Backup to External Hard Disk Drives

Backing up to external HDD is one of the easiest ways to prevent loss of your PC data. If your backups are made regularly, you can be sure that you'll quickly recover data in case of any disaster – be it a hard drive failure, a user mistake or viral system corruption. Handy Backup is a powerful backup utility for Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista/2008 Server that lets you automate backing up to external drives and all related operations.

There is a huge lot of external storage devices varying in capacity, connection type and transfer standards. Although using for backup external drives connected via high-speed ports is not the cheapest solution, it is widely used for its high speed and reliability.

Options of Backing up to External HDD

The program is very flexible in configuration and administration and allows you to back up data to any type of external storage devices detectable by your system. It exploits standard Windows drivers and meets no problems when attempting to backup to USB (including backup to Flash drives and FireWire backup), eSATA, and other drives. There is a number of options that can be applied to your data before copying it to the chosen destination:

• Backup compression. Handy Backup can automatically compress files before transferring backup to an external HDD. This allows using disk space more effectively and storing more backups on it!


• Backup encryption. Depending on security requirements for your environment, you may want to encrypt your data. Handy Backup can do it all for you!


• Scheduled backup. You can make backups to take place automatically, on any suitable schedule, not requiring any attention at all. Moreover, to ensure that your backups will be always made in time, you can configure backups as Windows service.

How to Backup Data to External Drives

Backing up data with Handy Backup is very easy - the program is famous for its comprehensible and user-friendly interface. If your external hard drive is accessible in your system, then it can be selected either as destination, or as source of data for backup.

Depending on your needs, Handy Backup features multiple backup presets for easy and fast selection of specific data for backup. These include Outlook backup, My Documents backup, Desktop backup, and much more. To learn about data that can be backed up, please refer to the full list of Handy Backup features.

Backup data to external hard drives with Handy Backup – easily, quickly and reliably!