How to Backup Your Hard Disk Data

Configurare il proprio sistema di backup:

Backup dei dati informatici è diventato un imperativo per gli utenti di posti di lavoro Windows. Ciò si verifica perché la sicurezza dei dati è fondamentale e ogni utente deve essere consapevole che eventi imprevisti che possono verificarsi in grado di distruggere dati importanti sul proprio PC o MAC. Ulteriori informazioni su come eseguire i backup è davvero "un must assoluto. Qualsiasi utente, indipendentemente dal grado di fiducia lui o lei è sul loro computer, hanno bisogno di intraprendere azioni per prevenire la perdita di dati (immagini, musica,documenti, lavoro, email, ecc.) crash del disco rigido, interruzioni di corrente, la cancellazione accidentale di file si verificano. Virus o altri eventi imprevisti in grado di distruggere il vostro lavoro in una frazione di secondo, ma non la colpa di questi eventi, si rimprovera di non imparare il supporto-up! Ora a leggere - per imparare.

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Un'introduzione di base: Eseguire un backup del database - per chi solo all'inizio!

How to Backup Your Hard Disk Data

Cosa e Come si salva?

Se tu fossi un amministratore di sistema responsabile per il mantenimento delle reti criticheServer, la risposta sarebbe TUTTO! Tuttavia, questo renderebbe più difficile per un lavoro e una profonda comprensione di come i computer di lavoro. Quello che presento qui è un semplice metodo di backup di base. Tentare tutti i backup è una sfida molto difficile per Windows moderna. Perché? Dal momento che Windows versione 2000, Windows (2000, XP e Vista) è diventato un vero sistema operativo multitasking. Questo significa che ci sono alcuni file di sistema che possono essere "facilmente" salvata - o ripristinate. E 'come cercare di aumentaresi ottiene dal letto - in piedi proprio!

I backup completi del software sono possibili con più sistemi operativi e più di un disco rigido!

Ai mezzi dual boot si dispone di più di un sistema operativo installato sul disco rigido ed è possibile scegliere tra i due quando si avvia il computer.

Invece di salvare tutto, io vi consiglio di mia semplice back-up metodo. Ciò implica che quelle cose che sono insostituibili, e questo significa che i dati critici efile personali. Tutte le altre cose (sistema operativo e programmi) può essere sostituita da una nuova installazione. Diamo un'occhiata a ciascuno dei componenti software in ordine:

Sistema Operativo - Se il disco non funziona, potrebbe essere necessario acquistare una nuova unità e iniziare con una installazione pulita. Il primo passo è installare il sistema operativo. Avrete bisogno di due cose da fare, l'installazione (CD-ROM) dei media, e la sua chiave di prodotto associato. Software (Office, ecc) - Arriverà conown CD-ROM, and it's associated registration codes. Make sure you know where they are when it comes time to reinstall. Downloadable software (Skype, Firefox, etc) - Go to the respective Website, and print out the details for the products download page. If you need to reinstall, this will tell you where to go for the download. Shareware - Print out the registration code, along with the Web home page (if applicable) and store it.

Now, if you do some analysis of your own hard drive, you will find that at least 70%, and probably more, of what is on your hard drive falls in one of the above categories. With just a little preparation, you can reinstall all of this above software - if you really need to do so.

Documents: This folder is the main area for your personal data. Normally, all your saved work, pictures, and music are placed in a folder in this directory. This makes it a very easy to do a backup on this section. Address book: Whatever e-mail client you use, you have an address book containing a list of those people you have contacted. Bookmarks and Favorites: You will have saved the addresses of some great Web sites. Netscape saves them as a single file, Internet Explorer uses a single directory containing individual links to each site. E-mail files: All those special messages you sent and received can be backed up. Other: You may have MYOB or QuickBooks that has critical data that cannot be replaced easily.

Create your own Backup with a Batch File: Step one is purchase an external USB hard drive kit. Once installed correctly, a new drive will be shown in "My Computer". Make a note of the drive letter that is allocated to it -eg; E: or F: or G:, etc...

The key to your own automated backup is the use of a batch file. This is a text file (or script file) that contains commands that are executed whenever the file is run. Creating a batch file is quite easy. In Windows, you can create one using Notepad. The thing to remember is that it must be a pure ASCII text file. Using a Word Processor, even WordPad, will not produce a pure text. I recommend using Notepad.

It is often easier to copy your existing work directories to separate hard disk (or a network resource) rather than using other complicated backup software. Several directories can be backed up easily by simply creating a simple a batch file (termed .CMD file in Windows 2000, XP and Vista). This 'backup' file can be saved and you may either:

Run it manually from your Windows Desktop - or Add a 'short-cut' to this file into the Windows [Startup] folder It can be added to the Windows [Scheduled Tasks] folder

Windows Batch files have many other uses - just like this working example. Copy the text box below, and paste it into Notepad. Save the file with a name like 'MyBackup.cmd, and be sure to add the cmd extension, and not the default txt.

