Introduction
If you have upgraded your Polarbackup account but do not see the changes reflected on the desktop application, follow these steps to update your account information immediately on your desktop application.
For Windows Desktop Application
Open the Polarbackup desktop app...
SYMPTOMS
Cannot authenticate Polarbackup desktop software on a Windows Server platform. Because of this, Polarbackup software is not opening or running.
CAUSE
The user account or the group to which it belongs to is not part of the Log on as a batch job local security policy for a worksp...
This message will be shown by the Polarbackup desktop client in the following two cases:
Case 1: You are a Home user
Home users are not allowed to backup Windows servers. This feature is available only for Business subscribers.
For more information about the differences between the Home and the...
This message will appear if you are trying to open Polarbackup desktop software while you are logged into another Windows user account, not the same administrator Windows user account you were logged into it when you installed Polarbackup software on this machine in the first place.
However, even...
The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is a set of COM APIs that implements a framework to allow volume backups to be performed while applications on a system continue to write to the volumes.
If this service is not running on your machine, Polarbackup will fail to back up your opened and locked fi...
Description
Upon installing the Polarbackup desktop client on your machine and entering your Polarbackup account’s credentials, Polarbackup will check how many active backups you currently have under your Polarbackup username, in order to make sure that you do not exceed the allowed limit, which is...
Introduction
Polarbackup offers continuous data protection (CDP) through customizable scheduling settings. (Learn more)
However, missed scheduled backups can pose a challenge. When a scheduled backup is missed, Polarbackup automatically postpones it to the next scheduled interval. For ...
Sign into your Polarbackup online account.
From the Dashboard page, click on the Download Polarbackup button. In this way, you will be downloading the latest setup file of Polarbackup.
Once the download completes, run the downloaded setup file and select the Repair/Update Polarbackup o...
When you schedule Polarbackup to run the backup at a certain time, your machine should be awake in order for the backup to take place. If your machine is in sleep mode at the time of the backup, Polarbackup will not be able to run it and will postpone the backup until the next scheduled time.
Non...
This is due to the fact that you did not purchase Cold Storage. To do that:
Sign in to your Polarbackup account.
Click on Upgrade.
Determine the amount of Cold Storage that you wish to purchase.
Click Checkout and your account will upgrade instantly.