For advanced users, there are many additional options available in the Advanced panel. The first Advanced sub-panel is "General options". It will look like the following:
Save full path information
By default checked, the full path of the folder is added to the backup, including the root folders.
If you have selected to back up "Third folder", and the full path of this folder is „C:\First folder\Second folder\Third folder", then without this option checked, your backup file contains files and sub folders of „Third folder" only. In the backup file there will be no information about „First folder" and "Second folder". If you restore this backup, you have to specify the folder where the files and sub folders will be restored to.
If the option is checked, the full path information will be stored, including the folders „First folder" and "Second folder", though you only selected "Third folder" to be included. Please note, that this will store only the structure of root folders and not their files nor other sub folders. If you restore this backup, you have to select just the drive root where you would like to restore the backup (in this case „C:\"). All the files will be restored to their original locations then.
Split the backup
If the backup file is too large, you can split the file. For example, if the backup is 3 GB in size and you would like to burn it to the CD, then it just doesn't fit there. Though the file size is OK for DVD discs, its not acceptable if you want to burn the backup to CD discs. In this case, you can set this option to split the file and enter the maximum part size in megabytes (for example, 700 MB).
Disable ZIP compression
Selected folders can also be copied without compressing them to the ZIP file. This way you can keep a full duplication of your data on another location.
Hide backup progress window
This option is available in the Professional version only. When checked, you will not see the backup progress window at the time the backup is created. The program will make the backup from this task silently.
Compression level
Compression level for each backup task can be changed also. As "Normal compression" is optimal for most cases, it is set to default. If you have powerful computer and you prefer having the smallest backups in size, you can switch this option to "Max compression", though creating these backups will take more time and requires more processor usage. "Fast compression" can be useful if you are backing up photos. Photos are already compressed in most cases and so the normal or max compression takes just too much time analyzing and compressing them with little effect. If you select "No compression", then files are still in the zip file, but they are uncompressed there. The difference with disabling zip compression is that with "no compression" all your data is in one file, thus it is easier to manage it (copy, burn, etc)..
Backup process priority
This option is available in the Professional version only. It allows you to select Windows based priorities for CPU-usage in making backups from this task. The default priority is Normal, meaning the task has no special resource needs and the processor power is divided equally between other programs. Low priority means that the backup process will only use the resources other programs are not using. High priority is time-critical task for Windows and means that all possible power of the CPU is available for this process and all other programs will get less resources.
Make the backup on program startup
If this option is checked, the program will make a backup from this task every time the program is started.
Make the backup right before
This option is available in the Professional version only. When checked, the program will make a backup automatically each time the computer is turned off, logged off, or switched to the stand-by mode. Soon the program detects any Windows closing, it will pause that and perform the backup. After the backup is done, the program resumes the Windows closing.
Turn off the computer after the backup is completed
This option is available in the Professional version only. It allows you to turn off the computer after the backup of this task is created. Of course, when you have other backup tasks scheduled, those schedules can't be started. So it's important to enable this option only for the task you are performing the last.