Backup to FireWire / external drives

There is a wide variety of external devices in Handy Backup to which you can record backup data. These devices differ in storage capacity, connection type and data transfer standards. Handy Backup can back up data to the following mass storage devices:

• USB drive Backup
• Backup to FireWire drive
• Backup to eSATA
• Backup to REV
• Removable Hard Disks Backup
• SAN Backup
• DDS Backup
• DAT72 Backup

USB Drive Backup

USB stands for Universal Serial Bus and allows connecting external devices to a PC while making them work without having to reboot the computer thus realizing the true plug and play technology. There are several mass storage devices to which Handy Backup can do USB drive backup including flash cards, flash drives, external hard drives, digital audio players etc.

In Handy Backup, you can do USB drive backup to any type of external device connected via USB. You only need to specify USB as a backup storage medium for the selected backup task, and the program will automatically transfer backup data to the USB device currently connected to your computer. Read more about USB backup with Handy Backup.

Backup to FireWire Drive

FireWire is a serial bus interface standard which offers high speed communication between an external device and a PC. It is a rival standard to USB with many similar features as well as some differences. For example, FireWire provides higher data transfer rates, and unlike USB does not need a PC host.

With Handy Backup you can do the backup to FireWire drives including Maxtor drive backup and Seagate drive backup which both have a FireWire connection capability. Thus you can connect any storage device which supports FireWire. After the device is full, you can disconnect it and connect another storage medium. Thus you can record large amounts of useful information quickly via FireWire.

Backup to eSATA

External SATA provides a still better connectivity and data transfer capabilities than those offered by USB and FireWire for communication of external storage devices with a PC. With Handy Backup, you can select any storage device that you prefer and use any data transfer interface including eSATA. eSATA provides speedy connection with the PC. Thus the backup data will be recorded much faster. Read more about "backup to eSATA".

Backup to REV

REV is a small removable disk based on a hard drive technology with storage capacity close to 70 GB produced by Iomega. REV disks are marketed as an enterprise backup solution aimed to replace traditional tape drive technology.

Handy Backup can do backup to REV disks easily with minimum effort on the user side. You can easily change the REV disks in the drive while doing REV backup and Handy Backup will automatically divide the backup set into equal parts.

Removable Hard Disks Backup

Handy Backup provides easy backup to different types of removable hard disks such as Jaz drives and Zip drives which used to be manufactured by Iomega.

Despite the fact that the production of these hard disks was discontinued, we continue to offer the backup to Jaz and Zip feature in Handy Backup providing still wider choice of backup storage media.

SAN Backup

SAN is a storage area network which allows attaching remote computer storage devices to a server in such a way that the operating system of the server sees them as locally attached devices. SANs are relatively expensive and are mostly used in an enterprise data center environment.

Using the SAN backup feature, you can store your backup set on the network and share it with other users. Moreover, saving data on the network provides still better security of the backup data as they will be stored in a remote location. Thus, if your local hardware crashes, your data will still be safe and accessible at any time.

DDS Backup

DDS is a digital data storage format developed by Sony and Hewlett Packard. DDS uses 3.8 millimeter wide tape to store backup data. Each tape has a limit of 100 backups and has a life expectancy of 10 years.

You can use Handy Backup to back up any types of data such as video, audio and texts as well as data from different programs and applications to DDS. While doing backup to DDS you can assign a flexible backup plan which includes the DDS rotation scheme, type of backup such as full backup, incremental backup or mirror backup, and a backup schedule in which you can customize the time period over which the backup will repeat.

DAT72 Backup

DAT72 is a generation of DDS and stores up to 36 GB uncompressed (72 GB compressed) on a 170 meter cartridge. The DAT 72 standard was developed by HP and Certance. While backing up data to DAT72 with Handy Backup you can apply several useful options such as file filtering, data encryption and compression which allows recording substantially larger amounts of data on a single disk.

Enjoy a really wide choice of backup storage media with Handy Backup! See a complete list of Handy Backup features!