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You have two very simple ways to do backups in your HDA.
= Full Disk Backups =
>> [[PBABackups|See more details about the PBA]]
= More Periodic File Backups =* The PBA app provides a simple user-friendly interface One of the ways to backup and restore entire hard disk drives over the systems in your network. This functionality is similar to that of commercial products such as Norton Ghost Server, but there is no added cost for additional software or hardware. This feature simplifies consumer hard disk use the operating-system provided backup down to very simple stepssystem.* The intended audience is any user that wants a no-hassles backup solution. All you need We have documented how to do is power [[VistaBackups|periodic file backups in Windows Vista on the machine you want to backup/restore, boot from the network and select what you want to backup.* The PBA app backs up the entire hard disk. The MBR, partition table and all partitions are copiedyour HDA]]. The Personal Backup Appliance aims to be an easy and fast backup solution. Most partitions types such as NTFS, FAT16/32, and ext3 are supported by tools that understand the filesystem, so only the data is copied, and empty space is ignored. This makes copying very fast. For other partition types, raw copies are made. The technology working behind the scenes in PBA is not new. In fact, many of the open source programs and tools used in PBA have been around for a long time. The innovation in PBA is in the presentation and the integration of these programs and tools.* Thanks to Roland Hui for helping port the personal backup appliance to the HDA!
