How to make a backup in Windows 10
Maybe you use Windows 10 on your company computers and you are wondering how to back up. Performing a backup in Windows 10 is simple. Although we are going to explain you another way to make your backups also, we will explain how to back up in the cloud.
By the time you finish reading this article, you will know exactly how to make a backup of your data and programs with Windows 10. and you will be able to keep your company’s data or your computers more secure.
How to back up in Windows 10
If you want to make a backup copy of Windows 10 you have to follow these steps.
1. Start > Control Panel > System and Maintenance > Backup and Restore.
2. “Configure backup”. Here you will be able to schedule your backup.
3. Follow the wizard steps to finish your backup.
4. Save the backup to an external location for safety.
5. In case you want to restore the data, System > System Protection > Create and then create the restore point.
All this will allow you to create a backup copy of your files, although it is true that what you may be interested in is to create an image of the system. In this case, the data will be saved as they are, including the programs, it is as if we were taking an image of the system at that moment,
To make the system image, in Backup and Restore, you have to go to the left panel “Create a system image”, following the steps. You will probably be prompted for a password (from your administrator user) to finish the restore.
System images can be saved in the cloud or on a USB flash drive so you can restore them whenever you want.
How to back up your files to the cloud.
As you can see, Windows is enough for you to create a scheduled backup, which is the proper way to do it.
Now, the big problem is in the location of the backups.
Logically, we can’t keep the backup of some files in the same location where these files are. If a virus got into your computer, it would affect both your backups and your original files.
Therefore, the backups have to be somewhere else.
For us, the best option is undoubtedly the online backup or cloud backup, which allows you to have an available and flexible space to store scheduled backups of your computers and restore them whenever you want.
The data you store in the cloud will be encrypted so that the information is always safe, and you have nothing to worry about. We safeguard the privacy of your data and ensure the confidentiality of the information, complying with the GDPR.
IT security of your business data.
In a company, it is of vital importance that we can configure a system to make backups, instead of having to do them manually with Windows, or having to store them on external devices, such as external hard drives.
To ensure the success of your IT security strategy, we advise you to make copies of your files periodically and in the cloud. Thanks to the cloud, you can easily save several versions of the same file so that you can go back to the situation you were in at the time you want, for example, up to the last week. In this way, you will never lose any data and you will never have to overwrite all your files backup.
It does you little good to make backups, if then when it comes to recover them, you don’t get back to the state you were in and you have to start the work all over again.
In addition to the backups, there are other aspects of the computer security of your business that you should take care of.
If your business is not paying attention to aspects such as the computer security then you are clearly taking cybersecurity risks that may cost you sooner or later.
We invite you to contact us if you have not implemented a backup strategy, or are not doing it right, to make sure that your company’s data is safe.
Your company is the first one to keep data security, also taking into account that you are obliged to protect the data of third parties (customers, suppliers…), in accordance with the GDPR.
Contact us for more information about how to protect your IT systems and implement a backup strategy.
