Summary

This chapter showed you how to use the new and improved Backup utility that comes with Windows 98. After a brief discussion of “real-world” backups, I showed you how to create backup jobs both by using the Backup Wizard and by hand from the Microsoft Backup window. You also learned a few techniques for working with backup media and for creating Emergency Recovery disks. I closed by showing you how to restore backed-up data.

Here's a list of chapters where you'll find related information:

  • I explain the Registry files in detail in Chapter 12, “Getting to Know the Windows 98 Registry.”

  • You'll learn how to create an emergency startup disk in Chapter 17, “Wielding the Windows 98 System Tools.”

  • If you perform a full backup, Windows 98's new System ...

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