### Backing Up Settings

You can easily create a backup of your settings by clicking the Backup button. The Settings Editor displays the Backup dialog box. Simply define the location and filename for the backup .zip file, and what you want included, and click OK.

Backup dialog box

File - This defines the full pathway to the .zip file that will contain the backup. The ... button displays a Save As dialog box allowing you to choose the directory and the filename for the backup. Unless you mark some check boxes in the Options area, the only thing in the backup is a version.dat file with version information on Datapage+ and its related products.

Options - This area lets you specify exactly what ends up in your backup. It contains these items:

- System Files - This includes system files in the backup. These system files include a sys directory containing a log file, and xml files containing some global settings.

- Registry Settings - This includes an export of the settings for the Product list as a registry.dat xml file.

- *.* - This lets you include one or more files from a single directory. When you mark this check box, the ... button in the box beneath it becomes available for use; it displays an Open dialog box so you can navigate to a directory and choose additional files to include. You can hold down the Ctrl key when selecting files to include multiple files before clicking Open.

- *.mdf - This lets you include an *.mdf database file in the backup. When you mark this check box, the ... button in the box beneath it becomes available for use; it displays an Open dialog box so you can navigate to a directory and choose the .mdf file to include.

Email - This opens the Email Configuration dialog box. Once you properly configure the email settings, whenever you create a backup file, the Settings Editor will also send the backup file to the specified email address or addresses.

Email Configuration

- SMTP Server: This defines the mail server to use for sending the email message.

- Port: Defines the server port to use for outgoing messages.

- Email Address: This is the email address that will appear in the generated email message's From field.

- Password: This defines the password to access the SMTP server.

- Require log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA): Mark this check box if your SMTP server uses the SPA protocol.

- Email to: This defines the main recipient's email address.

- cc: This defines an alternate recipient email address to receive a copy of the email message.

- Subject: This defines the text that appears in the email message's subject field.

- Header: This defines the initial body text of the generated email text that appears before any other reported information.