This can be used as a working template of your own automatic backup script! Modify it to suit your own needs:

Notes: substitute the 'set drive=E:Backup' for the drive letter of your 2nd hard drive (or other network path).

Copy and Paste this 'Backup Script' to Notepad: (then save as MyBackup.cmd)

@Echo off

:: variables

Set drive=E:Backup

Set BackUpCmd=xcopy /s /e /h /c /d /i /r /k /y

Echo 1. Backing up My Documents...

%BackUpCmd% "%USERPROFILE%My Documents" "%drive%My Documents"

Echo 2. Backing up Favorites...

%BackUpCmd% "%USERPROFILE%Favorites" "%drive%Favorites"

Echo 3. Backing up email and address book (Outlook Express)...

%BackUpCmd% "%USERPROFILE%Application DataMicrosoftAddress Book" "%drive%Address Book"

%BackUpCmd% "%USERPROFILE%Local SettingsApplication DataIdentities" "%drive%Outlook Express"

Echo 4. Backing up email and contacts (MS Outlook)...

%BackUpCmd% "%USERPROFILE%Local SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftOutlook" "%drive%Outlook"

Echo 5. Backing up email and contacts (Incredimail)...

%BackUpCmd% "%USERPROFILE%Local SettingsApplication DataIMIdentities" "%drive%Incredimail"

Echo 6. Backing up email and contacts (Mozilla)...

%BackUpCmd% "%USERPROFILE%Application DataMozillaProfiles" "%drive%Mozilla"

Echo 7. Backing up the Windows Registry...

If not exist ";%drive%Registry" mkdir "%drive%Registry"

If exist "%drive%Registryregbackup.reg" del "%drive%Registryregbackup.reg"

Regedit /e "%drive%Registryregbackup.reg"

Echo Backup Complete! ... Hit any key ...

@Pause

The above Batch Script performs the following:

Backs up My Documents (all your documents, pictures, music, etc) Backs up Favourites (the website addresses you have saved) Backs up Outlook Express email and address book for the current user Backs up Outlook email and contacts for the current user (if found.) Backs up Incredimail email and address book for the current user (if found.) Backs up Mozilla email and address book for the current user (if found) Backs up the Windows Registry data for the current user

This script copies the files to the directory defined in the %drive% variable (E:Backup in the above script). After the first run, the script will incrementally add (over-write) any files that are found to be new - or have been changed. This backup script will copy system and hidden files found.

Understanding the Backup script:

Lines that begin with "::" are simply script comments The "set drive=" is used to indicate your backup Drive and any file path The "set BackUpCmd=" is used for the Xcopy command switches Lines beginning with "echo " are used to output text progress messages
Notes:

You can cancel this running script by a CTRL%2BC or CTRL%2BBreak The Registry backup in the above example saves the current 'User Profile' registry profile state. Saving the entire Windows System Hive Registry is not part of this simplistic and 'essential files' backup approach.
Easily Backup And Search Your Email

A great program that allows you to easily backup many popular Windows email programs, is MailStore Home. This is a free software tool will allow you to backup and archive email from the following email based programs:

Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Outlook Express Microsoft Windows Mail Microsoft Exchange Server Mailboxes Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla SeaMonkey Webmailer POP3 and IMAP File Import

MailStore Home allows you to backup your email's messages from many common applications into one accessible archive store. MailStore will import your existing email from Outlook, Windows Mail, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Exchange. Once MailStore has archived your email, you can use this software to easily search through all your messages by keyword. Optionally, you can quickly create a backup CD or DVD within this program. CD and DVD burning is fully integrated within MailStore Home. Archived email messages are stored in a easy MIME-compatible format, and can be easily recovered at any time.

A better tool than using xcopy = RoboCopy:

Robocopy, or "Robust File Copy", is a command-line folder replication tool. It has been freely available as part of the Windows Resource Kit (outside this site), and has now been introduced as a standard component of Windows Vista.

Robocopy is noted for its capabilities above and beyond the built-in Windows COPY and XCOPY (outside this site) commands, including the following:

Ability to tolerate outages and resume copying where it previously left off Ability to correctly copy attributes, owner information, alternate data streams, auditing information, and timestamp's by default Ability to correctly copy NTFS ACL's, (when /COPYALL provided) Persistence by default, with a programmable number of automatic retries if a file cannot be opened A "mirror" mode, which keeps folder contents in sync by optionally deleting files out of the destination that are no longer present in the source Ability to copy a very large numbers of files that would otherwise exceed the resources of the built-in utility A progress indicator on the command line that updates continuously

Robocopy will not copy open files that are found to be 'in use' by other users or applications. The Windows Volume Shadow Copy service is the only Windows sub-system that can open files while they are in use. Robocopy does not implement accessing the Volume Shadow Copy service.

Traditionally Robocopy itself is a command-line tool, however Microsoft Technet has provided a GUI front-end.

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