CHAPTER 26 Building Better Backups

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Back Up to a Network Location

• Create a Backup of Your Entire Computer

• Recover from Disaster Using Your Complete PC Backup

• Restore an XP Backup to Vista

• Use XP’s Backup Utility in Vista

Most technical writers would open a backup-related chapter with an appeal to the reader to please, please make regular backups because you never know when disaster could strike, it’s happened to me, the sky is falling, yadda yadda yadda. However, even though I’ve written a few of those rants myself, I’ll spare you the spiel this time around because this chapter is about building better backups. That is, I’m assuming right up front that you’re already doing backups and what you really want are some ...

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