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Best practices for backing
up your data
This chapter includes the following topics:
About backing up your data
About choosing a backup type
What to do before you back up
What to do during a backup
What to do when a backup is finished
Tips for running defined backups
Viewing the properties of a 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 to use Symantec System Recovery on page 43.
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).
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