Backup Strategy

Now that we are migrating priceless personal documents to the new machine, it’s time to talk backups!
For now, I’m using  Windows Backup and Restore.
What I back up: Files in libraries and Personal folders for all users and system image” every night at 9:00 PM.
Where I back up to: NTFS-formatted partition on an external USB 2.0 hard drive.
I think the defaults do not backup “data” files in funny location. To back up directories you’ve created like c:\data, you should add them to a Library. To do this: In Windows Explorer,  right-click on Libraries –> New –> Library, and give your new library a name, like “Data”. Then, navigate to your data directory, right-click, Include in Library, and choose a library. Now the directory will be backed-up along with the rest of the Libraries.