Back up your important files with Windows 8 file history

Knowledge Point Analysis:

When we need to back up important files, most of them will choose to copy the files to a USB drive or a hard disk. In a good situation, you can also back up to the cloud, although these two methods are safe and very simple, but if we back up the important document, such as a report or report to write, one day modified it, You may forget to update the data in the backup at the same time the more difficult operation of the cloud, if we update the data in a timely manner, but sometimes we feel that there is no modification before the more appropriate, this time more trouble, also said that backup is easy, but want to retrieve a time before a certain data or multiple data, will not be able to do, we need a timely update backup data software, Windows built-in file history can help us this favor.

　Operation Steps:

1. Mouse placed in the lower right corner---Exhale super button---Select Set---Control Panel---System and security---file history;

2. The file history feature is turned off by default, click to start can be opened, the first use of the need to select a drive, you can select an external drive (mobile hard disk or U disk) and network location, network location needs to set up a homegroup, and then back up the file to other members of the family group computer hard disk, because the author did not set up , here only to show the use of U disk related functions, the use of the network is similar.

3. Unfortunately, file history does not support active selection of drive folders, only links to libraries, but, in fact, we can associate files that need to be backed up to the library by default, and if we don't need to back up a lot of useless high-definition video or music files, You can select unwanted library files in the Exclude folder, which removes a large number of unimportant video files.

4. Click to run immediately, you can back up the library file, speed depends on the size of your library files, the first slow, now show file history is backing up your copy of the file, this time to remove the U disk, will destroy your backup data, patiently waiting for a while, will be back to completion.

5. At this time we open u disk, you will see the following folder. Configuration inside the XML file, is the backup data layout management, this part we do not need to understand, we back up the data are stored in the Date folder, we can read files inside, but this is very busy, We can retrieve the backed-up data by restoring the personal files in the file history.

6. Click on the left column to restore personal files, you will see a choice of the interface, we are in the library inside the file for each change, the system will automatically update the default time frequency of the data inside, 4/4 means that I have made 4 changes to the file, each time the data are saved down, If we want to recover any of the data, clicking the green button restores the file at that time.

7. Select a time period here to recover the data.

8. If a large number of files in the data have not been changed, the system will skip this part of the original thought it would take a lot of time to complete the recovery, skipped these projects, quickly completed.

9. In the advanced settings can change the frequency of the system to save the file, the default is one hour, of course, if we need to update now, you can manually update. You can also change the size of the offline cache, save the version, and select the default settings.

In short, file history, not only to back up the data, but also the function of time machine, we can choose a time period of data to restore, this point and now many mobile phone Address Book Assistant is very similar, you can choose the past a period of data to recover, very convenient.