Backup to USB drives

Ability to backup to USB plays a very important role in data backup software. USB devices have large capacity (especially if you backup to USB hard drive), are transportable and very reliable. Used in a Plug-and-Play environment, they can be safely connected and disconnected from the computer without rebooting, thus being perfect media for regular backups.

Some HDD vendors even produce hardware USB backup solutions which allow you to press a button and have your hard drive image backup automatically copied to a USB hard drive. However, devices like these don't provide flexibility in configuration and in most aspects lose to software backup solutions, such as Handy Backup.

Why backup to USB with Handy Backup

Handy Backup minimizes efforts needed to backup data to USB through automatic performance of all related tasks – including determination of changed data, its compression, encryption, etc. You need to specify data set and backup options only once, and the program will take care of the rest, accurately and imperceptibly backing up your files to USB. Learn about Flash backup options...

Features of backing up to USB

After you connect a storage medium via USB, be it a hard drive, a flash USB key, or any other device, you may immediately start using Handy Backup to back up data to it. The program supports all types of USB devices (recognized by Windows Explorer) and has many powerful features:

• Complete backup automation. Flexible task scheduler allows you to automate all backup processes and make them run without supervision.


• Versatile scheduling schemes. Different types of data require different schedules: Handy Backup can be configured to perform backup to USB on whatever time frame, from minute to monthly intervals. For instance, you can set it to backup Outlook email each evening, and backup Windows registry twice a week.


• Backup to USB as Windows service. The utility can run as system service under Windows Vista/XP/2003 Server/2000. This feature allows launching backup tasks without having any user logged into the system. Read more about backup as Windows service…


• Notifications via e-mail. Notifications allow you to forget about the program and control results of its operations through e-mail.

To learn more about Handy Backup functionality, please refer to the full list of Handy Backup features.

Backup to USB is made easy with Handy Backup software!