How to Back up Your Windows 11 (and 10) Personal Files with File History
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Backing up your computer is one of the most important things you need to do to keep your personal files safe. If your computer crashes or gets damaged, you risk losing everything you have stored on it unless you have made a recent backup.
Windows 10 and 11 come with a built-in backup program called File History that will allow you to backup your files to an external hard drive, flash drive, internal hard drive or network location. You can then choose the backup interval and how long to keep the files before they are removed, if ever. It will backup the typical user folders such as your documents, desktop, pictures, downloads and so on.
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On Windows 10 I could ADD "other" FOLDERS FROM C DRIVE (say) and backup up any and all locations to the FileHistory Drive. It seems I cannot do this in Windows 11. Did Microsoft screw its users again?
probably
it says libaries so maybe it means all libraries on your PC meaning every file on your PC is backed up
Yes. You might search for a' workaround'... one of the other tech guys covers that. I'll have to check for other files too. Hoping I won't care if backed up. hmmm thx . good reminder.
it was nice when you could do this via settings instead of having to go into control panel but oh well
Can i change the copy files from another disk location?
thanks!
I have a new computer and just did this! Yeah! I do graphic arts and in my old drive I kept my *.pdn files / WIP graphic files, and such, on the external drive only (with it's own back up). Is that something I can do here too and how. Are there any cons to adding, deleting rename files at the external drive level vs the internal one.? Hopefully that makes sense. Are there any no-no's around managing these files I need to be aware of? Thank you.
Are you saying you want to use File History to backup the files on your external drive? If so, then I don't think so because when you go to the File History settings there is no option to select the drive to backup but only the drive to backup to meaning it wants to only backup the C drive as the only option.
@@OnlineComputerTips Thanks for the reply. To be clear, I wanted to not back up another drive on the windows computer but just keep a stash of old mostly inactive graphic art files in a stand alone folder that I would add inthe external hard drive. I would want to treat it like any fold and move, delete and update any file saved there without interfacing, except manually, through the computer. Then once in a blue moon I would back p that specific stand alone on a 2nd drive. Anyway I'll think about it. Thank you for your time!
@@mre3913 If you want to keep a copy of your graphics files on your external drive, you can use File History if they are on your C drive in your Documents folder etc. Otherwise, there are various backup programs you can use to copy them to your external drive including this one that can keep the graphics folder on your hard drive and its backup copy synchronized.
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Can I restore files on another computer?
Yes but you would have to restore them manually by browsing the contents of your backup drive since the File History restore settings would apply to the computer that you created it on.