible painting. I assume much of what one does with installing and setting up Reflector to use (as in this tutorial) is the same for the Cobian 11? And thank you for the tutorial. Its pretty easy to follow - even for a low tech guy such as myself. :)
Thank you for your kind words and taking time to comment. Yes, the Cobian Reflector is almost identical to the older Cobian Backup. I understand your hesitant to upgrade to Windows 10 as well, but other than the start menu, all your programs look and run the same as they do on Windows 7. All your icons to those programs on your desktop are still there. It's really the start menu and control panel options that would be different. It's not as much of a change as most people think. But have a look at my videos on Windows 10 and see for yourself and you can decide.
@@TwinBytesInc thank you. What I meant to ask was if watching the Reflector video will give me pretty much what I need to know to download Cobian 11 and set it up to work for me? With Windows 7 it seems that Refletor won't work for me so I have to go for Cobian 11 at the present time. I use to have Cobian before it was sold. All I knew is that it suddenly stopped working. I've never replaced it with a back-up program and when I try to back up through Windows I can't do so (get something like 'Task Manager' is corrupted' - or something like that) so I have to download something to back-up my computer pretty quick ( haven't done so since Cobian was sold) and knew the old Cobian, and it was real simple for my simple needs, so thought this would be a good choice. I do have a couple questions due to my lack of knowledge that you may be able to help me with - do these programs back up all the files I have set up in my Thunderbird Email program (the mail originally comes through Gmail to Thunderbird) when it copies 'all of my files'? Secondly - does this program do a Mirror image and is that needed by someone like me who is not a 'company' and probably doesn't use my computer that much compared to most folks... ie, no gaming, next to no aps, but quite a few files of photos of my art and refererence photos for painting from and the numerous other files with information collected over the years. I have 338 GB free of 465GB on my Local Disk (C:) so I guess I'm not using much 'space'. I will be saving a full copy to a 500 GB Toshiba removable drive (or whatever its called) and deleting older copies when I need to do so to make room for newer ones. I will probably run the backup once a month or so. My apologies if this is taking up too much of your time and I appreciate any time you may have but understand if you don't. After all, these kinds of questions are probably not what you generally get asked.
Thanks for your trust in my advise. First I must say this is taking longer and turning into what I would consider a billable consultation. I make videos for free and try to reply every comment. As my channel is growing now it makes it harder to reply everyone at all, especially in this much detail. I now have membership ability so if you find my videos helpful and want guaranteed free answers moving forward, please consider Joining th-cam.com/users/twinbytesincjoin With that said, yes it can backup anything you selection including all emails. No it can't do image/mirror backups with that software. Check out my video on Macrium Reflect.
Actually, Cobian has different ways of running. As a service, it won't backup shared folders. But if you change it to autostart and disable run as a service, you can backup shared folders.
Sorry, there was alot of areas that this would have become a much longer video but the short answer is you can include only certain files within the folder you have selected. It doesn't make alot of sense, but I prefer using an image backup which I have another video on for Macrium Reflect if you want to do a full image. Otherwise, best to learn by trial and error if you do a sample backup and see how it works to confirm if it is what you are expecting.
Sorry there was so much to cover and I tried to cover what I thought was most important without making the video too long. I could do another video explaining archiving.
Nice tutorial ... well scripted and demonstrated. BUT ... your presentation is marred by terrible voice over audio. Despite using a pop filter, you are speaking too close to the microphone and blowing right through the filter. Proximity effect is causing a low boom boom boom from plosives and a lot of sibilance from sss-es shhh shounds. This is very distracting and you would would MUCH more normal, natural, and pleasant if you just backed about 4-5 inches away from the microphone and spoke a few degrees off axis so the plosives and sibilants sort of glance off the mic, instead of being blown right into it. My credentials? I am a professional recordist and independent microphone product adviser and review to microphone and computer software vendors and programmers dealing with audio, especially computer audio and speech recognition applications for more than 2 decades. PULEEEZE ... just back up a little and stop speaking directly into the microphone. It will make you sound much better and get your message across without distracting extraneous sound. Good luck and be safe and healthy. JT
Thank you for your compliments and feedback. I agree and the problem is I'm very low spoken, so when I'm too far from the Mic, I can't be heard well. I will try for my next video and soon I'll be upgrading my mic again to address volume issues while far from Mic. The current Mic I have is useless if far from it.
