How to Protect Data from Physical Destruction

How to protect data from hardware physical destruction? Of course, Handy Backup isn’t omnipotent and can’t protect your PC from being destroyed by earthquake, but at least it can protect your data, so you can easily restore it on a new hardware.

How to Back up Against Data Loss: Step-by-step Guide

If you want to have a absolute protection of your data, you need the following things:

• Home Professional or Home Standard + Image Plugin
• Handy Backup Disaster Recovery (already included into Home Professional version)
• External USB Hard Drive (1-2 Tb, depending on a total size of your computer’s drives)
• USB flash stick

Now you need to do the following:

1. Install Handy Backup.
2. Install Handy Backup Disaster Recovery on your flash stick. You can read about it in Online Help.
3. Connect the external HDD to your PC.
4. Open the Handy Backup interface.
5. Create a new backup task:
   
6. On the second step choose the Disk image option. The new window will appear:
   
   Check all the items in the left box, click “OK” and then “Next”.
7. Choose your USB drive as backup storage:
   
8. Follow wizard steps.
9. When the task is created, start it. Now you have the completely functional backup of your computer!

How to Recover Data after Hardware Physical Destruction

Now if something happens to your PC, you need to do the following:

Connect your USB flash stick (with Handy Backup Disaster Recovery on it) and USB hard drive to your new PC, boot from the flash stick and restore the backup from your USB HDD. You can read more about it here: Restoring Image Backup Made in Windows.

See also:

How to Back up Data (Overview)

How to Make a Hard Drive Snapshot

Handy Backup Disaster Recovery Installation

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