Looking for a backup tutorial? No matter how big or small your backup needs are, Top-Windows-Tutorials will help you backup and safe guard your important data

Time to safeguard your data! If you need a backup tutorial you have come to the right place! With our help even novice computer users can implement an effective backup strategy. From burning a CD of your most important files to backing up your entire computers hard drive, over the coming months our tutorials will cover every possibility.

Not sure which backup program meets your needs, or even how to go about backing up your data? See our introduction to backup and our planning a backup pages.

Writing a CD is one of the easiest ways to backup files and folders on your computer. If you only have a few important files and you are disciplined enough to carry out this procedure regularly, this is a low cost way to protect your data.

InfraRecorder is a powerful free CD and DVD writing program that is more than capable of most common CD and DVD recording tasks.

The Windows XP Backup Utility provides basic backup functionality and is included free with all versions of Windows XP.

Windows XP Backup Utility Tutorial 1 - Installation
Windows XP Backup Utility Tutorial 2 - Making a Backup
Windows XP Backup Utility Tutorial 3 - Schedule and Advanced Options

With Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced a host of powerful new backup options, including Shadow Copy and disk imaging. Our tutorials will show you how you can take advantage of Vista's new backup tools.

Windows Vista Backup Tutorial 1 - Introduction to the Backup and Restore Center
Windows Vista Backup Tutorial 2 - Backup files and folders
Windows Vista Backup Tutorial 3 - Backup an entire hard drive

The Windows 7 Backup Utility is vastly improved compared to both the Windows Vista and Windows XP backup utilities. The tutorials below will show you how to use this great new version of the Windows Backup Utility.

Tutorial 1 - Configuring an automatic backup
Tutorial 2 - Restoring files from a backup
Tutorial 3 - Restoring a system image

Acronis True Image 2012 is now available and after some small issues with the software initially, we can now confidently give the new version our seal of approval! If you've been waiting to upgrade from a previous version there's no reason to wait any longer, True Image is back and better than ever.

Tutorial 1 - Installing Acronis True Image 2012
Tutorial 2 - Your first backup
Tutorial 3 - Restoring files or disks from a backup
Tutorial 4 - Creating bootable rescue media
Tutorial 5 - Using bootable rescue media

Our Acronis True Image 2011 are still available here.

Tutorial 1 - Installing Acronis True Image 2011
Tutorial 2 - Your first backup
Tutorial 3 - Restoring files or disks from a backup
Tutorial 4 - Creating bootable rescue media
Tutorial 5 - Using bootable rescue media

EaseUS Disk Copy is quick and free solution for backing up hard drives. It runs outside of Windows from a CD/DVD or USB device.

EaseUS Todo Backup 4 is a fantastic free backup program that can handle full disk backup tasks normally reserved for more expensive backup softawre.

Our Genie Backup Manager tutorials provide a gentle introduction to this powerful, feature rich backup solution.

Tutorial 1 - Installing Genie Backup Manager
Tutorial 2 - Making your first backup
Tutorial 3 - Restoring files from a backup
Tutorial 4 - Scheduling an automatic backup
Supplimental tutorial - Improving the scheduler (Windows Vista and Windows 7 only)

Oops backup is the ideal solution for home users wanting to protect their valuable documents, photos and multimedia files easily and effectively.

Tutorial 1 - Installing Oops Backup
Tutorial 2 - Configuring Oops Backup
Tutorial 3 - Restoring files from a backup