@@TwinBytesInc - Roger all points. I might suggest the CAD Equitek E50 microphone which is clear and articulate and looks good. List price is $150, but B&H PhotoVideo occasionally sells it for $49.99, making it a real bargain for a 34mm true condenser. And yet, you have have a good voice, with sufficient volume. You could improve clarity and articulation, just adding 4-5 inches between you and the mic and speaking slightly off axis (maybe 20 degrees) which will minimize deep plosives, puffing, popping and sibilance. It would reduce excess bass caused by proximity effect - you want to sound natural - neither too much bass, nor thin and anemic by sitting too far away - just find the sweet spot between sounding full and maintaining clarity and articulation. Why do I make this suggestion: Contrary to the popular tune, speech communication is not "all about that bass." Nearly all speech intelligibility (your message) is conveyed from 500 to around 3500 Hz - which is why telephones, ham radios, military radios, etc., are limited to that range of frequencies. Bass below 400 Hz consumes a lot of speech energy, and conveys just 5% of speech intelligibility. While consuming less energy, frequencies higher than 3500 contain harmonics that sound good, but contribute very little to intelligibility. That is why paging and communications microphones are typically rated for 400 to 6000 Hz. Now, I am not suggesting your want communications grade audio, or that you restrict your message to a mere 3500 Hz - I am merely suggesting all that bass and proximity effect gets in the way of your message. A microphone with a response curve from 20 to 20,000 Hz is really ill advised doing voice overs,. That is why "vocal performance" microphones typically range from 80 to 13,000 Hz. I acknowledge some guys emulate Howard Sterns, adding compression and other processing, but they do not sound natural and articulate. YOU, however, seek to persuade and communicate a message. Why not tailor YOUR sound to achieve greatest clarity and persuasion? You have a good voice, with sufficient volume - I merely suggest a minor adjustment in tonality would go a long way toward improving your ability to convey a message. Listening to heavy bass is tiring, and distracting. So, maybe you try adding a little distance between you and the mic and see how that sounds. I am betting it will be a big improvement at no cost and better convey your message. It is not like you need a total makeover! And that is just my take - I will check back later to see what you come up with. Happy trails. JT
Thank you. I think for me, it will make a huge difference switching from my current Snowball USB microphone to almost any analogue mic. I'm looking to get one with volume control on the mic. it will make for a good review comparison.
Thanks for the honest feedback dude :) This video is 2 years old and I've changed since then. The mic was not picking up audio properly and I was holding off buying a new mic.
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Good presentation, I honestly do not know why someone would put a thumbs down on this!
Thank you for your kind words. That is strange, all my videos lately have had 100% Likes. Not sure why the thumbs down on this one. Although I'm getting alot more views that usual because this video is embedded in their website now and it could be a competitor.
Great tutorial. I've been using Cobian Backup for about a decade. I know it is discontinued so I searched for its successor and found out about Reflector. And immediately went to TH-cam to see how it looks like. I am pleased to see the GUI is pretty the same. :-) BTW this video is a year old and at the time of this video making the Cobian Reflector was available in version 0.9.50 beta. Right now I see version 2.3.7 on the Cobian website which is remarkable.
I currently use Cobian Backup 11 (Gravity) and it works without flaws. But right now I am doing compressed backup of my files and I noticed it only uses one core of my CPU. So I'm gonna give Reflector a shot and see if it uses better compression library that can use multi-core processing. :-)
Thank you for the compliments and taking time to write. Happy to hear your experience.
I have the same opinion. Do you know what is the main difference using both versions, because it looks pretty similar?
Thank you very much for this video, I like the way that you presented it making it easy for me to follow along.
I did not hear any audio problems as noted in other comments.
It was as advertised, you covered the the basics and I got the back up task started that meets my needs.
I also like the way you show the working screen which was very helpful when I was setting up my Task.
Thank you and Job Well Done.
Thank you for your kind words.
