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Drive imaging

Backing Up Computers and Drives

Backing up your digital data is a critical step to protect against data loss due to hardware failure, software issues, or cyberattacks. In the O&O DiskImage Help, under the Back up drives tab, you will find all the necessary functions and instructions to effectively back up, duplicate, or restore your drives.

Backing up drives

This chapter provides a comprehensive guide to protecting your data. It explains in detail how to:

• Create complete system backups to secure your entire system including all applications, settings, and files.
• Perform selective drive backups to back up specific drives or partitions – ideal for regular backups of important data.
• Utilize advanced backup options, such as compression and encryption, to make your backups efficient and secure.

Whether you are an experienced IT professional or a home user, the following pages will help you maximize the benefits of O&O DiskImage and effectively protect your data.

Read next:

• Cloning
  • Cloning options
    • Ignoring bad sectors
    • Lock a drive
    • Set read method
    • Create a profile for cloning
    • Force writing method
    • Write over unused sectors
  • Clone drives
• Image
  • Drive imaging
  • Incremental or differential imaging
  • One-click image
  • Image of the changes
  • Imaging options
    • Select imaging method
    • Specify the size of an image file
    • Encryption
    • Compress image
    • Exclude files from an image
    • Exclude data from compression
    • Lock a drive
    • Ignore bad sectors
    • Data comparison with checksums
    • Use profiles for drive imaging
• Restoration
  • Drive restoration
  • Restoration options
    • Create a restoration profile
    • Force writing method
    • Overwrite unused sectors