Chapter 14. Backing Up Data

In This Chapter:

About Backups

Create and Schedule a Backup

Perform a Data Restore

The capability to back up data has become more important to even the most basic home computers in recent years. Equipment and software for home users has become inexpensive as well as greatly advanced. Computers are being used for photos, music, video, banking, scrapbooking, and a myriad of other things.

In the past, most home users relied on the copy method to back up files that were important to them. The copy method is a simple copy from a hard drive to floppies, zip drives, recordable CDs, or another hard drive. The copy method works, but is not very flexible and it is difficult to keep track of what has been backed up and when.

Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 contains two applications, Roxio Backup and Roxio Retrieve, to help you back up and retrieve your data. Roxio Backup is a utility that allows you to create backup projects that perform backups of specific files. You can create as many backup projects as you like and tailor them to fit your specific needs.