(Microsoft??™s advice, if you can
believe it, is to back up your data twice??”once with Complete PC
Backup and once with the Back Up Files wizard??”if you want complete
protection and the luxury of restoring individual files.)
Figure 6-11. The Backup and Restore Center, showing the Back Up Files wizard that
everybody gets, plus the Complete PC Backup and Restore tool only included with higherend
editions of Vista
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Troubleshooting
Shadow Copies/Previous Versions
The Shadow Copies feature, also known as previous versions, is only
available in the Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions of Vista. It??™s
an extension of the System Restore feature, which stores older versions
of system files and hardware drivers in case Windows won??™t start as the
result of a recent change. See ???Go Back in Time with Restore Points and
Shadow Copies,??? earlier in this chapter, for details.
Truth be told, there??™s a fourth means of automated backup supported by
Vista; see the upcoming sidebar, ???Protect Your Data with RAID,??? for the
scoop.
Restore a Complete PC Backup
A saving grace of Vista??™s Complete PC Backup and Restore is how simple it
is. True, a few more features and interactivity would??™ve been nice (such as
the ability to restore individual files), but at least it works as advertised.
Restoring a Complete PC Backup involves erasing your hard
disk and replacing all your data with the data in the backup.
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