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Lesson 2 Backing Up Data
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In the Schedule Job dialog box, you can set the date, time, and number of occurrences
for the backup job to repeat, such as every Friday at 10:00 P.M. You can
also display all of the scheduled tasks for the computer by selecting the Show Multiple
Schedules check box. This helps prevent you from scheduling multiple tasks
on the same computer at the same time.
You can also click Advanced to schedule how long the backup can last and for how
many days, weeks, months, or years you want this schedule to continue.
After you schedule the backup job and complete the Backup Or Restore Wizard, the
Backup Utility places the backup job on the calendar on the Schedule Jobs tab in Windows
Backup. The backup job automatically starts at the time that you specified.
Offsite Backups
As you are learning in this chapter, backing up your data is a critical part of ensuring
that you can recover from disaster. On many networks, administrators tend to
leave backed up data close to the location where backups are created. Administrators
might leave data on a network drive, assuming that because the data exists
in two separate locations (in the original location and on drive where it is backed
up), it is safe. Even when a removable backup medium is used, all too often
administrators leave that medium in the same room as the backup server—tapes
on a shelf or in a locking cabinet, for example.
Although this practice provides a certain level of assurance that you can recover
data if a user’s computer (or even the backup server itself) crashes, you should
take the extra measure of keeping a copy of backed up data in an offsite storage
location. It is best to keep a copy of data in a fire-resistant safe in a completely
different building from your network. Keeping offsite backups requires more
effort, but in the event of a true catastrophe (such as a fire or natural disaster), an
offsite backup can be a real life saver.
Practice: Backing Up Data
In this practice, you use the Backup Or Restore Wizard to back up some files to your
hard disk. You then create a backup job to perform a backup operation at a later time
by using Task Scheduler.
Exercise 1: Back Up Files by Using the Backup Or Restore Wizard
1. Log on with an account that is a member of the Administrators or Backup Operators
group or that has the Backup Files and Directories user right.
2. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and
then click Backup.