Rescuing the Ghost recovery system after the desktop file is lost

Two days before receiving the call from the reader, complaining about the backup industry's veteran software Ghost. He said that he had done a Ghost backup to prevent the system from crashing, but when he recovered the system today, he found that the desktop files, favorites and system wallpapers disappeared...

There is no name here for Ghost, because this Kinds of backups are generally only for the current system, and later system settings and changes will not be recorded. Do we have to manually back up the changed files before restoring the system? In fact, as long as you do some "small actions" before Ghost, you can solve this problem.

First, create a backup set of content

us that little trick is Backup Magic (Download: http: //www.greendown.cn/Software/catalog32/3130.html). Run the software, click the "New Backup Set" button, click the "Group" → "Add" menu item, enter the group name in the "Add Group" dialog box that pops up, for example, you want to back up the "My Documents" content now. You can enter "My Documents" (the name can be used here, but it is best to help you identify it in the future). After clicking "OK", you will see it in the list on the left side of the window. Use this method to add more groups, such as favorites, desktop files, and more. Next, select the group name and specify the source and destination directories in the right panel (as shown).

Backup Magic

Variables can be used under both "Source Directory" and "Target Directory", where the variables available in the "Source Directory" have "%MYDOCUMENTS%" (corresponding "My Documents" and "%DESKTOP%" (corresponding to the "Desktop" folder), and there are more variables available under "Target Directory". Here are some of the most commonly used ones summarized in the following table:

The parameters in the table can be used together. For example, enter the string "E:\\Backup\\%YYYY%-%MM%-%DD%" under "Target directory", assuming that the current backup date is June 10, 2006. Then a folder of "E:\\Backup\\2006-06-10" will be created at the target location to store the backup content.

To specify include or exclude certain files, set the filter criteria in the panel. Use the wildcard "*" to indicate all directories or files. The backup form generally selects "incremental mode". Finally, don't forget to save the settings using the "File" → "Save" command.
After creating a new backup set, you need to verify that it works. The test method is to click the "Tools" → "Start Backup" menu item. Of course, you can also find the saved backup set file name (extension bms) through the resource manager and double-click it to run. You can also place the backup set file on the desktop, so that the backup can be completed more quickly.

If you need to run certain programs before and after the backup (for example, sometimes you need to check the corresponding files before the backup), you need to enter the settings under the "External Programs" tab.

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Examples Example 1: Backup "C: \\ My Documents" (contains subfolders) E content to the disc.

Select "Source Directory" as "C:\\My Documents", target directory as "E:\\My Documents", select "Include Subdirectories"; in "Filter Conditions Containing Directories" and "Filter Contains Enter "*" under "Conditions of file".

Example 2: Backup "C: \\ My Documents" (contains subfolders) E content to the disk, but does not include Office backup files of the folder (the folder assuming similar "backup of mysheet Backup files such as .xls"" and "text.bak").
In addition to "Filtering the conditions of excluded files", enter "backup *;*.bak" (in the middle of the English semicolon interval two types Other settings are the same as the above example.

Example 3: Backing up the Windows registry file

The source directory is "C:\\Windows" and the target directory is "E:\\" registry backup ", do not select the include subdirectories," "fill in under" system.dat filter criteria include files;. user.dat "

you can add content to the above three cases in the form of a group of In the backup set file, all files can be backed up by running once.

Common file backup path:

Favorites: C:\\Documents and Settings\\username\\Favorites< BR>Desktop file: C:\\Documents and Settings\\username\\desktop
Screensaver: C:\\WINDOWS\\system32 .scr file
topic: C: \\ WINDOWS \\ Resources \\ Themes