How To Back Up Files By Accessing The File History
Your computer can crash at the most inopportune times or you could just lose your file by mistake. You never know when you might find a backup handy, so we’d suggest you keep a backup of your files either online or offline for your convenience.
Here’s how to backup files by accessing the file history.
Step 1
Open Backup settings from search menu
Head over to the start menu and search for ‘Backup’ and click on ‘Backup Settings’.
Step 2
Select Backup using File History
Once you are in, you can take the backup using file history.
Step 3
Choose the backup drive
You will need to select one of the available drives where you would like to take the backup. Refresh the page to see, ‘Automatically Back up my file’ setting switched on.
Step 4
Click more options
You can click on More options to go through some advanced options and configure it.
Step 5
Customize Backup Settings
You can customize the backup settings as per your convenience, as it consumes your internet data while backing up your files. You can customize the backup time period, backup storage period and also choose the particular folder/files that you wanted to back up.
Step 6
Disable it to stop backup
If you want to disable the backup, just click on the button next to ‘Automatically Back up my file’ to stop Windows from backing up your files to that drive.
You can now effortlessly back up files by accessing the file history with just a few clicks.
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