Backing Up your Windows NT Data

What to Back Up

It is not necessary or desirable to back up your entire Windows NT hard drive. Windows NT itself and any applications you use can be re-installed should your hard drive fail. But it is necessary to back up your personal files, including email and bookmarks.

Backing up your personal files is easiest if you try to keep all the files you create in one location. By default the programs that came installed on your computer save documents to C:\Home\Main. You should save all of your files in subfolders of C:\Home\Main.

You'll also need to backup up your email, bookmark and preferences files. See the table below for some default locations of these files.

Tip: If you back up the folder C:\Home\Main, you will automatically back up your Eudora Pro mailboxes, address book and preferences, and your WS_FTP Pro preferences.

Eudora Pro
	all user files	C:\Home\Main\Mail
If you prefer to backup your mailboxes, address book and preferences separately:
	mailboxes	C:\Home\Main\Mail\*.mbx Note: You'll need to backup each of your mailbox files, eg, In.mbx, Out.mbx, and any other mailboxes you've created. Just be sure to back-up all *.mbx files in C:\Home\Main\Mail.
	attachments	C:\Home\Main\Mail\Attach\
	address book	C:\Home\Main\Mail\nndbase.txt
	preferences	C:\Home\Main\Mail\Eudora.ini
WS_FTP Pro
	sites and preferences	C:\Home\Main\Ws_FTP.ini
Netscape Communicator
	email	C:\NSTemp\usrpriv\Mail
	bookmarks	C:\NSTemp\usrpriv\bookmark.htm
	address book	C:\NSTemp\usrpriv\pab.na2
	newsgroups	C:\NSTemp\usrpriv\News
	preferences	C:\NSTemp\usrpriv\prefs.js
Internet Explorer
	bookmarks	C:\Winnt\Profiles\usrpriv\Favorites
MSOffice
	dictionary	C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\custom.dic

 

There may be other files you wish to back up, depending on what programs you use and where these programs save data.

How to Back up

To back up your files, use WS_FTP Pro to connect to your account.

In the left (Local System) window of WS_FTP, double-click once on the green arrow to move to the directory C:\Home.

Click once on the Main folder, and click the right pointing arrow.

Click Yes in the dialog box that opens. This confirms that you want to back up the Main directory, and all files and subdirectories in Main.

If you have other files to backup: In the left (Local System) window of WS_FTP, browse to the location of each file or directory you wish to back up. Once you find a file or directory to be backed up, click on it once to highlight it, and then click the right pointing arrow to send a copy to your account.

When you have backed up all the necessary files, close the connection, and click Exit.

 

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