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Handy Backup English
Data backup and disaster recovery software for
Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 or 2008/2003 Server
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.
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The simplest edition of the utility that allows backing up files to external drives is called Handy Backup Standard. To perform more advanced type of backup, HDD image backup (also known as drive snapshot) you need to add to it the respective plug-in, or use the Professional edition.
Handy Backup Standard. Buy for $39 
Handy Backup Professional. Buy for $99
Handy Backup Standard + Image Backup plug-in. Buy for $68
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!
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Handy Backup Is a Fantastic Data Backup Tool
Handy Backup is a fantastic tool for all our clients, it does exactly we want it to do and when we want to do it. The support has been outstanding.
Handy Backup is certified for Windows Vista! Handy Backup is suitable for MySQL backup Handy Backup can run in Linux under Wine
My Documents backup - one click backup of the 'My documents' folder including pics, videos, music, text files Website backup - most reliable solution to protect your business's web representation Disk Image Backup - back up your hard drive by creating a hard drive image and saving it to the storage medium MySQL backup - simple, comprehensive backup of the MySQL database tables ODBC Database Backup - back up any ODBC compatible databases including MySQL, Oracle, FoxPro, Interbase, MSSQL, DB2, MS Access, Postgre SQL etc.
Backup to DVD-R - record your backups to DVD-R with our in-built DVD burning tool Backup to CD-R - record your backups to CD-R using data encryption and compression with one click Backup USB - back up your data to any USB connected device such as USB flash key Backup to FTP - transfer your backups to remote FTP server for more data security Backup from FTP - back up data stored on a remote FTP server to your local computer or any removable storage medium
Backup with ZIP compression - backup with 10 levels of Zip compression saves storage space DVD backup verification - makes sure your data are restorable from DVD copy you made Synchronizing files and folders - one click synchronization of files and folders across multiple locations including remote FTP servers
