Are you really sure you can restore data created with your computer backup software?
Small business people need a working data backup strategy as the value of their businesses are more and more found stored on their computers.
Business contacts, PowerPoint presentations, contracts, emails, client databases and text documents are all vital information for individuals who perform business using their computers.
Bad thing do happen!
Are you sure you can restore your data from your computer backup correctly and can you be back in business fast?
Do you have a working backup strategy which is adapted to your business?
Let’s look at what can happen!
There are three different scenarios to consider here.
1. Specific files…
Windows Built-In Backup Utility
Windows XP Professional: Use the built-in Backup utility
If you use Windows XP Professional, you can use the built-in Backup utility to help you make copies of files, settings, or everything on your computer.
You can schedule the utility to back up certain files on a regular basis.
To start using the Backup utility:
- Click Start, and point to All Programs.
- Point to Accessories, and then point to System Tools.
- Click Backup.
If you’ve never used the Backup utility, the first screen you will see is the Backup or Restore Wizard welcome window.
Click Next and follow the instructions on the wizard.
Windows XP…
Tips For Windows Backup
There are many ways to lose information from a computer: A child playing the keyboard like a piano, a power surge, lightning, floods, and sometimes equipment just fails. If you regularly make backup copies of your files and keep them in a separate place, you can get some, if not all, of your information back if something happens to the originals on your computer.
What to back up
Back up anything you cannot replace easily. Here are some suggestions to get you started:
- Bank records and other financial information
- Digital photographs
- Software you purchased and downloaded from the Internet
- Music you purchased…
Importance Of Backup
Why should you back up?
You have valuable material on your computer. Pictures and videos, email addresses and phone numbers, bank account information, and silly sentimental things. And they all live on your hard drive.
It’s convenient, but it also exposes a lot of important things to loss in the same accident. This is why you should back up your hard drive.
How likely are you ever to lose any data?
According to various studies, 6% of computer users lose some of their data in any given year. That’s one out of every seventeen computers. Which seems fine . . . until that…
How to Back Up a Hard Drive?
It’s important to back up your critical files on at least a weekly basis. The following explains how to install and run Microsoft’s built-in Backup utility in Windows XP
- Insert your Windows XP CD into the drive and double click it when it pops up on your desktop.
- In Windows Explorer, double-click the ValueAdd folder, then Msft, and then Ntbackup.
- Double-click Ntbackup.msi to install the Backup utility.
- Click Backup to run Microsoft’s Backup program.
How to Run the Backup Utility
- Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Backup to start the wizard.
- Click “Next” to skip past the…
