- Overview
- Registering for Service
- Managing Your Secure Backup and Share Account
- Accessing Comcast Vault Using a Web Browser
- Forgetting a Password
- Managing My User Accounts
- Accessing Manage My User Accounts
- Adding a Vault Website
- Changing a Password
- Importing Contacts
- Changing Space Allocation
- Adding a Secondary User
- Deleting a User
- Adding a Computer
- Deleting a Computer
- Suspending a Computer
- Activating a Suspended Computer
- Replacing a Computer
- Managing My Monthly Email Subscription
- Managing Plan and Payment Options
- Understanding the Secure Backup and Share Monthly Usage Report
- Upgrading or Downgrading Your Service
- Installing Secure Backup and Share Desktop Client
- Using the Settings Window
- The Status Window
- Restoring Files from the Client
- Comcast Vault Overview
- Accessing Comcast Vault
- Using Comcast Vault
- Searching for Files
- Sorting Files With Views
- Creating a File Collection
- Creating a Photo Album
- Creating a Music Playlist
- Playing Music from Your Playlists
- Playing Photos as a Slideshow
- Customizing the Home Page Slideshow
- Adding Items to a Collection, Album, or Playlist
- Removing Items From a Collection, Album, or Playlist
- Creating a Smart Collection, Album, or Playlist
- Reordering and Sorting File Views
- Deleting a File Collection, Photo Album, or Playlist
- Editing File Properties
- Previewing a File, Collection, Photo Album, or Playlist
- Using File Views
- Editing Information About Collections, Albums, and Playlists
- Enabling Internet Access to Files You Choose
- Disabling Internet Access to Files You Choose
- Having Your Friends Subscribe to Your RSS Feeds
- Downloading a File
- Hiding Files
- Unhiding Files
- Tagging Files
- Using the Address Book
- Sharing Your Files
- Setting Access Permissions for Your Files
- Sharing Files Over Email
- Sharing a File Using a Secure Web Link
- Using Views to Create and Share Smart Collections, Albums, and Playlists
- Using Search Criteria to Create and Share Smart Collections, Albums, and Playlists
- Attaching Files in Emails
- Publishing Photo Albums to Facebook
- Using Comcast Vault On Mobile Devices
- Uploading Files
- Changing Account Settings
- Copyright Infringement
- Secure Backup and Share
- Secure Backup and Share Basics
- What's so special about Secure Backup and Share?
- How do I use Secure Backup and Share?
- Which operating systems does Secure Backup and Share support?
- How does Comcast respect my privacy?
- Are there any file types or sizes that I can't back up?
- Will Secure Backup and Share back up everything?
- How does Secure Backup and Share protect my data?
- How often can I restore my data?
- Does Secure Backup and Share support external drives?
- What happens if I delete a file accidentally?
- Technical
- Registration
- What is Secure Backup and Share?
- Why should I download the Secure Backup and Share desktop application to my computer(s)?
- If I don't have Comcast High-Speed Internet can I still have Secure Backup and Share?
- Is this product available to commercial customers?
- Does my password for comcast.net get me access to my Comcast Vault?
- How can I change my Comcast Vault password?
- Once I purchase Comcast High-Speed Internet, how do I get Secure Backup and Share?
- How many users can I have on my Secure Backup and Share account?
- How many computers can each user have?
- Do I have to be the primary account holder to use Secure Backup and Share?
- Is my data secure?
- What is the Comcast Vault?
- How do I access my Comcast Vault site?
- How much does it cost?
- If I want a purchase a 50 or 200 GB storage option, how do I pay?
- How am I billed?
- What will appear on my credit card statement?
- Account Management
- How do I get to Secure Backup and Share user account or plan and paymenet management?
- I forgot my Comcast Vault address. How do I find out what it is?
- What happens if I forget my password?
- I am unable to log in to my Comcast Vault site. What should I do?
- How do I add a user?
- How do I delete a user?
- How do I add a computer?
- How do I delete a computer?
- How do I suspend a computer?
- How do I activate a suspended computer?
- How do I replace a computer?
- How do I change my credit card information?
- How do I change my Secure Backup and Share email address?
- How many Secondary Users can I add?
- Can Secondary Users create other users?
- Can a Secondary User add another computer?
- Can a Secondary User change the space allocated to their computer?
- How do I change the space that I allocated to a computer?
- How do I import my contacts?
- From where does the application import my contacts?
- Are my Comcast Vaultcontacts automatically updated when I add or change contacts in my Universal Address Book?
