Getting Started with McAfee VirusScan Home Edition
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Safe & Sound
Safe & Sound is a unique backup utility that automatically creates backup files of your documents as you work on them. You can configure Safe & Sound to back up to a different drive, across a network connection, or to a protected area within your local (c:\) drive. If your files become corrupted due to a virus, or your system crashes, or if you lose your files, McAfee’s Safe & Sound utility provides you the ability to recover files using the Safe & Sound Windows or DOS recover utility.
Please note, Safe & Sound is a VirusScan utility that is only functional when McAfee VirusScan Home Edition is installed in conjunction with a Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, or Windows Me operating system.
How Safe & Sound creates automatic backups
When you select to have Safe & Sound automatically create a backup set for you, it creates the first backup set while you are stepping through the Safe & Sound Wizard. Thereafter, while the Enable Automatic Backup option is selected, it continues to update your backup set at the time delay you’ve specified. If you chose to make Mirror backups, Safe & Sound updates your backup set at the same time that you
Defining your backup strategy
After you decide which backup type you want to use (either a protected volume file or a directory backup set), the most important questions you must answer when defining your own backup strategy are:
Where will you store the backup set?
In today’s computer marketplace, you may discover that it is as cost effective to acquire a separate backup hard drive where you can keep a current mirror backup copy of one or more other drives that you use on your PC.
In addition, you may want the backup copy to be stored at a remote location, for increased protection. As long as Safe & Sound can access a logical drive mapped on your PC, it can store the backup set there. That is, the backup set can be stored on a shared network drive.
What files are important (which files must be backed up)?
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