{"id":222,"date":"2013-11-10T12:36:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T12:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qbs-pchelp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2016-11-29T12:40:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T12:40:25","slug":"backing-up-your-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qbs-pchelp.co.uk\/blog\/free-pc-tips\/backing-up-your-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Backing Up Your Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Backing up files is a very important part of maintaining your PC and can save a lot of hassle if your PC ever experiences hard drive failure.<\/p><div id=\"pchel-3046332202\" class=\"pchel-qbs-adsence-content pchel-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8454708912439696\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8454708912439696\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"8098774585\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>\n<p>The idea of a backup is to make copies of your most important files and documents so you can store them on another device of some kind (e.g. a separate internal hard drive, DVD's, Flash Drives, external drives).<\/p>\n<p>A good tool to use is Windows 7's own built in backup and restore program. To access this go to Control Panel - System and Security - Backup and Restore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Full System Backup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regular backups are all very well but a full image backup can get your computer up and running in no time at all if your hard drive should ever fail.<\/p>\n<p>With Windows 7 Home Premium and above there is a built in image backup program. This will take a snapshot of everything on your PC including the Windows Operating System and all the applications on your computer and all their settings.<\/p>\n<p>This image backup can even be set to run once a week in the background. So there\u2019s no excuse not to back up.<\/p>\n<p>For the price of an decently sized external hard drive you can now recover individual files from a regular backup or even take your whole machine back to the time when you last took a full image backup.<\/p>\n<p>To access the image backup program in Windows 7 go to Control Panel - System and Security - Backup and Restore and in the left panel click 'create a system image'.<\/p>\n<p>Note: It always pays to remember that computers have a tendency to go wrong from time to time and although total hard drive failure is comparatively rare, this can occasionally happen so backing up your PC is a vital task to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backing up files is a very important part of maintaining your PC and can save a lot of hassle if your PC ever experiences hard drive failure. 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