- Can I back up more than one computer using Secure Backup and Share?
- Why is my account suspended?
- Can I access my files if my account is suspended?
- Will I lose my files if my account has been suspended?
- What happens if I lose my computer and want to restore previously backed up files to a new computer?
- Can a Primary Account Holder suspend a Secondary User?
- If I discontinue my service with Comcast, can I continue using Comcast Vault?
- How do I cancel my Secure Backup and Share account?
- What is the refund policy for Secure Backup and Share?
- Secure Backup and Share Desktop Client Desktop Application
- Configuring Secure Backup and Share
- I registered, but I never got a confirmation email.
- Can I use Secure Backup and Share if I am behind an HTTPS proxy?
- What happens if I delete a file marked for backup?
- Why are green check marks appearing on my file and folder icons?
- What do the symbol overlays on my file icons mean?
- How do I remove the green check marks appearing on my data files?
- Why can't I find my Program Files or Windows folders in my Secure Backup and Share Configuration?
- Can I uninstall and reinstall Secure Backup and Share without affecting the backup sets I already have?
- Backing Up
- Which files should I back up?
- How long does it take to back up?
- Will subsequent backups take as long as the first?
- My backup stopped and when I restarted it, it started over again. Why?
- How can I view backup status?
- Why has Secure Backup and Share stopped performing backups?
- What if I lose my connection to Secure Backup and Share during a backup?
- How do I delete old backups?
- Restoring
- Performance
- Why does Secure Backup and Share show a different quota on the website than it does in the client?
- Secure Backup and Share seems to bog down my system. Is there a way to fix this?
- The Start Backup button is grayed out. How do I start my backup?
- What does reticulating splines mean?
- Why do I keep getting a ConnectionError1?
- I installed or upgraded Secure Backup and Share and everything stopped working.
- Configuring Secure Backup and Share
- Secure Backup and Share Basics
- Comcast Vault Web Application
- Comcast Vault Basics
- Is my data available all the time?
- Why do I get a Comcast Vault website cannot be opened message when I try to sign in to Comcast Vault?
- What kind of security does Comcast Vault offer?
- What are the various ways of accessing my Secure Backup and Share backup data?
- What Web browsers does Comcast Vault support?
- How do I access my Comcast Vault through a Web browser?
- How do I access my Comcast Vault using a mobile device?
- What mobile phones are compatible for Comcast Vault?
- Can I upload files directly to my Comcast Vault account?
- What is the maximum attachment size when I send a file by email?
- Can I attach an entire collection, photo album, or playlist and email it to my contacts?
- Can I play music in Comcast Vault while organizing my files and photos?
- How long does Comcast Vault keep a version of a file?
- Can I use files in my Secure Backup and Share backup set to create a smart collection?
- What happens to my files when I delete a collection, photo album, or playlist?
- How do I prevent some photos from appearing on the Photos page?
- How do I disable a secure link that I have shared with my contacts?
- Account Management
- Sharing Data
- Setting Access Permissions for Your Files
- Sharing a Collection, Photo Album, or Playlist
- Sharing Files, Photos, or Music Files
- Sharing a File Using a Secure Web Link
- Using Views to Create and Share Smart Collections, Albums, and Playlists
- Using Search Criteria to Create and Share Smart Collections, Albums, and Playlists
- Attaching Files in Emails
- What types of files can I not share?
- Troubleshooting
- I backed up files using Secure Backup and Share just now, but I do not see them in my Comcast Vault account. Why?
- Why have some of my files disappeared after a routine Secure Backup and Share backup process?
- Why is the last backup time shown in Comcast Vault different from the last backup time shown in Secure Backup and Share?
- I have backed up photos using Secure Backup and Share, but I cannot see them on the Photos page. What do I do?
- Why do some of my photos have an incorrect date?
- Why am I unable to preview my files?
- Why does a song repeat playing when I enable the Shuffle feature on the Music page?
- Why doesn't Comcast Vault display all my music files on the Music page?
- Why can't I see a preview pane on the Music page?
- Why can't I find a file when I search for it by name?
- Why can't I access my Comcast Vault using my BlackBerry?
- Comcast Vault Basics
- How do I contact support?
Getting Started
This topic describes how to log in as the primary account holder and how to accept the Terms of Service for Secure Backup and Share.
- In your browser's address bar, type http://comcast.net/backup, press Enter, then click Sign In. The Sign-In to Comcast page appears.
- Click Get It Now. The Secure Backup and Share Welcome Page appears with a brief description of the steps to follow.
Parent topic: Registering for Service