Where it goes
Your disk. Your drive. Your NAS. Your bucket.
Every destination is one you already own. Your files never go to Genie9.
Anywhere you own.
In the app: This PC or USB, a network share, or S3-compatible cloud.
This PC
Any internal disk or folder.
USB drive
Under This PC. Found by the drive, not its letter.
NAS
Any \\server\share.
S3 cloud
Your own bucket, in your own account.
This PC and USB
The drive in the drawer.
Unplug it and put it away. A copy that is not connected can’t be encrypted by ransomware.
Internal disks, USB hard disks, SSDs and sticks. Read back after every run.
New letter. Same backup.
A USB drive is recognised by its volume serial, not the letter Windows gives it.
Monday
E:\Backups
The job runs.
Tuesday
F:\Backups
Same drive, new letter. The job runs.
Another PC
D:\Backups
Open the folder. Every set restores.
Network and NAS · Home
Any \\server\share.
Type the share, test it, and the job reaches it every run.
- Credentials saved once, sealed on this PC
- Never written into a job or an export
- Map a drive letter for the length of a run
- A share that stops answering is waited for
S3-compatible · Pro
Your bucket. Your account.
Choose the storage class. Add the provider’s encryption, with or without the job’s AES-256.
S3 only: no SFTP or WebDAV. Every run is read back and checked here too; on S3 that is a full download, which some providers bill.
Second copy · Home
Two copies. Two places.
Each backup can copy itself to a second drive, a NAS or an S3 bucket when it finishes, so one lost disk is never the only one.
Copied as stored
Compressed and encrypted as the backup is. Your files are not read again.
It waits for the drive
A copy drive that is not plugged in gets the copy when it is back.
Restore from either
Restore shows where each point is held. Either one restores alone.
Its own report
Every copy has a line in Activity and a report of its own.
One second copy per job, made after the backup and read back. A drive or a NAS in Home; an S3 bucket too in Pro. After 14 days without a copy, Home says so.
Checked before it writes.
Six guards, from free space to the wrong disk.
Free space
Measured against the backup when you pick the drive.
Drive check
A missing drive is flagged ten minutes before a run.
FAT32 and cloud drives
The 4 GB file limit and cloud-sync drives are flagged.
Inside a source
A folder backed up into itself is caught.
Same disk as Windows
A backup on the disk it protects is flagged.
Wrong drive on E:?
It won’t write to a different disk.
Start with the drive you have.
Disk and USB in Free. NAS and a second copy in Home. S3 in Pro.