How to backup your stuff in Windows 10 

Finally, after an hour of scrolling through some terrible videos, a presentation that is clear, concise and easy to understand. No fancy ego trips and useless chatter, just good solid imparting of knowledge. Well done Dave. I'll be looking out for more of your 'stuff'. Thanks

It's a breath of fresh air to see a guide that is actually ordered and concise and is actually helpful :)

Wow, I am 72 yrs old and I am going to start backing up my computer by using a external drive. You have made this so easy to understand. I just subcribed. Thank you

Excellent video and perfect for a non-techy senior like me. Really appreciate you making this video in an easy to follow and understand way.

Thank you. At last an instructional tech video that even a oldie (67) like me can understand! Clear, concise and well ordered. I have deleted all the other 'tech' videos, now you are my go-to for tech support. Huge relief to find you.

This is a wonderful guide to backups. I appreciate the straightforward presentation and easy to follow instructions. I’ll be checking out your other videos.

Excellent presentation on backing up on Windows 10. Clear, well spoken and easy to understand. Thank you so much.

Clear, concise, helpful, easy to understand and relaxing to watch , you are the best by far!! thank you so very much!

Thank you Dave, i just back up my desk top ,(using OneDrive) after watching your video. you gave simple info.I felt so confident after watching your video. from now on your videos will be my go to. will also be getting a Seagate for a second backup. Thanks again from sunny florida.

Really good. Watching all your Backup videos now. So clear and relaxing! I'm not panicking now. Many thanks.

This is the best tutorial I have ever seen. Very detailed, step by step, and I could understand every word that was said, which is rare with most of the tutorials I have seen. Thank you!

Dave I am very impressed with your tutorials...not filled with a lot of fluff just pertinent information! Great job and thanks for teaching everyone what we need to know re computer knowledge!

Dave, this is a really well done tutorial. I'll be sharing this with friends and neighbors. Cheers.

Dave I wanted to personally thank you for producing this awesome video. As a blind person, I found your video to be very informative, I do appreciate the way you described all the steps necessary and the different ways of backing up in Windows 10. Thanks so much for producing awesome videos such as this one.

There is nothing more important, in a vulnerable moment like this than protecting our data with adequate and cutting-edge systems, which know how to evolve as hacker attacks evolve! It is essential for companies to get culture on this aspect that should not be underestimated and consider backup a fundamental tool to be used every day, also because the costs to be faced after an attack are really onerous!

I can finally stop worrying about my files not being backed up properly thanks to this presentation. You made it precise and clear so even someone like me is not intimidated by computer tasks like this. I setup backups both ways, and I will sleep much better now! Thank you!

This video helped me a lot because I’m a musician and I needed too know how to back up my files

I appreciate your idea of backing up BOTH on the cloud and on an external hard drive, and since my research and writing is irreplaceable, that's what I am going to do. NOW. Thank you for making a clear video that covers all my questions!

I love the simplicity of this video, thank you!

I actually used a couple of his advice for our company backup. Nice video. Very clear and precise. Excellent explanation.

Thanks for the reminder Dave, just completed a file history backup and about to do a windows image backup.

Best guide Ever! Clear, easy to follow. Finally been able to back with my sea gate. My boss will be relieved 🤙🏾Thank youuuu

Thank you for showing people all the different options to backup files and for sharing some tips. Excellent video Dave!

Concise and to the point. I wish I had discovered Dave's Tech Rescue channel before. Thank you so very much.

Dave, thank you so much your presentation is pretty clear,simple and very very useful.well done Dave because you are really doing a great job and looking forward to see your next videos.

Brilliant! I backed up my PC on 2 different external hard drives. Your instructions are really easy to follow. Thank you so much!

Thank you, Dave, for your thorough, very clearly explained, instructions. I've done my backup (on an external drive). Your tutorials are so helpful. Please keep up your good work. A. from Canada.

I'm going to back up right now. thanks for the motivation.

thank you sir Dave this video of yours really helps me lot cause i'm not an I.T expert.you really talked so fast but i like it cause its clear and precise.love from the PHILIPPINES

Excellent, I finally understood how to backup my data in my Seagate backup driver

What a great tutor you are Dave, backed up my files easy , thanks.

Excellent tutorial on backing up data! My hard drive did crash and fortunately my computer technician was able to save my data. I now have the external hard drive for backing up my data. Thank you again for sharing this information.

Thanks lot Dave for this super simplified tutorial.

This information is REALLY well done, easy to understand (clearly articulated) and easy to follow. I'll look for his videos from now on. THANK YOU!!

