How To Backup & Restore Files On Windows 11 & 10 (2024 Guide)

this will be the easiest and most

reliable way to backup and restore files

on your Windows 10 computer or Windows

11 so whether you have a desktop or a

laptop if you have important files to

back up and you want it to schedule as

well you can do it in a very easy manner

all right so within 5 minutes you can

set up your backup and restore the only

thing is you need the external backup or

network drive or even you can save it to

your uh same drive as well like if you

have D drive or something you can do

that and if you have any device it

connected to your computer so here you

just need to click on the search icon

and type

control the best match will be control

panel and we will click on

that so the all control panel items will

look like this and if you do not see

like this what you can do is at the top

right corner where you have this view by

click on this down arrow key and click

on the large icons the moment you select

that you will see the window like this

and we will go with the second one which

says backup and

restore it says Windows 7 but it will

work on Windows 11 and Windows 10 as

well you can see I'm using the windows

11 computer

so I will click on backup and

restore and here we can see create a

system image create a system repair dis

which is completely a different thing we

we are here to backup and restore files

we are going to learn that so it says

Windows backup has not been set up setup

backup so I will click on set up

backup and here it will show you the

external drive connected if you do if

you do not have any flash drive or pen

drive or external drive connected you

will not see anything your built-in

Drive won't show here so I have plugged

in my backup drive and it is showing

right here if you have the drives on the

network you can click on Save on a

network and it will look for the

location you can browse it and select

the computer and select the location of

the network you can do that so I have

selected this uh backup drive and here I

will click on next it it also says a

system image cannot be saved so it will

not save the system image as the system

image can only be saved in the same

computer itself all right so I'll click

on next and it

says what do you want to back up let

Windows choose recommended so what will

this will do it will back up your

desktop files Library like pictures

music photos videos like that and the

downloads folder the default Windows

folders these items will be backed up on

a regular schedule and if you want to uh

back up a specific thing what you can do

is you can select let me choose and

click on next and this will this will

show you where exactly what exactly you

want to back up so I'll just uncheck

this

and I'll click on this and from here you

can go with the users so let's say I'm

using this user then I can select the

desktop documents downloads favorites

like that and if you have any other

drive if you want to back up if you have

created few folders you can select

according to your convenience all right

so please make sure you spend a good

amount of time to select the right

folders and once you're satisfied you

can simply click on next and here you

can change the schedule how often you

want to backup the files so run the

backup on a schedule you can do that you

can also manually do it so to do the

manual you just have to uncheck it and

you need to come here and always click

on backup files if you do not want to do

that you can run on weekly basis daily

basis on monthly basis I do it on weekly

basis and on what day you want to you

can select that at what time you want

you can also select that and once you're

done you just need to click on okay and

save settings and run back up all right

so this is how to backup the files on

Windows 10 or Windows 11 uh 11 computer

now how you can restore it so you need

to come back here so the very first time

we clicked on set up backup and and now

if you want to restore those you need to

click select another backup to restore

files from now let's say if you have any

external drive which has the backup it

will show right here since I do not have

any restore um I haven't backed up so it

will not show here you can also select

the location uh if you have this on

network by clicking on browse all right

so this is how you just have to select

that backup and you just need to click

on next and your files will be recovered

in a new computer as well all right so

this is how you can back up and restore

on Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer if

you find this tutorial helpful and if

you have any queries any concern do let

me know in the comment section I'll try

my best to resolve your issue okay and

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have successfully set up the backup all

right I'll see you in the the next

tutorial have a wonderful day