Backing up your computer

Introduction

This page describes how to back up your data; it does not explain how to backup the OS of the computer; Alexis Huxley will do that on request.

Backing up your data involves just copying data from different locations on the computer’s own disks to suitably named sub-directories on the removable USB disk, as such this procedure is simply concerned with specifying the locations of what should be copied and to where they should be copied.

You should read this entire procedure before you attempt to do it.

Procedure

  1. The main procedure for connecting removable devices, copying stuff, and disconnecting removable devices is described at Transferring files to and from removable devices. So you need to complete that procedure using the sources and destinations specified below:
    Attention: The internal data of table “103” is corrupted!

    Note that:

    1. YYMMDD is the year, month and date (e.g. 080401)
    2. YYMMDD is much better than DDMMYY because it will result in previously made backups all being displayed in the order in which they were made.
  2. The 10G removable volume (which means, the little black disk I’m saving it onto) will not already contain YYMMDD/linux and YYMMDD/windows subdirectories; you’ll need to create these yourself and navigate into them before you actually start each of the above-listed copies.

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