Win8 system uses file history to back up important files

You may not know that the file history function is turned off by default. Click Start to open it. For the first time, you need to select a drive. You can select an external drive (mobile hard disk or USB flash drive) and network location. The network location needs to be established. Group, and then back up the files to the hard disk of other members of the family group. Since the author has not established a family group, only the related functions of using the USB disk are displayed here, and the use of the network is similar.

Unfortunately, the file history does not support the active selection of the drive folder, only supports linking to the library, but in fact, we can associate the files that need to be backed up to the library, the default is to back up all the libraries. Files, if we don't need to back up a lot of useless HD video or music files, you can select unnecessary library files in the exclude folder, and remove a lot of unimportant video files.

The first step, click to run immediately, you can back up the library file, the speed depends on the size of the files in your library, the first time is slow, now the file history is backing up your file copy. Removing the USB flash drive at this time will destroy your backup data, and wait patiently for a while before it will be backed up.

The second step, when we open the U disk, we will see the following folder. The xml file in Configuration is the layout management of the backup data. We don't need to understand this part. The data we backed up is saved in the Date folder. We can read the file in it, but it is very troublesome, we can Retrieve the backed up data by restoring personal files in the file history.

The third step, click on the restore personal file in the left column, you will see an interface that can be selected from left to right. Every time we change the files in the library, the system will automatically update according to the default time frequency. The data inside, 4/4 means that I have made 4 changes to the file. Every time the data is saved, if we want to restore any of the data, click the green button to restore the file; A large number of files in the data were not changed, and the system skipped this part. I thought it would take a lot of time to complete the recovery. I skipped these items and it was completed very quickly.

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