User manual
Table Of Contents
- Nero BackItUp Manual
- 1 Start Successfully
- 2 Launching the Program
- 3 User Interface
- 4 Back up Files
- 5 Backing up Files Again - Updating a File Backup
- 6 Backing up Drives
- 7 Specifying the Backup Target for File and Drive Backup and Starting the Backup
- 8 Scheduling Backups - Nero BackItUp Jobs
- 9 Verifying Backups
- 10 Restoring Files and Drives
- 11 Backup and Restore Tools
- 12 Nero BackItUp ImageTool
- 13 Other Operations
- 14 Options Window
- 15 Technical Information
- 16 Index
- 17 Appendix: Nero BackItUp File Extensions
- 18 Contact
Backing up Drives
6 Backing up Drives
You can back up entire drives with Nero BackItUp. In contrast to the file backup, the drive
backup restores programs and operating systems when restoring.
You can burn the backup to a disc or save it to a hard drive. It is also possible to save the
backup to an FTP server or as an image file.
When you back up a drive, the backup file is usually quite large. If you burn the backup to
disc, you will usually require multiple discs. The first backup disc is always a bootable disc. If
you do not burn the backup to disc, it is still quite useful to create a bootable disc so that you
can start the computer (and the drive restore) from CD/DVD in the event of an emergency
(see
Nero BackItUp ImageTool).
It is not possible to update a drive backup.
You must have administrator rights in Windows
®
XP
®
to start a drive backup.
6.1 Basic steps
The following steps are generally required to back up a drive (i.e. hard drive and/or
partitions) with Nero BackItUp:
Select the hard drive/partition to back up (see Selecting drives)
Select the target of the backup (see Backup Settings screen, for example)
Specify the back
up settings and start the backup (see e.g. Completing the Backup
Wizard screen
)
6.2 Selec
ackItUp, proceed as follows:
1.
Æ The Drive Backup screen appears.
ting drives
To select a drive to back up with Nero B
Click the Drive Backup menu icon.
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