1. Sign in to your BackupGuru  Intelligent online account.
   

   If you do not have an account yet, feel free to Sign Up for a trial one now, so you can try it out.

2. From the Dashboard click on Download BackupGuru Intelligent button in order to download the setup file of BackupGuru on your machine.
   
3. Run the downloaded setup file and follow the onscreen steps in the installation wizard.
4. Once BackupGuru Intelligent desktop client is installed, it will ask you to enter your account credentials. Please do.
5. Select the data that you want to back up. You will have three tabs to select from:
   • Smart Selection: Contains various built-in plugins that you can use to backup some of the most important items on your computer.
     
   • My Computer: Allows you to backup files and folders from any location easily accessible from My Computer using an easy to use Windows Explorer-like interface.
   • Cold Storage: Extremely low-cost storage that provides an optimal, secure, and reliable storage solution for data that is rarely accessed. The difference between Cold Storage and Instant Storage is, data takes 3-5 hours to be restored.
6. Select the files you want to backup using OCR.
   
7. Specify your backup settings:
   • Run on Schedule: Set how often you wish BackupGuru to backup your files.
   • Bandwidth Throttling: Enable this option to limit the upload bandwidth allowed for BackupGuru to use, this option will NOT give the full speed potential of BackupGuru, but if you can enable it if you wish to upload files or use your upload bandwidth with other Tools/Programs.
   • Hybrid+: BackupGuru Hybrid+ doubles your backup protection by creating a copy of every backed up file to a local server, external or network drive; ensuring faster recovery when needed.
     

If there is a policy assigned to the user that you are installing BackupGuru on his/her machine, then once you install the setup file and sign in to the user’s account, the backup will start automatically without the need to configure it manually.