100% even to me a pity other videos don't come up to this standard. Thank you

i have tried many different backups BUT you have explained it so good that it worked 1st time - great work and thank you

Thank you! Just did a backup with your help.

Brilliant - good clear English and a planned and orderly lesson. Easy to follow: in fact I backed up my computer within 5 minutes of listening/watching Dave Tech Rescue. Thank you.

I agree with many of the comments - you have done an excellent tutorial that so many of us out here need..a million thanks!

Mate, you are awesome at explaining everything. A huge thank you for your fantastic video!

Thank you very much Dave. After watching your video in which you made it ridiculously easy to do a backup, I have done a backup onto One Drive and I have done a manual backup as well. Thank you very much.

Thank you so much. This was so easy to understand and follow along. I backed up all my data using an external hard drive and OneDrive just by following long with your directions.

I was both terrified and clueless when it comes to computers and all that it entails. After some searching on how to backup I found your excellent video. As you had said, I was able to back up my computer for the first time ever by following your easy to follow instructions. You are very professional but easy to follow, thank you for that. I'll look at your other downloads, I'm sure there is something I should be using

I watched several videos on this topic and couldn't understand it, I saved this video, gave it a thumbs up and subscribed to it due to the simplicity, pictures on "how to" and Dave who spoke clearly and in untechy terms that I could understand. I learned a lot from this video and plan on going the external hard drive and the One Drive method. Thank you!

I have always backed up just my docs and photos using copy and paste method. Did not know how to do the full backup. Thank you. Very clear & I like that you go through each step slowly enough so I could follow.

What a great tutorial, finally I understand and can do it myself - thank you & subscribed

I tried to restore my computer with this feature but found I have no restore point, and my computer is not bootable, I finally made a bootable disk with aomei backupper and made a image on another one to get my pc back to normall.

Excellent video !! Simple, thorough and easy to follow. Highly recommending Dave. 👍

Thanks Dave. That was one of the best tutorials on you tube that I have ever watched. I am going to backup on an external hard drive. After watching this I just subscribed.

What a really good tutorial. Thank you for making it easy to follow and understand.

I have just bought a Seagate Basic 1TB. Your video is very helpful in explaining how to use it. Thanks from Canada.

Another excellent presentation, thank you Dave !

Thanks, an easy to follow video of how to back up. Eases the confusion and anxiety over setting up the backup.

So glad I found your channel. You would make such an amazing IT teacher....

Just learned from you the informations I need. Clear and precise. Thank you.

The golden rule is.....NEVER store any valuable data in just one place.

MANY THANKS MR. DAVE FOR PROVIDING GREAT INSTRUCTIONS FOR BACKUP FILES. IT'S VERY HELPFUL TO LEARN. LOOK FORWARD TO GO BACK & REVIEW AGAIN.

Thanks Dave, I've learnt so much from this video. simple and clear for us to understand. Thank you..

Thank you so much Dave for such a clear explanation . Yours is the clearest video of them all! I find backing up so difficult and confusing and I always forget how to do it.... I just lost 4 years of photos and videos as my hard drive broke completely just recently and i forgot to save all my photos.....trying not to think about it. But now I have it ALL written down so i will print it out and follow it every time. ( The only thing I was surprised about was that you have to copy and paste all your files into the cloud folder - I though that it picked it all up automatically or by confirmation.) Anyway, thanks you're a star!x

Thank you so much! your video has been so helpful. I can finally use my Seagate back up correctly.

Thank you! My pc had just blue screened and it scared the life out of me so I looked this up. Your voice is so soothing. You seem really nice and I subbed to you! Thanks for your help

Thank you so much Dave. I have a Samsung all in one, Windows 10 and decided I should do an external backup and purchased a Maxone. This video was so clear and concise and I can’t thank you enough. I decided to do a back up using File History, for my first time. ❤

I just set up the One Drive option thanks to this video. Appreciate it very much. and yes I liked and subbed because I like the way you explained things.

Thank you so much for these concise and clear explanations on how to create back-ups. I was able to create back-ups right after watching your video. I tried two different methods: Cloud (One Drive) and using a physical storage drive. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. The steps are easy to follow.

Concise well presented information. All you need to know about backing up your files

Excellent, clear presentation. Thank you. I have just migrated to a new desktop with Windows 10. As usual these days, very little (if any) set up advice arrives with the system and I am having to learn 'on the job' what I shold be doing before I lose or compromise the extensive personal data I have on my old Windows 7 set up.. Thank goodness for your clear exposition.

Very informative and to the point. Great speaking and information. This video helped me!

