The File Merge and File Extract Utilities

Along with this backup tool, two add-on features are included: File Merge and File Extract.

The two purposes of using File Merge:

1. To combine files in different folders into one.
2. To transfer back-upped files to a different system.

1. To merge files in multiple folders in one folder browse to add the folders you want to merge, and select or type the target folder. The target folder can be an existing or non-existing folder. EzOpenBackup will create the folder if it does not already exist. However, the "drive" that is to be holding the target folder must be previously existing.
   
   
2. When used to transfer files from one location to another (most often to an external, removeable drive device), File Merge can be especially useful because of its designed efficiency: only the modified files will be copied to the target folder.
   

   There are three modes for overwrite:

   • Overwrite files if the source files have a newer date/time - With this selection, the existing file will be replcaed by the newer file if the existing file's date and time is older than that of the new file's.
     
   • Rename file if the same file name has already existed - With this selection, the new file will be assigned a different name before copied into the target folder if the name of the new file matches a file name already in the target folder.
     
   • Always overwrite files - With this selection, all new files will be copied to the target folder without any kind of checking.
     

   And two structure mode: See examples for file merge

   • Maintain original directory structure - This selection makes it easier to recover an entire folder of files: you can simply replace the corrupted folder with the back-upped folder, and all will be restored.
     
   • One level directory structure - If the recovery of files is your main concern, by putting everything in one folder may make it easier to find the file when needed.
     

The File extract utility is to help you to extract the files in the backup folder with multiple versions to a different location so that more versions of the developmental files can be documented.

The key for File extract is in the number of version to be copied out from the back-upped folder.

For example, in your backup setup, five versions of files are to be kept in the target folder. If you set the File Extrat to "keep the last one version in the back-upped folder, then versions 1,2,3 and 4 are to be copied out, and left the last version: version 5 in the back-upped folder. The backup process will then take version 5 as the first version in the backup folder and continueing its work to add versions up to five again.

For File extract, you can also choose to keep the original file structure or copy all files into one folder. See examples