Thank you very much. You show it, how good tutorials can be made.
You are welcome! Thanks for the kind words.
👍 Thanks!
P.S. - As I read it, _Cobian Reflector_ is not a rebrand per se, but a _completely new backup program._ Being developed/written by the original author of _Cobian Backup_ program, which he _sold_ back in 2014. But, I suppose _rebrand_ does -kind of- work. ✌
You're welcome. It is a bit confusing because it's supposed to be a rebrand because he did sell Cobian Backup, however it's using the same website, by the same developer and links to the old software. But it's supposed to be a new program, and it looks exactly the same. Either way, I love the software.
@@TwinBytesInc Totally agree.
Great Daniel, this is a good video once again! Congratulations from Venezuela!
Muchas Gracias mi amigo. Thank you so much!
Suppose I want to back up certain folders on my Windows laptop and want to keep only the latest version of the folders, what would be the best way to use Cobian Reflect? In incremental mode? I would like deleted files to disappear from the back up as well! Should the first backup be done in incremental mode as well?
Differential or incremental will work for you, but there is no automatic deletion of files from a backup. There is no way to delete files from backup that were deleted from the computer. The point of backup is if something got deleted by accident or a virus or hacker, you don't want it deleted from the backup before you have a chance to recover it.
Thank you, Daniel. I found this helpful.
You're welcome. Glad it was helpful.
Very informative and simple yo understand, thanks!
You're welcome! Thanks for the compliments.
Merci M. Gauthier. Enfin une explication claire de cette dernière mouture de Cobian. Savez-vous si les Tasks de Cobian 11 peuvent être facilement importées dans CrReflector?
Vous êtes les bienvenus. Je ne me souviens pas si cela peut être fait, mais vous pouvez essayer de sauvegarder la liste et d'ouvrir/importer la liste dans Reflector.
buena tarde Daniel, he usado el programa y me parece excelente me a ayudado bastante, lo unico es que no me realiza la copia de la carpeta de onedrive por medio del cobian reflector en red, a que se debe esto o porque? que configuracion le debo realizar al cobian?
Gracias. Creo que lo tienes configurado para ejecutarse como un servicio. debería ejecutarse como inicio automático.
👍 Looks promising...
Quick Question:
1. Memory usage as a Service?
And yes, please do more in-depth video/s. 😍
Thank you. I haven't measured the service usage but I've never seen a problem in this regard worth investigating. I'll consider in depth videos in the future. Right now I'm trying to keep up with pumping out 2 videos a week after some major life and business changes. Next year will be a different story. :)
Hi, thanks for your video !!
I was trying to do a backup as you explained, from my Google Drive virtual drive to my D drive.
For some reason it failed.
Can you explain how to do it?
I'm unable to transfer Google Drive to drive D so it does not work.
So I have two questions.
1. Do you know if it is possible to transfer Google Drive to a normal drive or does it have to be on a virtual drive?
2. If it has to be virtual, is there a way to get around it and make a backup? Maybe in another software?
I would really love your help
You're welcome and thanks for your question. I have seen this issue before but haven't tried with Google drive in some time now. I believe the only files that won't copy from Google Drive are Google doc type files. Other files on Google drive should backup, but it will exclude the Google Doc type files. That's probably what you notice and the only way to backup those documents is using Google TakeOut, which I have a video on, or if you have the Google Business services, you can pay for Google Backup services.
@@TwinBytesInc Thanks for your answer.
I have no Google Doc files at all.
Unfortunately he does not agree to back up any file or folder because it is on a virtual drive .... and as I wrote there is no way to put Google Drive if it is not on a virtual drive.
Yes, you need the Google Drive app on your computer to have the drive to copy from and it should work. Some people will say you don't have to backup online storage, but if you get hacked and those files are delete or encrypted with encryption virus, and you don't have a backup, then you'll be out of luck there.
Super helpful video! Thanks for teaching this
You're very welcome!
Question, I have a network attached storage. Two hard drives to my routers and connect to them via windows explorer by typing \\192.168.x.x etc.. Not sure if I can set this up to work with those?
Yes, but must be setup for autostart, not run as a service.
