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How to Backup Windows Server 2016 Step by Step?

Post author By Mehdi Karimi
Post date September 9, 2017
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Everyone cares about the data he has and to save it from danger or accident, you need to have a backup of it otherwise even it is not granted a minute. What the benefits of backup are insufficiently you know or might have experienced, and here are they: convenience, safety, ease of recovery, ease of access, affordability etc for e.g: it protects operating system, system state, files, folders, application data, etc and if you lose all of them, you are comfortable because you’re able to restore them again from the backup.

Also, you can perform one-time full backup or schedule backup and you can store backup files in the internal hard drive, external hard drive, USB flash drive, DVD. If you use a USB flash as a backup storage, be sure it is NTFS format and a USB flash drive is suitable for one-time backup, for scheduled backup storage use the hard drive or portable/external hard drive but I recommend backing on external hard disk and its the best way because if you lost your data from internal drive then you can recover it back from external hard drive. If the backup plan is scheduled, the server will automatically backup the server in a specified time and specified the place. While last time server takes a backup, as a result the previous backup files will be replaced by the new one. In this article, I show you how to backup windows server 2016 step by step.

Backup Windows Server 2016 Step by Step

Before we start, you need to plan where and how the backup should perform for e.g: where to store the backup files, where to backup whether one drive or whole system and should the backup be scheduled or perform once now.

#1 Install Windows Server Backup Feature

1. At the first step, what we need to do is install the Windows Server Backup feature in order to backup the server. Open Server Manager, click on Manage and select Add roles and features, skip the welcome page by hitting Next then hit Next>Next>Next until the Features page appears. On the Select Features page, scroll down and choose Windows Server Backup feature then hit Next button. The Windows Server Backup is not a role, it is a feature, so don’t get confused.

2. No reboot is needed for this feature installation, hit the Install button, it takes a while, be patient!

#2 Create a Backup Plan/Backup system

1. Once the Windows Server Backup feature installation finished, you’re ready to create a backup plan means you can backup now, before doing that put a glance down on backup plans and decide which one to do.

Backup Plans

Full Server (All volumes): If you choose the option, you backup all files and it is the best option.

Critical Volume: choose this option to backup some critical files and folders.

System State: Choose this option to backup files that are needed for system state recovery.

Individual Volumes: You can backup one volume by choosing this option.

Folders and files: You can backup single folders and files choosing this option.

2. Now that you’ve selected a backup plan you’re prompted to do a backup, to do that;

open Server Manager and click on Tools then click on the Windows Server Backup option from drop-down list to open backup server.

3. When the Windows Server Backup opened, on the Action side bar three option are available, Backup schedule, backup once and recover and schedule backup: it creates a time-based backup upon the schedule means the server automatically takes backup in the specified time and the Backup once option is for one-time backup so, select Backup once option because here we’ll backup once to show you on.

4. On the Backup options page, two options are available, choose the Different options. This option is used when you haven’t created schedule yet. then, hit Next.

5. As mentioned before, the Full server backup does a full server backup, by choosing this, you backup everything on the server. If you don’t like to do that, a Custom option is available to let you specify some of the folders, files, etc to backup.

6. Specify the Destination drive you want to save backup files, so, I select the Local drives in order to select the hard drive I want in the next step.

7. Here try to save the files to a separate hard drive, you can’t save backup files in C:\ drive, there for save it in another place. If you choose a local drive, certainly backup server give you warning that the drive is in the backup list. I don’t pay attention to because I have created a separate drive for the backup files, you do so.

9. Finally, we are done, begin the backup process by clicking on Backup button and take a rest. Certainly, it takes a while but it depends on your files, folders…

Conclusion

So, we did windows server backup successfully and you learned how to backup windows server fully. Don’t worry if you don’t know how to use the backup files means to restore them, We are here to show you. I show how to use them in next articles. For any question about taking a backup, feel free and leave a comment.

See next: How to Backup Active Directory Fully in Windows Server 2016?

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How to Backup Photos & Videos to Google Photos Automatically?

Post author By Karar
Post date July 19, 2017
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A phone is an important thing of your life. In fact, every time you’re using them and saving it so that you don’t lose them. But if I lose my content from my phone the only thing I would be thinking of is my memories of photos & videos and you might be the same. Or, if you have got 16GB or 32GB phone, then you’ll be counting every KB included. Thus, you would be afraid of recording or taking pictures often, while they are the heart of a phone like the heart of ocean in Titanic. No worries, because we have got the solution of your problems whether its storage or backup. In this article, we will be showing you the solution of your problems and working with Google Backup.

