Symantec GHOST - V 15.0 - Best Practices for Data Backup; About Backing Up Your Data

Best practices for backing
up your data
This chapter includes the following topics:
■ About backing up your data
■ About choosing a backup type
■ Best practices for backing up
■ Additional tips about backups
■ After defining your backup job
■ About selecting a backup destination
■ About backing up dual-boot computers
About backing up your data
To back up your computer or your individual files and folders, you do the following:
■ Define a backup
■ Run the backup
See “How you use Norton Ghost” on page 34.
When you define a backup, you decide on the following:
■ What to back up (files and folders, or an entire drive)
■ Where to store the backup data (backup destination)
■ Whether or not to use Offsite Copy to copy backup data to remote locations
■ When to run the backup (automatically or manually)
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