--- title: An ounce of prevention... | Advanced Office description: A descriptive guide on how to back up your copier's address book image: https://www.goadvanced.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/jeshoots-com--2vD8lIhdnw-unsplash_0.jpg --- [![logo-scroll](https://www.goadvanced.com/hubfs/logo-scroll.svg "logo-scroll")](http://19965136.hs-sites.com/) [![logo-scroll](https://www.goadvanced.com/hubfs/logo-scroll.svg "logo-scroll")](http://19965136.hs-sites.com/) # An ounce of prevention... January 20, 2020 | [Advanced Office](https://www.goadvanced.com/blog/author/advanced-office) Hello everyone! Today I am going to discuss a very helpful tool on your Ricoh copier, which is the **Address Book**. This is the feature you use when scanning to your e-mail, a folder, or even use for User Codes to control copying and printing. With the advancement of all electronic equipment, copiers too, have advanced. They not only have many moving parts, they also have computer boards in them to make the magic work.  The one thing they also have, and you probably didn’t even know this, is a hard drive just like the one in your work computer. The hard drive is what actually holds the information for the copier’s Address Book. Now we all know that even though hard drives are good, they can fail eventually. And when they do, they can cause a bit of a disturbance to your workflow. Your copier is no different. If the hard drive in your copier fails, you can lose all the entries in the Address Book! How do you get them back, you ask? You have to program them back into the copier’s Address Book after your tech replaces the drive. If you are a small office, then maybe that’s not a big problem. But what if you have over a hundred entries…  Indeed, that would be no fun to re-enter everything! What if I were to tell you there is a way to avoid this pain. What would you think if I were to tell you that if the drive *did* crash, that you could recover all those entries within a few moments?  Are *you* interested now…?  If so, then keep reading and I’ll tell you the secret. If you log into the copier’s Web Interface and go to the page where you make changes to the Address Book, you will see a link that is called **Maintenance**. Click it! You will be taken to a screen where you can either, a: **Backup** the Address Book. Or, b: **Restore** the Address Book. Click on **Backup**, and then choose where you would like to save the file. I recommend saving it to a clearly named folder in a very easy to find place… like the desktop of your computer. Now, if your hard drive fails and the Address Book is “wiped out”, all you have to do is log into the copier’s Web Interface, go to **Maintenance** in the Address Book section and choose **“Restore”**. Locate your backup file and viola! 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