Note: This app/service work for all Computer, Android, iOS devices.

So What’s Google Backup?

Introducing, Google Photos – a complete cloud backup solution, which allows you to manage & save photos and videos in unlimited cloud storage. The procedure of saving photos and videos will be done automatically ones captured or will capture in future. Also, it manages them quickly based on their faces, location, whats in the picture. Want them private? No worries, nothing will be shared anywhere, anytime unless you would like to. Moreover, it will cost you nothing if you choose the high-quality (free unlimited storage) option which is the best option. However, you’ve two options to choose.

How does it work?

The Google Photos upload and works automatically once installed. Just sign in with your Google account and you’ll get started. For using Google Photos, you’ll need to plan for one of the following.

High Quality: Unlimited free storage for photos and videos that reduce the size and resolution of pictures to 16MP and videos to 1080P. For, e.g., if you’ll have a picture above 16MP, it will upload to Google Photos and will be reduced to 16MP if you had chosen the High-Quality option, same applies to videos. I recommend this option if you don’t have more than 16MP means you’re using the phone camera to capture.
Original Quality: Limited free storage that uses Google Drive storage in your Google Account. All photos and videos are stored in the same resolution that you took them. It is recommended for photos that have more than 16MP and videos with more than 1080p.

What does it needs to backup:-

Back up your photos and videos

You need:

A Google Account and the Google Photos app on your Android or iOS device and on your PC or Mac, you can go to the website or just download the Backup & Sync app which is recently came to the internet.

Good internet connection.
File sizes that can be backed up: Your files won’t be backed up if they are:
- Photos larger than 75 MB or 100MP
- Videos larger than 10 GB.
- Items smaller than 256 x 256.
File types that can be backed up:
- Photos: .jpg, .png, .webp and some RAW files.
- Live photos can be backed up if you use the Google Photos app on your iPhone or iPad.
- Videos: .mpg, .mod, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts, and .mkv files.

Want to remove a content? Find out how to omit.

Don’t remove items everywhere

If you delete a photo or video from Google Drive or Google Photos, it won’t be removed from your computer.
If you remove a photo or video from your computer, it won’t be removed from Google Drive or Google Photos.

Once removed, it will be in the trash, and you can restore it within 30 days. It means if you’ve removed an item accidentally or something like that so you can bring it back from there after a long time.

Save Photos & Videos to Google Backup Automatically

The photos & videos are the major part of the content, don’t want to lose them? Let’s start saving them and get rid of counting storage from your phone because you’ve unlimited storage just beside your phone storage.

1. Open Google Photos or if you don’t have click here and install it on your phone.

Download Now: Google Photos

Note: You can install and use Google Backup on any device you want.

2. Now open it and sign in with your Google Account, if you don’t have a Google Account then click here and sign up. Once you’ve signed in, click Get Started.

3. Select Backup & sync and click Continue.

4. Here, you have to choose whether you want free unlimited storage or 15GB your Google account storage. I recommend you to select the free unlimited storage because it not only full-fills your requirements and also provides more than useful features. Also, if you’re taking

Also, if you’re taking pictures with your phone, then this is the best option.

And you are done! Now you’ll see the files will start backing up automatically if you wish to do some settings, so just navigate to the top left-hand side and click on the three lines and will see the options, select Settings, and you’ll be on the settings page.

Here you can set all the things you wish like stop tracking Geo location, Group similar faces, sharing suggest…

Also, those pictures change your plan and do some advanced settings for backup, tap Backup & Sync, and you’ll be there.

You’re all set, now there are no chances to worry about your media contents because you’re backup every time. All of your contents including screenshots, Messenger, Viber, and much more are backup if you enable.

Now you can take pictures without worrying about space, backing, managing and sharing because they are all done automatically once connected to the internet. The same applies to access; you can access them from any device you want.

Want to share it with someone, don’t know how to do? See below.

1. Navigate to the top left corner and click on the three lines and select Share your library.

2. Tap Get Started.

3. Select one or more person or type down the email address you want to share.

4. Now choose whether you want to share all photos or specific one also you can select how long he can access it like a shot.

5. On this page, confirm what settings you have done and hit Send invitation so the user should be notified about and start accessing photos, you’ve shared with.

That’s all. Hope you have learned and find out something new and remember when you have backup all of your content then don’t forget to free up space on your phone by pushing the Free up space button.

Note: The Google Photos will remove those items which are backup in Photos and will just expand storage by deleting those photos which are already backed up.

Go to menu and select Free up space.

Hit Remove and all the photos that are backed up will be removed. Remember, if Google Photos have backup all of your photos and videos, in that case, it will remove all of your photos and videos from your phone.

