How To Manage Backups on Windows 10 Mobile

Richard Hay, Senior Content Producer

July 4, 2016

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How To Manage Backups on Windows 10 Mobile

 

Note: This was a how to I did last December. However, the next major update of Windows 10 is arriving in less than a month, so it is a good time to make sure everyone is backing up their Windows 10 mobile devices before the Windows 10 Anniversary Update arrives.

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There's one key thing when it comes to backups - you never want to realize you need a back up when you actually need a backup.

Luckily, Windows 10 Mobile makes it very easy to backup your photos and text messages to OneDrive -- plus there is a separate backup option for saving the settings for your mobile operating system and installed apps.

Windows 10 Mobile also gives easy access to OneDrive to manage those setting backups. By default, the settings backup option is turned on by default, and if it is well managed the backup takes up very little space on your OneDrive cloud storage account.

This gallery is a quick walk through of the backup and management process for the settings on Windows 10 Mobile.

 

About the Author

Richard Hay

Senior Content Producer, IT Pro Today (Informa Tech)

I served for 29 plus years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer in November 2011. My work background in the Navy was telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well with what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena.

My first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and WindowsObserver.com is the result of the work I have done on that site since 1995.

In January 2010 my community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when I received my first Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the Windows Operating System. Since then I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP each subsequent year since that initial award. I am also a member of the inaugural group of Windows Insider MVPs which began in 2016.

I previously hosted the Observed Tech PODCAST for 10 years and 317 episodes and now host a new podcast called Faith, Tech, and Space. 

I began contributing to Penton Technology websites in January 2015 and in April 2017 I was hired as the Senior Content Producer for Penton Technology which is now Informa Tech. In that role, I contribute to ITPro Today and cover operating systems, enterprise technology, and productivity.

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