Backing Up Your Devices

Tech & Tea Seminar By CommuniTech

OUTLINE ❖  Why backing up is important

❖  Methods for backing up your laptop or desktop PC ▪  Manual ▪  Automated ▪  System Image

❖  Backing up general data from your mobile device ▪  Android ▪  Apple iOS

❖  Cloud Storage

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WHY BACKING UP IS IMPORTANT

❖  Large amount of data on our electronic devices ▪  Work documents ▪  Personal finances ▪  Photos ▪  Videos

❖  Imagine losing all that data

❖  It is possible to recover data from broken hard drives but there are no guarantees

❖  Best form of defence is a good offence – be proactive

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BACKING UP YOUR LAPTOP OR DESKTOP PC - MANUAL

❖  Simplest form of backup is manually copying your files from one location to another

❖  If you have multiple hard drives in your computer you can run a back up from one to another

❖  Better if transferred to an external hard drive

❖  Downsides are remembering to do the backup and on a regular basis

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BACKING UP YOUR LAPTOP OR DESKTOP PC - AUTOMATED

❖  For Windows there is an integrated backup system

❖  Start button, select Settings > Update & security > Backup > Add a drive, and then choose an external drive or network location for your backups.

❖  Going into advanced options allows you decide what files how often your computer backs up

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BACKING UP YOUR LAPTOP OR DESKTOP PC - SYSTEM IMAGE

❖  As part of Windows backup a System Image

can be created

❖  System images create a copy of a system

drive

❖  If your system drive fails, system images can

be used to restore the data from your old

drive

❖  It is a complete copy of the drive – requires

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BACKING UP YOUR LAPTOP OR DESKTOP PC - AUTOMATED

❖  If you want more flexibility third party

programmes exist

❖  These will allow you to decide when a back

up occurs to avoid slowing down your

computer when you are using it

❖  Some paid for programmes consolidate

backing up of data on all devices

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SyncBack – 2BrightSparks

BACKING UP YOUR MOBILE DEVICE - ANDROID

❖  Photos can be set to backup automatically to Google Photos,

alternatively you can backup manually by connecting to a

computer

❖  If you use google contacts then contact information associated

with google account is backed up automatically

❖  App data, call history and device settings can be set to backup to

Google Drive automatically

❖  When changing phones many phone manufacturers have their

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BACKING UP YOUR MOBILE DEVICE - ANDROID

❖  iOS automatically backs up your iPhone data up to a limit of 5GB

for free, for more space you will need to pay

❖  Backup all your phones data manually to your computer using

iTunes - Like all manual backups, needs to be conducted regularly

to be most effective

❖  Alternatively use third party cloud services

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CLOUD STORAGE ❖  Allows your data to be accessed by you anywhere

❖  One Drive allows for multiple users to edit documents

simultaneously

❖  CommuniTech use Google Drive to allow us to each work from

different locations

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