One thing else, if you delete an item from Photos, it will be omitted from Google Drive too, but it won’t be removed from your device. Despite deleting it from Photos if you want to recover those then it’s pretty easy, no need to worry, just head up to Menu>Trash.

Here you can see all the photos deleted recently or from past, the photos will be deleted from the trash after 60 days.

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How to Backup Active Directory Fully in Windows Server 2016?

Post author By Mehdi Karimi
Post date July 1, 2016
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Managing network is a critical task in the networking world but not much tough with active directory. The Active Directory was first time introduced in Windows Server 2000 for centralized domain management. Before the active directory, Microsoft had added tools to manage users, computers but they were not as efficient as active directory. The Active Directory Services (AD DS) or directly Active Directory (AD) is the repository of management and information. You can manage and have information of every type of information about users, computers, services. Also, it offers excellent services like load balancing, failover cluster. As much as it’s affected that much, you need just to make it relevant and take care of it means you need to take backup of the active directory if someone accidentally delete something or being hacked. Therefore, if the domain controller stops working, you should be able to restore the data back. Don’t worry, because we have the every solution of your problem, let’s move on and do it now.

Backup Active Directory in Windows Server 2016

The Active directory backup is not much involved. Indeed, you can learn and do it easily.

First of all, you need to install the Windows Backup Server, using Server Manager.

1. Open Server Manager, click on Add roles and features, skip the Welcome page clicking on Next button, then select the server you want to install the backup server on, click on Next button. It is not the role; it is a feature, skip the select Server Roles page. In the feature page, scroll down and check the Windows Server Backup, hit Next!

2. In the Confirm installation selections page, click on Install button. Take a rest, because it takes a while, no reboot is needed.

3. Now on the Server Manager, click on Tools, then click on Windows Server Backup at the end of the list to open the server.

4. Now the server backup is opened, click on backup once. If you like to make a schedule for active directory backup, so click on Backup schedule.

5. Select Different options, click on Next button because Different options are used while we don’t have any schedule for backup.

6. On the Select backup configuration page, two options are available, Full Server and Custom. We just want to take backup of the active directory, so we choose the second option.

7. In the Select items for the backup page, click on Add items button, select system state option and click on Ok button. so you are done here, hit next!

8. It is the time to decide where to restore the backup files, Local drives or shared folder; I choose the local drive.

9. In the Select backup destination page, the place for backup files restoration is specified.

10. We are done, so click on the Backup button, take a rest. Let the server do its work.

Backup Active Directory Fully on Windows Server 2016

Conclusion

Ok, hope it was informative and helpful, to restore the Active Directory backup, follow our next article covering restoring active directory’s backup.

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Android

How to Do a Full Backup & Restore Samsung Phones?

Post author By Mohammad Zia
Post date April 14, 2016
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Samsung

The act of deleting and losing files occasionally happens especially of smartphones. There is no guarantee of them anytime but it’s good to know about the way to rescue them from any kind of situation. In this era, the smartphones have become as important as the oxygen for technology lovers. They can’t resist one minute without a phone and also they store their data like photos, videos, contacts, schedule, messages, notes and etc.. to this small portable device. If your smartphone affected by any problem or it lost its data in, so at the time it’s to say goodbye to your whole data. There is nothing worse than losing everything on your phone and then realizing that you never backed anythings up. I recommend you to have a backup plan for your data in order to save them from losing or deleting.

Samsung Kies

The name K.I.E.S. originated as an acronym for “Key Intuitive Easy System”. After version 2.0, the name was shortened to “Kies”. The Samsung Kies connects your mobile phone to your PC, making it easier for you to synchronize data between devices and find new apps and also you can backup or restore your phone. When you connect your mobile device to Kies via a USB cable, you will be automatically notified of any updates to your device firmware that are available, you can download and install it easily.

Backup and Restore Samsung Phones via Kies

1. In the first step, download and install Samsung Kies from Samsung. When the app installed, now connect your smartphone or tablet to your computer via USB cable.

2. Once it connected then get to the Backup/Restore section. Select the files or data to backup or select all to backup everything.

3. When the backup finished successfully, you are done, now if you want to restore your smartphone, click on Restore section then select the files to restore then click on Restore then it will restore your phone but try to be patient because it will take some time depending on your data.

After the device restored, you can keep your files safe and be calm. If you’ve any question, suggestion regarding this, feel free to ask me.

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How to do a Complete Backup & Restore of Samsung Phone?

