FF 4.0 : How to make a backup of folders with the new filter manager ?

With the new Filter Manager of FF 4.0, the custom folders and custom favorites can be put if wanted outside of the FF 4.0 original storage, and they are real physical folders

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Filter Manager Help Page important: Storage folders correspond to real, physical folders on your drive. For example, if you create a subfolder under a storage folder within Filter Forge, it will also be created at its physical location on your drive. Basically, Filter Forge becomes a file manager for these folders. When you change the location of a storage folder, Filter Forge migrates all its physical contents to the new location.

So, I want to ask how do you make a backup of the folders with this new filter manager, I mean if it I only have to copy all the newly created custom and favorites folders to another drive and then if something happens just put them back in the same place?

And what happens if I have to reinstall FF 4.0 from zero because I had an error in the computer?

How would I "import", load or tell filter forge to use all those custom folders I have made before? I mean how to restore the custom and favorites folders.

How does recognise FF the external folders?

WANT TO MAKE BACKUP IN PREVENTION OF POSSIBLE BUGS

I am afraid that as it seems that the new filter manager may not be bug free and not very safe, I want to make a backup of all the work I could make organizing so if something bad may happen I could have a copy and do not loose all the work organizing the filters as it happened already to Sharandra as shown here

And as I have already put in this other thread

Is it safe and sure to begin creating our own folders without bugs?

Thanks for the information for having a full backup, but what I want is to make a simple backup of only the custom and favorites filters, but anyway I will see how your suggestion of Shadow Copy works and how I can use it, and if this could solve this.

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Skybase I mean... the simplest after all is just copy-n-pasting the entire directory to a separate folder on a separate drive. When something terrible happens you can always just revert back to whatever version of that director you had. Here's my point: that's simple and it works.

Sorry, but this will ONLY work if the new custom and favorites folders are stored inside the Filter Forge default location and not outside in another different hard drive, unless filter forge registers exactly inside the library files where is located externally the folders AND then if youy uninstall everything and install again and put back the same folders in the same places FF will keep recognizing them.

But this is only in case of total disaster, so while FF works right I think that copying the whole FF 4 folder inside %appdata% and then making a copy of all the custom and favorites custom folders (IF they are put externally of this folder) is the best way to make INDIVIDUAL backup of FF.

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A full disk backup is already a 100% solution. You can't beat having a separate drive continuously archive versions of your entire drive every hour.

Of course that making a full diskk and drive backup is the best solution and you can´t beat that, but this have it´s own advantages and disadvantages that I will not enter now

By the way the best FULL drive and whole backup software and most safe, secure, well done and that works very well in any case it may happen even with broken computer is Shadow Protect although is only for WIndows

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By the way they seemed to have changed the name of ShadowCopy to File History in Windows 8. I'm no expert with Windows so I can't tell too much more but system wide backups are an available feature.

Yes, is true I have just changed from Windows 7 to Windows 8 just 3 days ago, and I have found that there is no Shadow Copy in Windows 8 and it was replaced by the new File History that according to some comments it seems to be more like the Mac Time Machine

Windows 8: File History is the new, new Volume Shadow Copy