Backup Hardware Storage | Backup Hardware and Software

When thinking about the backup strategy, one of the dominant aspects is choosing the storage. In fact, considering a vast variety of different storages for backups, you basically have to choose between backup hardware and online backup storages.

Hardware backup storages are very popular among people who don’t want to bother about online backup. E.g. backing up to USB external drives is one of the most preferable ways to safeguard critical data. Actually, there are even special USB backup hardware solutions you just press one button and all your HDD contents are copied to a USB drive. The main drawback of these devices is that they don’t provide flexible options for backup, like software solutions do.

Handy Backup is an easy-to-use backup software with a flexible configuration and the richest set of backup options. It supports both online backup and backup hardware locations:

• Online backup. Read more about our Novosoft Remote Backup Service.
• LAN, NAS backup. You can choose to back up your data over your network, using any network drive accessible through your operating system.
• CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-Ray disks. Being the most available backup hardware storages, optical disks are still rather fragile and are not suitable to store critical business information.
• Local, external HDD. FireWire, USB devices are among the most popular hardware backup solutions for their reliability and large capacity.

Generally, Handy Backup supports all backup hardware locations recognizable by Windows operating system. Read more about backup features of our software...