Creating Recovery Points - HP Compaq 8710p Getting Started Manual

To back up your entire hard drive:
1. Select Start > All Programs > HP Backup & Recovery >
HP Backup and Recovery Manager.
2. Click Next.
3. Click Back up to protect system settings and important
data files, and then click Next.
4. Click Back up entire hard drive, and then click Next.
5. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Creating recovery points

When you back up modifications since your last backup, you
are creating system recovery points. This allows you to save a
snapshot of your hard drive at a specific point in time. You
can then recover back to that point if you want to reverse
subsequent changes made to your system.
The first system recovery point, a snapshot of the entire image,
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is automatically created the first time you perform a backup.
Subsequent recovery points make copies of changes made after
that time.
HP recommends that you create recovery points at the
following times:
Before you add or extensively modify software or
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hardware
Periodically, whenever the system is performing optimally
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Recovering to an earlier recovery point does not affect data files
or e-mails created since that recovery point.
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