How To Create Backups

Backing up data has become the golden rule in the computer world. You need to backup data once in a day to avoid panics at the time of data loss. Data backups, hard drive backups, email backups prove beneficial when you lose some important data. In such case you can trust the backed up data!

How to create backup of your Data?

You might have heard many people saying about backing up data but might not know how to create backups of your data. You can create backup by following simple steps without any added backup software to your computer system.

1. Click Start
2. Select All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Backup
3. Backup and Restore Wizard window will be displayed.

4. Click Next.

The following window will ask the operation you want to perform.

5. Select Back up files and settings option, if you want to create backups of your data or
select Restore files and settings option, if you want to restore any backup.

6. Click Next.

7. What to Back up screen will be displayed. Here you can select what files you want to backup. The backup system allows you to backup:

My documents and settings: Creates backup of My documents folder, Favorites, Desktop items and cookies

Everyone’s documents and settings: Creates backup of every user’s My Documents folder, their favorites, Desktop items and cookies

All information on this computer: Creates backup of entire data of the computer system. It also creates a system recovery disk which proves helpful while restoring Windows in the case of major failure.

Let me choose what to backup: Creates backup of your desired files and folders.

Select the appropriate option and click Next.

The next screen is displayed according to the selected option. We had selected Let me choose what to backup option in the previous screen. The window to select files and folders will be displayed.

8. Select the files and folders and click Next.

The window to select saving destination of the files which are being backed up will be displayed.

9. Select any location to save backup of your files and click Next.

The finishing window of the backup process will be displayed.

10. Click Finish to complete the backup process.

You can also specify advanced backup options by clicking the Advanced… button. The following screen will be displayed:

11. Select the type of backup you want to create and click Next.

The wizard will now start creating the backup. The Backup Progress window will appear with backup statistics.

You can view your backed up items by clicking the following icon from your saved location.

If in case the backed up data gets corrupt, damaged or becomes inaccessible, you can always trust the bkf file repair software, which instantly recovers the backed up files which you cannot open.