Maintaining a regular backup schedule takes time and often gets frustrating, and the realization of how important it is only hits you when your hard disk has just failed and important data has been lost. To be able to recover quickly from any future next crash, teach your PC to do this simple trick:
Archive personal data: Protect your data with the easy-to-use tool GoodSync.
After installing it, you can define any number of jobs that can be executed independently. GoodSync allows you to define multiple source
and destination folders as well as the directions that data will be synchronized in. This means that
you can make sure that two folders are always exact copies of each other, or ensure that only changes in one folder will be reflected in the other (to protect files in your backup location from being overwritten with older versions). You use the program to sync or backup to external drives,network locations, or even remote FTP servers. Additionally, you can create filters so that only certain file types in a folder are synced, not the entire folder. Enter a name like
“My Personal Data” for the backup job and select the two folder locations in the left and right panes of the main interface window. It is best to use a network location or an external hard drive to further protect your backups. You can use the ‘Analyze’ button to quickly determine whether
the files in the two locations are actually diff erent, and then use the ‘Sync’ button to quickly update older versions. For more advanced settings such as filters, click ‘Job Options…’ and examine the options available to see what suits you. You can even set up a further layer of protection by ensuring that files that are deleted from your source location aren’t deleted in the backup location as well are moved to a separate “deleted fi les” area so that you can choose to restore them later. GoodSync also allow you to schedule your backups and trigger them on certain events (such as inserting a removable drive). Activate the options in the ‘Auto’ section of each job’s Options dialog box. With one click, you can ensure synchronization occurs each time you log off from your user profi le, which is a part of the process of shutting down. If this is not convenient for you, you can use Windows’ built in Task Scheduler to specify a particular time, such as in the middle of the night when your PC is idle, for backups to be created.
Create system backups: Backing up your personal data such as documents,email, photos and media fi les will give you considerable peace of mind, but what should you do when Windows itself starts giving trouble or refuses to work at all? In such a case, the problem is usually a damaged or missing registry key. Getting the computer back up and going would be rather diffi cult if you didn’t have any backup of your system settings, which is why so many users choose to go through an expensive and time-consuming reinstallation process. Formatting your drive and starting from scratch need not be necessary at all if your computer is equipped with the tools it needs to archive system data. A backup taken each time Windows starts up is optimal. It does not add much to your booting time and guarantees a measure of security. The program ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility NT) is perfect for this purpose. During installation, create a folder for your backups to be stored in, and confi rm the question about whether the tool should be put into the auto start folder. Now run ERUNT using its shortcut under ‘Start - All Programs - Startup’ and open its context menu with a rightclick. Select ‘Properties’ so that you go to the confi guration dialog box. Under ‘Shortcut’, enter “/always create” in the ‘Target’ fi eld so that ERUNT creates a backup of the registry at each startup. The performance of the PC does not suffer in this case; ERUNT makes the copies at breakneck speed. Even so, if Keep your important files safe: GoodSync provides incredible flexibility for a free program—you can synchronize entire folders, filter out certain file types, and even store your backups on a remote FTP server. you do not want daily backups just type ‘/days:x’ instead, where “x” stands for the number of days after which each new backup should be created. Then, if any emergency does occur with Windows, there's no cause for panic. Simply boot the PC in Safe Mode and recover the original file.
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