I watched an hours plus number of videos to figure out the difference between the built in auto back up option and how to best format my documents with a manual back up and that this does infact differ from a system image! thank you so so much! Going to subscribe to see what other stuff you've presented information on. Thank you :)

Helped a lot. Your explanation is simple ,comprehensive , to a point. Finally I cleared my mind , what is back up and what choices I have. I decided to use 2 external (2TB) drives. Thanks a million!!! 🥂

Good job of covering all the different methods. I have been struggling to do this for the last couple of days & U have cleared up a few issues well, so I have saved the vid & will do a couple of versions tomorrow morning. Thank U Dave good tutorial & I am now a subscriber.

After many years in I.T. I learned the value of backups. I make regular updates every day using an Access database. One day at home I lost my C drive completely through disk failure. After installing a new drive and Windows I was able to recover all my precious files from the backup. Unbelievably, the following week my hard drive failed at work!!! Yes, backups saved me again. In my work I once had to take a bunch of mag tapes of backed up data from UK to Holland to recover an international system. This we did just from the backups. This really brings home the need for backups. Your precious data may be more valuable to you than your computer. You can replace a computer, but you may not be able to replace your photos and documents etc. Big message: BACK UP YOUR PRECIOUS DATA REGULARLY.

Thanks Dave, for a clear and concise video for a newbie!

Thank you for the video Dave, it was very useful for me.

A great tutorial. So clear and slow enough that you able to get all the information.

Clear, easy, concise. Thankyou sooo much!

Thanks Dave, years later your video is still helping people. Well done! June of 2022 We purchased the Seagate 4T Backup plus portable drive. You started me thinking that a One drive would be another good idea incase of something happening here at home. I will subscribe to your channel for future tutorials. Thanks again, Jeff

Thanks, Dave. This was so helpful for my Windows 11 (watching this in May 2024)....I used the "manual backup" method along with also having all documents & photos, etc. backed up in the Windows "OneDrive" on my computer.....I sent a link to this video to my brother also.........You're the best!!!

Thank you. That was excellent and well explained. I wasnt able to do an external drive backup using File History as its kept giving me a message "your data is not yet backup up" after a few seconds, so i just did the Manual backup from your instructions. Thank you!

Excellent help, thank you so much!

Hey Dave, that was clear and concise, well done. Just got a refurb Dell and getting data off the old PC (power supply dying) to the new was way easier than it used to be with OneDrive. Thanks!

Thanks. I will try all the backup methods you gave us

Finally, a video that explains the subject matter in a simple and concise format. Thank you, Dave., I've just become a fan. See you very soon and thanks for this.

This video makes things so clear and easy to follow! Thanks so much.

You are a fabulous teacher. Keep it up!!! Sincerely!

A really useful video - explains backing up well.. thanks

Great thanks from S.Korea. Was struggling to backup 30GB of constantly used files safely. Thumbs up!

Very interesting and clean explanation. Surely I will follow up and start backing up at least once a month. Thank you.

Could've done with this sort of clear info ages ago ! Soooo' many lost history ! Thanks.

Yes, great clear explanation! Thanks!

This is exactly what I needed in order to transfer my files to an external drive.

WOW! ✨🤗✨. WHERE in gosh-name have you been hiding, young man?!? I just turned 69 Feb. 2, and did not think ‘presenters’ like you existed!!! Thank you SO MUCH for wanting to provide such helpful information, concise/simple to understand/clearly stated. PLEASE continue helping folks like me; TONS of us out here... lol🤪. I am looking forward to following the channel. Again, thank you.

Wonderful, wonderful. I'm a long time computer user. I'm sure there are a lot of great tech videos on youtube but after decades I haven't found many. A vast wasteland. This guy does it perfectly. I cannot understand why he is not famous and rich.

good job of explaining the steps with good visuals.

Thank you. I will be using the Cloud and on a hard disk. I have had other hard disk, but I do not know how to retrieve a backup. You give really clear examples. Thanks again.

Love your work. Clear, easy to follow...thank you!!

Very good explanation . I liked the presentation which concentrated on being informative and concise unlike some who spend twice as long to get their point across. Keep making videos Dave

Excellent video, really easy to understand, very well presented. Many thanks

Finally I was able to backup my EasyStore with clear directions. I'm going to go get another different one so I have two drives I can alternate to be sure I have all of the artists documents and photographs. Thank you.

Man you are the best! Things that I thought was so difficult, you make it so easy.

You are amazing, I am "older" and have a hard time keeping up, but you made everything so clear and easy to understand. Thank you, Thank you