HI DANIEL very good tutorial! when i setup the source drive what are the key items that should be backed up? i ran mine for the 1st time just using the c drive and it ran for 4 hours! Thanks in advance!
Thank you. The most important is in c:\%userprofile% but you can usually exclude c:\%userprofile%\AppData. Although there maybe some things inside that AppData folder such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Outlook to backup that maybe important to you.
@@TwinBytesInc Thank you! the subsequent backups incremental have run about 2hrs,would that be normal?
You're welcome. The time depends on how much you have to backup, how much has changed since last backup and what shape your drive is in. If incremental was 2 hours, how long was the first full backup? Must have been much longer.
@@TwinBytesInc The initial was about 4 hrs!
That sounds like it might be a little long but really depends on how much has changed since the last backup. Incremental should be a fraction of the time the full backup took. Not just half. I haven't tried incremental backups with this yet as I usually recommend full unless you don't have the time to run full every day.
I believe something is not right with this and not sure if it's a bug in the program or a misconfiguration on your side. Maybe someone else can comment on their experience here.
It is in Beta version though, so it's not expected to be perfect yet.
Hello Sir, I haven't found advanced setting on cobian reflector can you please share a link of that video
Hello, thanks for the suggestion. I haven't done a video on advanced settings yet that I remember. So I can look into it at some point.
I need some help: I need to migrate computers. I use reflector to backup stuff from our NAS to another backup drive in our network. If I change the computer from where reflector works will I have to make a whole new backup or will Reflector pick up where it left off? I see there is an option to export "lists", is this the way? Thanks!
Yes, export and import list. Sounds like that will work in your case.
Hello,
Why when backing up to two different locations, does Cobian re-compress the files instead of copying them?
Is there a forecast for Google Drive support?
I believe the compression only happens if you choose those options. I don't know about future support, I'm not the developer, but you can contact him at www.cobiansoft.com/about.html
I have a question Sir, how can I transfer backups I made using this software
If it wasn't encrypted you can just copy and paste from the backup device. if it was encrypted I believe I have another video on that th-cam.com/video/5S8cWMHdPjI/w-d-xo.html
Is there a simple way to clean up the safe mirror directory? I. e. say delete all files older than a certain date?
what I recommend is having more than one backup drive, so if something happens to one, you have the other. Then you can simply delete the one backup drive, take a new full backup, which you should do every so often anyway. Simple and clean. No complex settings.
Hello Sir, thank's for your video !! You can configuration for gmail (smtp, ports and SSL) to send report? If not, whats server u r using? tk u.
Yes you can definitely configure to send reports via Gmail, but because Gmail considers it a less secure app, you will need to create an app password for it. Then the other server settings you can easily find on a Google search.
Can you do a tutorial for a Cobina reflector restore of a differential backup please!
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try to get a video on that.
That would be great i am about to start the differential backup but want to be sure i understand the process of restoring the original back and then the differential backup to it@@TwinBytesInc
I have attempted to try to move windows to ssd and I’m not so sure what I have done wrong. Initially, my windows was downloaded in my C drive as I have not yet bought an ssd at the time of when I built my pc, it was only about a month ago that I bought my ssd as booting windows was really slow for me. From what I have read online, I needed to make a backup for my c drive just in case something went wrong when moving my Windows. I then cloned my C drive into the same drive since I had a little bit more than a whole TB left in my HDD. Looking back at it, I know for sure that is where I have gone wrong since I should have gotten like an external storage to put in my backup or something along the lines of that. For some reason, the cloning process took me over a day, I didn’t know if it was because of my slow hdd or it was because it was a little bit below 1tb to clone (the answer to that is probably simple, but I am new to this.) After the whole cloning process is done, I went to my Disk Management and couldn’t find my backup anywhere as I thought that that backup would have been in its separate column in my HDD. What can I do to fix it?
Thanks for your comment but I can't offer free troubleshooting here. if your existing drive still works, try cloning again. Don't just clone C drive through, there are hidden boot partitions. You need to clone the entire drive. The new SSD must be the same size as the old drive, or it won't fit. There are different methods you can use, they can all work. You can do it!
Is TLS 1.2 added?
