WinZip Helps : How Do I Restore Data Backups?

by rollingcaker On April 6, 2009 | Utilities | Hits: 20

Software you need: Winzip

You have one or more Zip files that contain data you want to restore to your computer. How do you do that?

The simplest answer is to open the Zip file and click on the Extract toolbar button or click Extract from the Actions menu. This will open the Extract dialog which will allow you to specify certain options and extract the contents of the Zip file into a location that you specify.

However, if you have multiple Zip files created using different job types in the WinZip Job Wizard, then the restore process may be a little more complex. For descriptions of the different Job Types, please see the WinZip Job Wizard help.

Here are some scenarios to illustrate the data restore process:

Scenario 1:

- Create a Normal backup on Monday.

- Create a Normal backup on Tuesday.

- Create a Normal Backup on Wednesday.

- Hard drive crashes on Thursday.

To restore this, do the following:

- Restore the data from the Zip file created on Wednesday; it should contain the latest set of data already.

Scenario 2:

- Create a Full Data Backup on Monday.

- Create an Incremental Data Backup on Tuesday.

- Create an Incremental Data Backup on Wednesday.

- Hard drive crashes on Thursday.

To restore this, restore the backups in the following order to ensure that you have the latest versions of all data files:

- Restore Monday's Full Data Backup.

- Restore Tuesday's Incremental Backup.

- Restore Wednesday's Incremental Backup.

Scenario 3:

- Create a Full Data Backup on Monday.

- Create a Differential Data Backup on Tuesday.

- Create a Differential Data Backup on Wednesday.

- Hard drive crashes on Thursday.

To restore this, restore the backups in the following order to ensure that you have the latest versions of all data files:

- Restore Monday's Full Data Backup.

- Restore Wednesday's Differential Data Backup; it already contains all of the files that have changed since Monday.

As you can see, you may save time with the restore process when using Differential Data Backups in your backup plan. However, it can also use up more space for the backups since you may be saving more files in the differential archives than with the incremental archives. It can also take longer to create the differential archives since they may be archiving more files, depending on how many files have changed since the last full backup and how long before the next full backup; whereas, since the incremental archives only have the files that have changed since the most recent incremental or full data backup, the archives may be smaller and take less time to create.

Tags: Restore Data Backups, Restore WinZip Data

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