Backing up should be an essential part of everyone's regular routine, whether you work in an office or work at home. Then when your device suddenly stops working, a critical error prevents the device from starting correctly, or files get damaged, you can use the 'Backup and Restore' feature to recover individual files or the entire system as necessary. Creating frequent backups is one of the best strategies to protect your documents, pictures, videos, custom configurations, and Windows 10 files against software problems, hardware failure, hackers, and malware (such as viruses and ransomware) attacks.Īlthough there are many third-party utilities that you can use, Windows 10 ships with the legacy 'Backup and Restore' experience, which allows you to create full backups automatically at regular intervals.Ī full backup using this tool means that Windows 10 will make a copy of everything on your computer, including installation files, settings, apps, and all your files stored in the primary drive, as well as those files stored in different locations.
