The backing up of your computer is probably the easiest task we should get around to yet never do. Having both an on-site and offsite backup of your important documents, videos, photos, music and data keeps you from having to rebuild from scratch when your hard drive goes BANG! in the middle of your most important piece of work.
If you are one of those people (like me) who are in need of a very reputable and ultimately reliable backup solution then we have something right up your street!
If you have had the trouble of going through a new Windows installation, you will be familiar with the process of having to gather all your driver CD’s or connecting to hardware support sites to download drivers that enable your hardware to run flawlessly. Personally, I have found notebooks to be the most difficult to find drivers for, mainly because in some cases the drivers aren’t notebook specific, you need to find a generic driver.
Luckily there are programs out there that can assist you in finding out what drivers you currently use and backing them up for future use; Double Driver being one obvious choice.
If you are an IT professional or similar, you will be well versed in ghosting, backing up and restoring data. Many programs in this field tend to be highly overpriced but ultimately lacking in features.
Cobian Backup 8 is a multi-purpose piece of software that allows you to schedule and perform routine backups of important data, transferring data to different drives on your computer or over a network share. In cases where data has a somewhat smaller footprint, FTP transfers of the data are also supported (both downloading and uploading).