The process goes a little something like this: Sounds complicated, doesn’t it? Fear not: Even if you’re not the most adept at using technology, you can successfully create an image of your system with Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office. With this same tool, you can also create an emergency boot disk on the off-chance you need to restore a system that refuses to boot. SEE: Power checklist: Troubleshooting hard drive failures (TechRepublic Premium)Īcronis Cyber Protect Home Office offers a robust imaging tool that walks you through the process of creating a full image of your running machine and gives you a choice of destinations to house the image. Machine-level backups are a good option for many because they back up everything (including the operating system), so should something go wrong, you could easily return that machine to a working state. The machine-level backup takes this one step further and creates an image of your entire drive.

Folder-level backups are exactly what they sound like - backing up only the folders that contain the important data your organization needs.

Within the realm of backups, you can take two similar yet distinctive paths: Folder-level backup or machine-level backup. Regardless of whether you’re a parent, small business owner or IT manager for a mid-sized company, when it comes to your data you need to take measures to ensure there’s always a backup.

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