Post author By Mohammad Zia
Post date March 24, 2016
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Do a Complete Backup of Your Phone

There is no chance of rescuing your data in every situation, we have to be careful of them whether it’s a backup of your smartphone, your iPhone, your photo, your videos or your PC. Every day your phone can be surrounded by any kinds of a thread or error therefore, it’s necessary to have a complete backup from your whole Data. There is nothing worse than losing everything on your phone or computer and then realizing that you never backed anythings.

Smart Switch

Smart Switch is an amazing software which works in Windows, Mac OS, and Android OS. Data backup, restoration, synchronization, and software updates are now managed in Smart Switch. Try Smart Switch’s complete backup and restoration functions. These functions help you back up all your data to your computer at once and easily restore any backed up data, all without any complicated settings and totally free. Also, it helps you to move your personal data (contacts, schedules, memos, messages, and call history), photos, videos, alarms, bookmarks, and miscellaneous preferences in a simple way. By using Smart Switch’s computer version, you can update your device with the latest software and make your smartphone more stable, and perform better.

Download: You can download it from here or just visit Samsung website and download it there too.

Do Complete Backup of Your Phone via Smart Switch

1. Run Smart Switch on your computer and connect your Samsung device using a USB cable, it’ll automatically recognize your Samsung Smartphone. While you’re connected with it then click on More > Preferences > Backup file (select the location for your data) > Backup items ( select the content that you want to backup).

2. Once the Smart Switch determined then click on Backup and then click on Backup to backup your whole data including SD card if you’ve on your smartphone.

3. Ok, now as you see, all my data is backed up via smart switch, just click ok and don’t worry now because you’ve done all you need for your data

Restore Phone from Backup Via Smart Switch

When the backup completed successfully, its time to restore your data if you’ve lost your files fully so you need to restore them without missing any data.

1. Connect up your device to the computer via USB cable then open up the Smart Switch. Click on Restore.

2. Select your backup if you have several backups on your PC or Mac then hit Restore.

After you’ve restored the backup, you can have your files with settings all again without any missing or error.

Ok, that’s it. If you’ve any question, suggestion, ideas to improve our articles, write down below.

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Windows

How to Configure File History Settings in Windows 10?

Post author By Karar
Post date March 3, 2016
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Configure File History Settings

There are different types and ways of backups introduced in Windows 10 as previously we discussed backing up with OneDrive and here we will discuss about file history backup. Reappearing again in windows 10, it is one of the useful and important solutions. File History Settings is a new automated feature for continuously protecting your personal files stored in several key locations. Anytime your personal files change or lost, there will be a copy stored on a dedicated, external storage device of your choice. To set up file history you need the following requirements:

An External Hard Drive: To backup your files using file history settings you need an external hard drive that file history will detect and complete the backup in it.
Enable File History: After enabling file history option, you can remember that my files are backing, but what’s backing? By default, enabling File History will backup only the contents of one drive(C:) but you can change them later and set the timing or do more settings.

Ok, now that you have got this, it’s time to configure file settings in windows, so let’s get started.

Configure & Backup Files using File History

Before getting started, connect the external drive to your computer and make sure its working fine.

1. Open Settings> Update & Security> Backup and click on Add a drive. After clicking, select the external drive you want to backup windows in it.

2. When the automatically backup enabled, click on More options to setup the file history options.

3. Ok, now set the backup options, however, you want like for e.g: the timing and the files versions. Also, you can choose another drive to backup or exclude any folder but remember that you can backup only one drive. To choose another drive to backup just click on Add a folder select the drive and click choose this folder or to exclude any folder scroll down to end the and click on Add a folder and choose the folder.

Notice: The File History Backup can contain only one drive or one drive contents and no more than one drive.

4. Also you can stop using this drive & choose another drive for backup, see advanced options and restore files from a current backup. Ok, after the settings finished, scroll up and click Backup now then wait until the backup finish.

Configure file history settings — Backup Options

When the backup finished successfully, open file explorer and check the back up on your external device.

Restore Files From Backup using File History

After the backup completed successfully, you are ready for the worst and unfortunaly if you’ve lost your files so you can restore your data with the backup again with the same versions.

1. Goto Settings> Update & Security> Backup>More options and scroll down and click Restore Files from a current backup.

2. When the File History Home window opened, wait a while and then you can see the files you had lost, now browse the file and select the files with versions so to do that: select the file and click on the green restore button to restore the file with that version.

Finally, you’ve got your files from the backup with the latest version you wanted. So this was all about configuring file history or backup & restore using file history, if you have any question or suggestion, feedback share with us freely.

