1. January 2002 1 Backing Up Your PC’s Hard Drive Dr. Michael Stachiw

2. January 2002 2 Backups How often should I back up my PC’s hard drive?

3. January 2002 3 Backups Answer: When you feel like not retyping all the data you’ve entered into your PC.

4. January 2002 4 What needs backing up? Booting information Complete computer Sensitive data files

5. January 2002 5 For each type of “backup” requirement, there are different strategies needed. Floppy disk utilities Tape utilities Internal program utilities

6. January 2002 6 Regardless of how often you back up, you should: Backup utility should be the only program running (if possible)

7. January 2002 7 Regardless of how often you back up, you should: (cont) Use new backup media as often as possible Store backup & backup utility in safe place

8. January 2002 8 System Boot Disk

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12. January 2002 12 Entire Computer System

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15. January 2002 15 Specific Data Backups

16. January 2002 16 Three Usual Methods Copy files directly to floppy disk or another hard drive Use compression utility to copy to floppy disk Use floppy disk backup utility

17. January 2002 17 WinZip

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22. January 2002 22 Backup Wizard

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31. January 2002 31 Internal Program Utilities

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