How to BackUp Your Digital Life
Backup software and services copy the contents of your hard drive-those photos, videos, songs, and documents you can't afford to lose-to another drive. If your drive dies, you have duplicate copies of some or all of your files.
But not all backup software is the same. Some copy only the files and folders that you specify. Others products make an exact copy, or image, of your hard drive on a backup disk or removal media. Both methods have their pros and cons. The selected backup is best if you only want to backup or archive your data files, but you will make sure you have installation discs for your operating system and your applications. The drive image backup option is better if you want to copy everything on your computer, even your operating system. This makes it easier to restore your computer to the way it was before your hard drive died.
You also have the choice of backing up to a local hard drive or removal media drive or to backup at a secure data center over the Internet. Again their are advantage to both with local backup being fast and convient while online backup stores your data in secure online encrypted datacenters throughout the world. Some of the software application will allow you to backup locally or to secure online datacenters.
Online Backup
Carbonite Online Backup
Your computer is filled with irreplaceable files: emails, photos, music, business contacts and financials. Carbonite automatically and securely backs up the irreplaceable contents of your computer. Carbonite takes data privacy and security very seriously. We encrypt your files twice before backing them up securely offsite, using the same encryption techniques that banks use. Files remain encrypted at our secure data centers, so only you can see them. When your computer is idle, Carbonite automatically backs up new and changed files. You don't have to do anything! When you're using your computer, Carbonite goes to sleep so it will never slow down your computer or internet connection.
Mozy Online Backup
Mozy was made to back up your most important files (email, contacts, photos, financials, etc.), but not your system and application files, which are easy to restore via your original CDs. Mozy is a simple, smart, and economic way to protect your data. You simply install it on your computer, set it up, and then never worry about data loss again. For a typical system on a typical broadband line, Mozy backs up data at about 2-4 GB per day. But if left undisturbed on a fast connection, you can back up over 9 GB in a single day. Mozy does what are called differential backups, which means that it only backs up portions of your files that have changed since the last time they were backed up. This saves lots of time, bandwidth, and storage space. After your initial backup, subsequent backups are relatively quick, and chances are that you won't even notice them.
Backup Software
Acronis True Image Home 2010
Acronis True Image Home 2010 backs up individual files or an entire computer image to a separate external drive or disc, providing complete protection from viruses, trojans and hardware failures that can cause the catastrophic loss of irreplaceable files and software. In the event of a computer failure, users can quickly and easily restore their data or images to the system to get up and running in minutes. Acronis True Image includes our patented disk imaging backup technology. You can copy your entire PC, including the operating system, applications, user settings, and all data. In the event of a system or disk crash, virus attack or other fatal failures you can restore the entire disk contents in minutes - no reinstallations required!
East-Tec Backup 2009
East-Tec Backup 2009 backs up and protects the files and data you care about. East-Tec Backup 2009 is very easy to use and features intuitive wizards, automatic backups, data compression, strong military AES encryption and FTP support. Back up all important information on your computer - documents, digital photos, family videos, key financial records, emails, address book, computer and program settings, and other data - in one easy step. East-Tec Backup 2009 backs up to almost any media, including CDR/RW and DVD+-R/RW drives, USB and FireWire (IEEE 1394) external storage devices, internal or external hard disks, Iomega Zip and Jaz drives, local area network locations, and remote FTP locations (upload auto-resuming supported).
Genie Backup Manager Professional 8.0
Genie Backup Manager Professional 8.0 is a total system and data protection solution. GBM Pro 8.0 is a reliable and robust backup and data recovery solution yet combines ease-of-use and user-interface consistency - containing everything under one roof. Genie Backup Manager Pro 8.0 is ideal for the computer user who requires additional features not present in Genie Backup Manager Home 8.0. Genie Backup Manager Pro 8.0 has the power, flexibility and is feature rich to suit single system users to multiple systems within small businesses over LANs and for use in SAN, and NAS backups, resource sharing scenarios and backing up to removable media devices such as USB, REV disks, floppy diskette, all types of optical media remote location using FTP, and tape drive media and online backups using Ajax-based backup technology to Genie Online Backup storage servers. Genie Backup Manager Pro offers better data management and greater data availability than ever before.
Norton Ghost 14.0
Norton Ghost 14.0 backs up and restores a user's entire PC computer system, including all of its data - applications, settings, folders and files - and offers exclusive remote backup management, industry-leading encryption and advanced compression features to ensure everything on the PC system is protected. Using Norton Ghost 14.0, users can quickly recover lost or damaged files and restore from system failures, even if their computer's operating system does not start.
Backup4all Professional
Backup4all is an award-winning data backup software for Windows. This backup utility was designed to protect your valuable data from partial or total loss by automating backup tasks, password protecting and compressing it to save storage space. This backup application is feature rich and offers an intuitive interface making all features easily accessible for both beginners and professionals. Our backup utility performs all four backup types: full backup, differential backup, incremental backup and mirror backup. Using the wizard you can easily set up any backup configurations you wish. You can define powerful file filters and schedule your backups any way you want.