7 Accessing data restoration
The time will come when you need to restore a file or files,
either because you want to work with older versions, or because
you’ve lost files. You do this via the Control Panel version of File
History as seen in the previous step. Click the Start menu, type
“control panel” and click the shortcut, before clicking File History.
Click the Restore personal files link to the left.
8 Restoring data
You can browse through the backups using the arrow
buttons at the bottom of the screen – this enables you to restore
a version other than the latest version of a file. If you click the
green button at the bottom, files will be restored to theiroriginal
location, but you can save them elsewhere by clicking thelittle
gear button to the upper right and selecting Restore to...QQ5
Creating your first backup
While you could just sit back and wait for the first backup to
be created on schedule, you can also initiate it straightaway. Scroll
back to the top of the Back-up options, and click the Back up now
button. Depending on the amount of data involved, the initial
backup may take a while to complete, but the subsequent
updates that take place in the background will be much faster.
3 Choose backup folders
File History is configured to automatically back up a number
of folders by default, but they may not be the ones you need or
use. Look beneath the dropdowns on the Back-up options screen,
and click Add a folder. Select a folder that you want to safeguard,
and click the Choose this folder button. Repeat for as many
folders as you like.
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Backing up to network locations
The approach we’ve used so far backs up to a second hard
drive or a USB drive, but File History can also be used to back up
to a network location. At the bottom of the Back-up options
screen, click the See advanced settings link and you’ll see a
different interface for File History. Click Select drive to the left, and
instead of choosing a drive, click Add network location.4 Removing and excluding folders
As well as adding the folders you want to use to the backup,
it makes sense to remove any you don’t need. Just click on any of
the folders that appear in the Back up these folders section and
click the Remove button. You can also opt to exclude sub-folders
from being backed up if you like. Scroll down to the Exclude these
folders heading, click Add a folder and select the relevant folders.Explore
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