Backing Up Your System - Maxtor OneTouch User Manual

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Backing Up Your System

One valuable use of your new Maxtor OneTouch drive is to backup
your complete system. By using Retrospect, you can backup
everything and restore your complete system, if you ever need to.
What's contained in a full system backup?
• Your current operating system.
• Your applications.
• Your personal files.
• Your computer's settings
In the following section, you'll learn how to create a script to back
up your complete system and you'll do your first backup. A script is
simply a set of instructions that will tells Retrospect what files you
want to copy, where you want to put them and when you'd like the
copying to take place. In Chapter 6, we show you how to restore all
the files on your system in the event that your system is damaged
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or completely erased.
2 The Maxtor OneTouch drive, in combination with the included Dantz
Retrospect software, supports a complete system restore capability
(Operating System, drivers, applications, settings and user files) back
to the original computer system (running the same operating
system) that the backup copy was made from, when performed
according to the steps described in this chapter.
If you need to restore data to a different computer and / or a different
operating system, this product will only support the restoration of
user files and does not support under those circumstances
restoration of the Operating System, drivers, applications or settings.
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Before you begin. . .
In order for your system backup to be successful, you need to know
how big your complete system is and if your backup drive has
enough capacity to store all your files.
In the following steps, you will determine how big each drive on
your system is. This is important information to have to not only to
back up your system, but also in case you ever need to restore your
system. We encourage you to write down this information and
keep it in a safe place, just in case.
To determine how big your system is:
Windows: See below.
Macintosh: See next page.
Windows System Information
1. Open your My Computer icon.
When this window opens, you will be able to see each of the
drives in your system.
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