"create a backup" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to make a copy or duplicate of something for safekeeping or to have as a backup in case the original is lost or damaged. Example: Before making any changes to the important document, be sure to create a backup in case something goes wrong.
Make sure you create a backup and verify that it works.
Plug in an external USB drive and use the Time Machine app to create a backup of your Mac.
If I plugged my phone into my computer I would create a backup from the current state of the phone, overwriting anything that I'd previously saved.
Scientists are racing against time to create a backup of Madagascar's famously rich and varied flora in a British seed bank before it is lost forever.
Plus you'll have to create a backup before you replace the hard drive, because the SSD will be blank – so one way or another, you're covered.
The effort to create a backup fund began about three weeks ago, when the Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson, called a meeting in Washington that included the chief executives of Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan and other big banks.
Armored personnel carriers clustered around traffic circles, and the checkpoints were stopping only southbound vehicles, creating a backup.
Other possibilities include Backup > Launch, which simply creates a backup before launching a file, and TrackMyFiles, which provides continuous file monitoring.
You can burn your old files to CD to carry them to the new machine, which has the additional benefit of creating a backup copy.
I have used it and it has worked perfectly for me, but it also creates a backup of the files you change, so you're safe whatever.
WASHINGTON — A shift in authority has given military officials at the White House a bigger operational role in creating a backup government if the nation's capital were "decapitated" by a terrorist attack or other calamity, according to current and former officials involved in the decision.
