Back Up your Data With The Windows 7 Backup Tool

Did you know that Windows 7 comes with its own backup tool? Here is a quick tutorial on how to use this tool to protect and back up all the important files, folders and data. While there is no substitute for a professionally managed backup solution both locally and online to fully protect your data, it is also recommended by Windows and general computing best practices to back up you files onto an external USB drive periodically as well. I saw a 500 GB external drive for sale the other day for as low as $100, which is a good deal considering how important your business and personal information is to you.

To get started got to Control Panel and you will see a “Systems and Security” icon:

Click on “Back up Your Computer” to run the following prompts:

Click on “Set up backup”:

From here you will need to select “Guidelines for choosing a backup destination” From here you will want to select you external drive from the backup destination box and click “Next.” From here a Wizard will walk you through several steps to select what files you want to backup, and the frequency (i.e. daily, weekly, monthly).

Do you currently backup the data on your desktop or laptop? If not, hopefully this simple solution will buy you some time while you have professsional cloud based backup installed.

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2 Responses to “Back Up your Data With The Windows 7 Backup Tool”

Matthew Gange says on March 16th, 2012 at 10:58 pm :

Won’t work with MAC! Tried and waited several months!
Felice Heykoop says on March 21st, 2012 at 5:33 pm :

I am going to look into this. My big issue with cloud backup was always the initial load times.

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