Draft:WSU Technology Knowledge Base Backing Up Your WSU PC Laptop
Overview
If your laptop failed right now, could you restore all of your important files and information on your new laptop within an hour? It is absolutely essential that you back up important information from your laptop to external, network, and/or web storage. Your laptop can be lost, stolen, dropped, spilled upon, or otherwise rendered unusable at any time. Its hard drive can fail without warning, making it impossible to access any of its data. If the only copy of your important intellectual property, hard work, and creative effort is on your laptop, you are running a terrible risk of losing it all forever. This prospect is disturbing enough for students, who risk losing semesters of academic work, but it is of critical importance for WSU employees who risk losing tremendous professional and institutional investments. Backing up your laptop data is an easy thing to do, there are a number of good, relatively inexpensive storage solutions available, and there is plenty of help available for both students and employees who have questions.
- Students - Contact the Digital Learning Center (457-5240 Option 1; dlc@winona.edu)
- Faculty and Staff - Contact TLT in the Professional Resource Center (457-5240 Option 3; tlt@winona.edu)
Backup Instructions
File Storage Options
- Backing Up Files to a CD or DVD
- Backing Up Files to a Flash or External Hard Drive
- Backing Up Files to Your WSU Personal Network Directory R:
- Backing Up Files to a Microsoft Live SkyDrive
Microsoft Office
- Backing Up Outlook Email Archives
- Backing Up Your Microsoft Office Custom Dictionary
- Backing Up Excel Macros
- Backing Up OneNote Notebooks
Browser Favorites & Bookmarks
- Backing Up Internet Explorer Browser Favorites
- Backing Up Mozilla Firefox Browser Bookmarks
- Backing Up Chrome Browser Bookmarks