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Android

How to Backup & Restore Android Phone

Post author By Karar
Post date March 2, 2016
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Backup & Restore Your Android Phone Data

Backup is one of the most important ways to save your data whether it’s picture, audio, video or any documents and include all your files. In fact, backup is the only solution to assist yourself because if you take backup your data today you won’t be caring about it tomorrow. There is nothing worse than losing your data on your phone or computer and realizing you never backed up anything. Backup lets us restore Android phones.

We can’t guarantee our files, sometimes it may be lost or deleted during the factory reset or it might be erased by any virus or any other situation. These threats are natural so we should try to be strong and defense against them, it is necessary for Android users to have a backup plan for contents like call logs, contacts, music, movies, messages, Photos, and documents. So, In this article, I am going to show you how to backup and restore your android phone easily within just a few steps.

Backup and Restore Android Phone

Phone Transfer

Phone Transfer is an outstanding tool that users can backup or restore their android phone data completely. Also, you can move data from one device to another throw it. Data transfers can also be done within a few steps even between different operating systems – Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Symbian OS. As it supports data, contacts, messages, pictures, call logs, music, videos and all apps are included but we will do it in our upcoming articles you can wait. Here we will have a backup and restore of your phone, so let’s get started.

Note: If your Smartphone is rooted, you can have a backup plan throw Titanium Backup.

1. Connect your android phone to PC and run Phone Transfer on your computer then choose Backup your Phone option.

2. Ok, now select the contents (Contacts, Messages, Photos, Audios, Videos….) to backup and click Start Transfer, select one by one or you can select all of them by simultaneously.

Backup Your Android Phone — Backup Phone

After starting transfer wait for several minutes(depending on your device data) and when the backup finished, click ok to backup/save the phone data completely on your computer.

Backuped Phone — Backed up Phone completely

3. Now to restore your phone, go back to the home page by clicking on it and then click on Restore from Backups and select the method to restore.

Note: You can also restore your phone from another method like Kies, OneDrive & for iOS: iCloud, iTunes.

4. Here you have to choose the contents you want to restore and click Start Transfer.

Note: The restore will find backups on your computer automatically.

When all of your files transmitted to your phone then it will successfully restore and all the files will be copied to it.

So that’s it. If you have any question regarding this, you can share it freely with us.

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How to backup Your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch Using iTunes?

Post author By Faiz Orz
Post date January 23, 2016
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How to backup Your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch Using iTunes

In this article, I am going to show how to backup your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch using iTunes. Whenever you make a backup of your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, you will have a copy of your all data and information with it. then if your device gets damaged, lost or replaced you can restore your data and information to the new device by the backup you created. Now choose a backup method there two methods, backup your device by iCloud or iTunes. So in this article I am just going to show you how to Backup your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch using iTunes. Check this article for How to Backup your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch using iCloud at wikigain.

Differences between iCloud Backup and iTunes Backup

Before you create a backup you need to know the differences between iCloud Backup and iTunes Backup, Learn for here What’s the Difference between iCloud Backup and iTunes Backup?

Backup your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch Using iTunes

You can make a backup with iTunes for your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch on your Windows or Mac os x, no matter what’s the computer OS. An iTunes backup includes nearly all of your device’s data and settings. It saves your backup at your computer hard disk no at any cloud or apple services, so due to this if your PC is replaced, lost or damaged then you will lose your backup also.

Remember: Syncing your device with your computer isn’t the same as making a backup Using iTunes.

Step 1. Connect your device that wants to make a backup of it to your computer via your device cable.

Step 2. Open iTunes then select your device from the bar.

Step 3. Before to make any changes or making a backup, you must save you Purchases apps content. Press (Ctrl + B) to show menu bar in iTunes then go to File > Devices > Transfer Purchases from “Device name”.

Transfer Purchases from... — Transfer Purchases from…

Step 4. Click on Summary from the Settings section.

Step 5. Click and Choose This computer from the backups section and if you want to Encrypt your iTunes backups you can Choose Encrypt backup from backups section under This computer. if you choose Encrypt backup then you need to enter a Password for the Encryptions.

Step 6. After Encrypting backup then click on Back Up Now and wait until the backup gets finished.

How to backup Your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch Using iTunes? — Back Up Now

Step 7. After the process ends, you can see if your backup finished successfully in iTunes Preferences. Press (Ctrl +,) to open iTunes Preferences then click on Devices. You should see the name of your device with the date and time that iTunes created the backup. If you encrypted your backup, you should also see beside the name of your device.

This was all about, How to Backup your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch Using iTunes. If you faced any problem tell us below by comment, Feel free to tell us. we’re waiting for your suggestion.

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