When do You plan to release a final version?
Thank You!
Actually I can't tell what version TLS is used or when the next version is released, but another Beta came out just after I released this video. So you can check back on their website often to see what the current version is. You can always email the developer directly if you like to ask about things like the TLS version which is not visible in the program.
They do have a support forum as well at forum.cobiansoft.com/index.php
@@TwinBytesInc Thank You Daniel! Sorry, I was wrong as I thought You are the new developer.
No worries. I review many programs.
You can back the same file all over again right?
Yes
Thank you so much!
You're welcome
Thanks man !!
You're welcome.
can cogian reflector be downloaded to Windows 7 or only to Windows 7 SP1 ? I have Windows 7 do I need to download Cobian 11 (Gravity)?
I haven't tried on Windows 7 as it's not recommended anyone should be using Windows 7 anymore, although it does support Windows 7 with SP1. Otherwise you could download the previous version like you mentioned.
@@TwinBytesInc Thanks. I will do that. I'm an older person and didn't upgrade to Windows 10 because I didn't want to have to spend the time learning to handle it. I'm an artist and would sooner be spending as much time as possible painting. I assume much of what one does with installing and setting up Reflector to use (as in this tutorial) is the same for the Cobian 11? And thank you for the tutorial. Its pretty easy to follow - even for a low tech guy such as myself. :)
Thank you for your kind words and taking time to comment. Yes, the Cobian Reflector is almost identical to the older Cobian Backup. I understand your hesitant to upgrade to Windows 10 as well, but other than the start menu, all your programs look and run the same as they do on Windows 7. All your icons to those programs on your desktop are still there. It's really the start menu and control panel options that would be different. It's not as much of a change as most people think. But have a look at my videos on Windows 10 and see for yourself and you can decide.
@@TwinBytesInc thank you. What I meant to ask was if watching the Reflector video will give me pretty much what I need to know to download Cobian 11 and set it up to work for me? With Windows 7 it seems that Refletor won't work for me so I have to go for Cobian 11 at the present time. I use to have Cobian before it was sold. All I knew is that it suddenly stopped working. I've never replaced it with a back-up program and when I try to back up through Windows I can't do so (get something like 'Task Manager' is corrupted' - or something like that) so I have to download something to back-up my computer pretty quick ( haven't done so since Cobian was sold) and knew the old Cobian, and it was real simple for my simple needs, so thought this would be a good choice. I do have a couple questions due to my lack of knowledge that you may be able to help me with - do these programs back up all the files I have set up in my Thunderbird Email program (the mail originally comes through Gmail to Thunderbird) when it copies 'all of my files'? Secondly - does this program do a Mirror image and is that needed by someone like me who is not a 'company' and probably doesn't use my computer that much compared to most folks... ie, no gaming, next to no aps, but quite a few files of photos of my art and refererence photos for painting from and the numerous other files with information collected over the years. I have 338 GB free of 465GB on my Local Disk (C:) so I guess I'm not using much 'space'. I will be saving a full copy to a 500 GB Toshiba removable drive (or whatever its called) and deleting older copies when I need to do so to make room for newer ones. I will probably run the backup once a month or so. My apologies if this is taking up too much of your time and I appreciate any time you may have but understand if you don't. After all, these kinds of questions are probably not what you generally get asked.
Thanks for your trust in my advise. First I must say this is taking longer and turning into what I would consider a billable consultation. I make videos for free and try to reply every comment. As my channel is growing now it makes it harder to reply everyone at all, especially in this much detail. I now have membership ability so if you find my videos helpful and want guaranteed free answers moving forward, please consider Joining th-cam.com/users/twinbytesincjoin
With that said, yes it can backup anything you selection including all emails. No it can't do image/mirror backups with that software. Check out my video on Macrium Reflect.
great video, might wanna move your microphone back a bit though
Thanks and thank you for the tip.
I have three computers, Cobian does not backup shared folders.
