Configuring Backups and Recovery

In this session, you will learn:

 Configure backup.

 Configure system recovery options.

 Configure file recovery options.

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 LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students should be able to:

 Perform Backups

 Recover Data after the occurrence of a disaster.

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 Safeguarding Your Computer
and Recovering from Disaster

 The first step in preparing for disaster recovery is to expect that a disaster
will happen at some point and take proactive measures to plan your
recovery before the failure occurs.
 Below are some of the preparations you can make:

■ Keep your computer up - to - date with Windows Update

■ Perform regular system backups.

■ Use current software to scan for malware (such as viruses, spyware, and
adware) and make sure you have the most recent updates.

■ Perform regular administrative functions, such as monitoring the logs in the

Event Viewer utility.

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 Windows 7 Recovery Techniques

Event Viewer
• If the Windows 7 operating system can be loaded through Normal or Safe
mode, one of the first places to look for hints about the problem is Event
Viewer. Event Viewer displays system, security and application logs.

Safe Mode
• This is generally your starting point for system recovery. Safe mode loads
the absolute minimum of services and drivers that are needed to boot
Windows 7. If you can load Safe mode, you may be able to troubleshoot
devices or services that keep Windows 7 from loading normally.

Last known Good Configuration

• This option can help if you made changes to your computer and are now
having problems. Last Known Good Configuration is an Advanced Boot
Options menu item that you can select during startup. It loads the
configuration that was used the last time the computer booted successfully.
This option will not help if you have hardware errors.

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Windows 7 Recovery Techniques

Startup Repair tool

• This tool can restore system files from the Windows 7 media. This option
will not help if you have hardware errors

Backup and Restore Center

• You should use this utility to safeguard your computer. Through the Backup
utility, you can back up and restore personal files on your computer. You can
also create and restore images of your entire computer.

System Restore
• System Restore is used to create known checkpoints of your system’s
configuration. In the event that your system becomes misconfigured, you
can restore the system configuration to an earlier checkpoint.

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 Using Advanced Boot Options

• The Windows 7 advanced startup options can be used to troubleshoot

errors that keep Windows 7 from successfully booting

Below shows the Advanced Boot Options

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 Starting in Safe Mode

• Safe mode loads only the drivers needed to get the computer up and
running
• The drivers that are loaded with Safe mode include basic files and drivers
for the mouse, monitor, keyboard, hard drive, standard video driver, and
default system services.

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 Enabling Boot Logging

Enabling Boot Logging

• It troubleshoots the Boot Process because it creates a log file that tracks the
loading of drivers and services and when you choose the this option from
the Advanced Boot Options menu, Windows 7 loads normally, not in Safe
mode and this allows you to log all of the processes that take place during a
normal boot sequence (\WINDOWS\Ntbtlog.txt )

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 Exercises

Exercise 9.1 Safe Mode

Exercise 9.2 enabling Boot logging

Find out on the other Advanced Boot Options ( Page 525)

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 Maintaining Windows 7 with Backup and Restore

• The Windows 7 Backup and Restore utility enables you to create and restore
and the Backups protect your data in the event of system failure by storing the
data on another medium, such a hard disk, CD, DVD, or network location.
• If your original data is lost because of corruption, deletion, or media failure, you
can restore the data by using your saved backup
• To access Backup and Restore, type Backup and Restore in the Windows 7
search box.

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 Creating a Backup

Creating a Back Up

• To set up a backup, choose the Set Up Backup link in the right side of the
Backup And Restore window and this launches a wizard that takes you
through the process of creating a backup.

Lets Do EXERCISE 9 .3 (Backing Up Files)

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 Restoring Files from a Backup

Restoring Files
• If you have lost or destroyed fi les that you still want on your Windows 7
system, you can restore them from your backup.
• To restore files to your computer, launch the Backup and Restore program
by typing Backup and Restore in the Windows 7 search box.

Lets Do Exercise 9.4 Restoring Files

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 Using System Protection

System Protection
• is a feature of Windows 7 that creates a backup and saves the configuration
information of your computer ’ s system files and settings on a regular basis.
• System Protection saves previous versions of saved configurations rather than
just overwriting them thus making it possible to return to multiple configurations in
your Windows 7 history, known as restore points .
• The restore points are created before most significant events, such as installing a
new driver and are also created automatically every seven days

Lets Do exercise 9.6

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 Summary

• In this chapter, you looked at the different ways to recover and protect your
Windows 7 machine from hardware and software issues.
• Backing up a Windows 7 machine protects it in the event of a hardware or
software failure by restoring from the backup copy.

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