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Effective Inexpensive Backups - Part 4 of 5

After you make the batch files you will need to schedule them in Windows Task Scheduler ( Windows XP or Windows 7 ). Make sure both machines are on when the backup is scheduled…

February 28, 2011 · 1 min read

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Effective Inexpensive Backups - Part 3 of 5

Goal - Incremental backup by the day so we can find the version of the file(s) we prefer. For this backup we will use xcopy to copy files and folders that have changed since the…

February 22, 2011 · 1 min read

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Effective Inexpensive Backups - Part 2 of 5

Goal - Backup of files and folders that existed at one time but have been removed or overwritten. This type of backup protects us from data loss due to human error (deleting a…

February 14, 2011 · 2 min read

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The Importance of Data Backups

As the manager of a computer repair store, the worst situation is to tell our customer that their hard drive is dead and we cannot recover their data. There is nothing worse than…

October 27, 2010 · 3 min read