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Creating a backup is a must if not a necessity for a SysAdmin job. Backup doesn't need to be complex or needs a very powerful software to do a backup. At the end of the day, whether it's a good commercial software creating a backup; what it does in the background is create another copy of the file or folders that needs to be backed up. So, for that reason a simple copy command with the existing tool in Windows can do a job also for some simple backup like logs or other files. Why need to backup the logs? In a security perspective and audit purposes, logs are very important. Of course, it will also depend on the contents of the log whether it is quite detailed or important data is captured like username, IP Address, time, files and folder being accessed and other data. Problems or issues may not be detected in real-time or issues maybe notice at a later time but the action that cause the issue happened some time ago as well, in which the only witness are the logs. A simple batch...

Differential or Incremental backup are part of the options that need to be selected when installing a backup software. Or the system admin has to choose which backup strategy he or she will adapt. Backup is very important so you have something to rely on when disaster strikes. So, what’s the difference between differential and incremental backup? Which one is better? Differential backup – contains  the files that have changed since the last full backup. So, if the full backup was Sunday, Monday will have files that changed since  Sunday  backup. For the differential backup of Tuesday, it will contain the files of Monday and the files of Tuesday. Differential backup = requires large space since every differential backup has the files that had changed since the last full backup Incremental backup – backup only the changed data since the last backup. So, if the Full backup was done on Sunday; Monday backup will only have the data that has changed since last Sunday ...

Backup is a simple word that has a very good significant value in today’s digital world. Unattended backup or automated backup is a good strategy, so the user or the whoever is managing the backup won't need to manually trigger the backup. No data backup is a head-on strategy, that leads to catastrophe. Backup is very, very important in today’s digital world. You will never know when a data disaster will strike. The whole laptop will be lost, the hard drive will fail without any sign, a virus might corrupt the whole system or just simple mistake to overwrite or delete a data. All this scenario requires a backup rescue to recover the data. Robocopy is a built-in command in Windows that does a pretty awesome job to backup or copy files. Using Windows task scheduler, robocopy and Vbscript will create an important task to backup data. How the three tools will be used, to backup data? Robocopy – to backup or copy the files Vbscript – to hide the roboco...

How to use datedif function in Excel? How to find date difference between two dates in Excel? How to find date difference by month, year or days in Excel? Excel has a built-in function and does the heavy lifting to date difference between two dates. Excel uses the “datedif” function to easily compute the date difference  by days, months or years. Notice the Datedif function has a single “f” at the end it’s not DateDiff. If you accidentally type double “f” at the end of the function excel will return an error and will just display “#NAME?” which basically means that the function is not recognized by Excel. Here’s the function: =DATEDIF(A1,C1,"d")  ==== > this function find the date difference by days for the values of A1 and C1 =DATEDIF(A3,C3,"m")  ==== > this function find the date difference by months for the values of A3 and C3 =DATEDIF(A5,C5,"y")  ==== > this function find the date difference by yea...

  Creating a system image is the most neglected step when a user buys a computer. But it’s quite important, so when the system slows down and formatting the hard drive is one of the best options. System image will come into the picture. How to launch or use Windows 7 to create a system image? Press the Windows key, and on the search box type “backup”. On the search result, click on “Backup and Restore” (check image below) Control Panel will open, on upper left corner of the window. Click “Create System Image”. (check image below)   System Image window will open and will prompt where to save the image. Windows will automatically check the available options on the system; if an external drive is connected to the computer it will be included on the option. Or you can opt to select DVD if you want the image to be on DVDs. (check image below) Upon selecting where to save the backup click the “next” button. I had ...