Tutorials
Short, specific walkthroughs — most under five minutes. Start at the top if BackupKit is new to you; otherwise jump to the one you need.
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Here's what's coming. In the meantime the written guides cover the same ground — and if you're stuck on something specific, ask and it'll likely become one of these.
Getting started
Your first backup in 3 minutes
Install BackupKit, pick a folder, choose where it goes, and let it run. The whole loop, start to finish.
Connecting a storage
Adding Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, an FTP server or a NAS — what each one asks for and where to find it.
Setting a schedule
Daily, weekly, monthly or on a fixed date — and what happens to a scheduled run when the PC is asleep.
Everyday use
Restoring from a backup
Browsing a snapshot, pulling back a single file, and restoring a whole folder to a new location.
Reading the activity log
What ran while you were away, why a run failed, and how to scope the log to a single run.
Notifications that actually reach you
Email, Telegram and webhook alerts — and how to be told about failures only.
Retention: keeping the right number of copies
Keep-last-N versus keep-N-days, what retention deletes, and what it never touches.
Going further
Encrypting a backup
Password-protecting an archive so what lands in the cloud is unreadable without your key.
Compression and archive options
When zipping a backup pays for itself, and when it costs you a restore.
Backing up a NAS to the cloud
Pointing BackupKit at a Synology, QNAP or plain network share and pushing it off-site.
S3, B2, Wasabi and R2
Buckets, access keys and regions — getting an object-storage target set up correctly the first time.
The 3-2-1 rule, in practice
Wiring up three copies on two kinds of media with one off-site, using jobs you can actually maintain.
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