How Do I Safely Back Up an Infected Drive?

Описание: ⚜️ Once your hard drive is infected, a full back up is likely to include the infection as well. I'll look at what steps to take when that happens.

3 options to back up an infected drive
Back up the entire drive, knowing it’s infected. You’ll be able to restore anything you need, later.
Back up the entire drive and restore to a second drive — or just move the infected drive to be a second drive. Scan the second drive for malware, and restore files as needed.
Back up only data from the drive. The risk is missing something important.

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Chapters
0:00 Backing up without the virus
0:20 The question
0:40 Backup “Just your data”?
0:55 Three alternatives
1:12 One - Backup everything – restore carefully
2:56 Restore to different drive and scan
4:04 Backup only data (not recommended)
5:23 Next steps
5:47 Restoring to previous backup is best

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