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# WHITEPAPER

# Windows Backup Best Practices

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## About Whitepaper

Taking regular backups of your data is the most basic backup best practice. However, optimizing backup routines and maximizing your chances of successful data recovery following a disaster requires going further.

In this whitepaper, you'll find:

- Basic Windows backup rules
- Best practices for Windows backups
- And more

This whitepaper focuses on Windows backups in particular, although many of the takeaways apply to any type of environment.

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