Data Backup Software and Service

As the internet becomes more and more convenient, international trade among different countries becomes more and more popular. However, such kind of business mostly depends on the internet to communicate and computers to store vital information. Just imagine that, one day, your business contracts, emails, client database as well as some other important information were lost. Are you sure you can restore them and be back in business soon? Consequently, it is too late to regret that you did not have a back-up in advance.

However, we can not always avoid data loss. Sometimes, we delete some specific files by accident or failure; sometimes we lose data because of a hard disk failure as well as virus infection; sometimes our computer even will be stole by others.
Usually, we do simple backup such as file copy like copy and paste. This is fine as long as there are no problems with the file system on the original disk. But as soon as the copy in progress finds a file which can't be copied (for whatever reason, file system corruption say) the copy process stops. Leaving you with the time consuming and rather mundane task of trying to workout where and why the file copy stopped and what files remain to be copied.

Maybe Windows Backup utility’s features and functions are not comparable with the third party software, even a freeware - EASEUS Disk Copy, but indeed its compatibility is unparalleled. The Windows Backup utility helps you create a copy of the information on your hard disk. In the event that the original data on your hard disk is accidentally erased or overwritten, or becomes inaccessible because of a hard disk malfunction, you can use the copy to restore your lost or damaged data. The Windows Backup utility helps you protect data from accidental loss.

The hard disk and partition imaging software take a snapshot of your hard disk so that you can restore your system at a later time to the exact same state the system was when you imaged the disk or partition. This is useful for system recovery in case of a hard disk disaster. The term "image" is used because such software often copy the state of the hard disk sector by sector to your image. Hence if your hard disk was (say) defragmented with certain software occupying certain sectors when you backed up, it will be returned to that same state when you restore your backup. The image utilities often do not allow fine control what you backup - you can specify the partitions or hard disks to back up, but you usually will not be able to specify which folders to exclude or include. They are useful for backing up your system drive or partition, that is, the drive that you placed your operating system on. Hard disk imaging software are sometimes also used to clone a hard disk to another (useful for the times you change or upgrade your hard disk).

On the other hand, the hard disk, folder and files backup software listed here allow a finer control over what you back up. You can selectively backup and restore (say) your documents and email while omitting other files and directories. Some of the utilities allow you to schedule your backups, so that you can be sure that your important data are backed up periodically (for example, daily, weekly, monthly, etc). Depending on the utility, it may or may not support the backup of your system drive (the drive you booted from).