Solution 1: Simple copy
The next time you??™ve put a few hours into a document, open the folder in
Explorer, and make a duplicate of the file by dragging it to another part of
the same folder with the right mouse button and selecting Copy Here.
Then, if you screw up a file you??™re working on, if it gets accidentally deleted,
or if it gets corrupted by a system crash, you??™ll have a fresh backup right in
the same folder.
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Solution 2: Simple ZIP
At the end of the day (or even several times a day), just right-click the folder
of a project on which you??™ve been working, select Send To, and then select
Compressed (zipped) Folder. A new .zip file containing compressed versions
of all of its contents will appear next to the folder in a few seconds.
If you then need to retrieve a file from the backed-up folder, just doubleclick
the new .zip file.
If you??™ve disabled Windows Vista??™s built-in support for ZIP
files, and have instead installed a third-party utility, such as
WinZip (http://www.winzip.com), the procedure may be
slightly different. In the case of WinZip, all you??™d have to do
is right-click the folder and select Add to foldername.zip.
See ???Zip It Up,??? in Chapter 2, for the scoop on this ubiquitous format.
Back Up Your Entire System
There are more ways to back up your data than to store it in the first place.
The sole purpose of a backup is to have a duplicate of every single piece of
data on your hard disk that can be easily retrieved in the event of a catastrophe
(or even just an accidental deletion).
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