Yes. If you have XP Home and you want to use the NT backup utility (as I do)
then you'll have to install it from the XP Home cd.
Once installed the accompanying wizard will walk you through the procedure:
what to backup and when. One note of caution - to schedule the backup to
happen daily (for example) you will be using the task scheduler which
requires that your account have a password. This is annoying but the easiest
way to deal with this is just to add a password to your account before you
run the wizard.
There is not much point in backing your stuff up to the same physical disk
as the one the stuff lives on. If you are really keen on getting useful
backups then splurge on getting a second physical disk installed. Then
target the backups to that disk.
I do a full (or, as ntbackup calls it: "normal") backup of C: once in a
while (every couple of months) and I do daily differentials. This means that
if I do a full backup on July 1 and then a bunch of differentials, each
differential contains all the files that changed since July 1. So, to
recover from a lost disk the most recent differential can be used but since
I keep all the intervening differntials, I can also recover old versions of
changed files. I actually have never felt the need to do this, but I have
piles of disk space and so why not do it?
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