Windows 10: Backup strategy recommendations

A friend has asked me for help in setting up a backup strategy for her computer. I am way out of date on the best practices in this area. It's a desktop computer currently running Windows 7 but she wants to bring it up to date with Windows 10 so I'm looking for a good backup strategy once we've done the upgrade.

I think the big question is what should be backed up and what shouldn't. We obviously need to do backups of her user data - she says she has lots of recipes and photographs - and they are presumably getting updated regularly in the form of new photos and recipes so I imagine we'd want a full backup of those at intervals with incremental backups in between full backups. What else should she back up to handle any reasonable contingency, including Windows crashes, hardware failures, etc.?

I realize this is a complex topic and would be quite content to be directed to a good, up-to-date tutorial.

:)

 

How to undo "replace file" with pictures

You'd have to get them from your latest backup, assuming you make backups (which would be important considering the

average hard drive life span).

Nothing can help now, but if you want to avoid ever having risk in the future from accidental over-writing a file, or a failure, here's the the Bare Minimum
Backup Strategy that I recommend.

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Backup

It can, but you have to turn it on. It's remarkably easy though, I wrote a little post called "The Bare Minimum Backup Strategy" describing the way I
use it.

 

I would backup everything with an image. Here is my tutorial. If you have questions, post back.

Imaging with free Macrium - Windows 7 Help Forums

And tell her, if she wants to stay happy, stay on Windows 7.

 

*Eek Remember to backup the W7 installation before the W10 installation (just in case it goes wrong). *Eek