Actually, Cobian has different ways of running. As a service, it won't backup shared folders. But if you change it to autostart and disable run as a service, you can backup shared folders.
you do not explain how "filter include ONLY theses files". thanks
Sorry, there was alot of areas that this would have become a much longer video but the short answer is you can include only certain files within the folder you have selected. It doesn't make alot of sense, but I prefer using an image backup which I have another video on for Macrium Reflect if you want to do a full image. Otherwise, best to learn by trial and error if you do a sample backup and see how it works to confirm if it is what you are expecting.
Version française SVP ??
désolé, mon français n'est pas assez bon
why did you skip over archive feature very annoying
Sorry there was so much to cover and I tried to cover what I thought was most important without making the video too long. I could do another video explaining archiving.
Nice tutorial ... well scripted and demonstrated. BUT ... your presentation is marred by terrible voice over audio. Despite using a pop filter, you are speaking too close to the microphone and blowing right through the filter. Proximity effect is causing a low boom boom boom from plosives and a lot of sibilance from sss-es shhh shounds. This is very distracting and you would would MUCH more normal, natural, and pleasant if you just backed about 4-5 inches away from the microphone and spoke a few degrees off axis so the plosives and sibilants sort of glance off the mic, instead of being blown right into it. My credentials? I am a professional recordist and independent microphone product adviser and review to microphone and computer software vendors and programmers dealing with audio, especially computer audio and speech recognition applications for more than 2 decades. PULEEEZE ... just back up a little and stop speaking directly into the microphone. It will make you sound much better and get your message across without distracting extraneous sound. Good luck and be safe and healthy. JT
Thank you for your compliments and feedback. I agree and the problem is I'm very low spoken, so when I'm too far from the Mic, I can't be heard well. I will try for my next video and soon I'll be upgrading my mic again to address volume issues while far from Mic. The current Mic I have is useless if far from it.
@@TwinBytesInc - Roger all points. I might suggest the CAD Equitek E50 microphone which is clear and articulate and looks good. List price is $150, but B&H PhotoVideo occasionally sells it for $49.99, making it a real bargain for a 34mm true condenser.
And yet, you have have a good voice, with sufficient volume. You could improve clarity and articulation, just adding 4-5 inches between you and the mic and speaking slightly off axis (maybe 20 degrees) which will minimize deep plosives, puffing, popping and sibilance. It would reduce excess bass caused by proximity effect - you want to sound natural - neither too much bass, nor thin and anemic by sitting too far away - just find the sweet spot between sounding full and maintaining clarity and articulation. Why do I make this suggestion: Contrary to the popular tune, speech communication is not "all about that bass." Nearly all speech intelligibility (your message) is conveyed from 500 to around 3500 Hz - which is why telephones, ham radios, military radios, etc., are limited to that range of frequencies. Bass below 400 Hz consumes a lot of speech energy, and conveys just 5% of speech intelligibility. While consuming less energy, frequencies higher than 3500 contain harmonics that sound good, but contribute very little to intelligibility. That is why paging and communications microphones are typically rated for 400 to 6000 Hz. Now, I am not suggesting your want communications grade audio, or that you restrict your message to a mere 3500 Hz - I am merely suggesting all that bass and proximity effect gets in the way of your message. A microphone with a response curve from 20 to 20,000 Hz is really ill advised doing voice overs,. That is why "vocal performance" microphones typically range from 80 to 13,000 Hz. I acknowledge some guys emulate Howard Sterns, adding compression and other processing, but they do not sound natural and articulate. YOU, however, seek to persuade and communicate a message. Why not tailor YOUR sound to achieve greatest clarity and persuasion? You have a good voice, with sufficient volume - I merely suggest a minor adjustment in tonality would go a long way toward improving your ability to convey a message. Listening to heavy bass is tiring, and distracting. So, maybe you try adding a little distance between you and the mic and see how that sounds. I am betting it will be a big improvement at no cost and better convey your message. It is not like you need a total makeover! And that is just my take - I will check back later to see what you come up with. Happy trails. JT
Thank you. I think for me, it will make a huge difference switching from my current Snowball USB microphone to almost any analogue mic. I'm looking to get one with volume control on the mic. it will make for a good review comparison.
Dude, get the mic out of your face.
Thanks for the honest feedback dude :) This video is 2 years old and I've changed since then. The mic was not picking up audio properly and I was holding off buying a new mic.