Backup to external drives

You can backup your data to external drives using Backup4all. This is a practical backup
destination as it allows you to store important files to different devices, offering increased
portability.

It can be considered as an additional protection against data loss as the result of hardware failure
or other disasters.

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External drive types
Backup to external drives

External drive types

An external hard disk drive is a type of hard disk drive which is connected to a computer by a
USB cable or other means. Modern entries into the market consist of standard SATA, IDE, or
SCSI hard drives in portable disk enclosures with SCSI, USB, IEEE 1394 Firewire, eSATA
client interfaces to connect to the host computer.

Backup to external drives

Steps to follow:

1. Open Backup4all and select File->New Backup (Ctrl+N).

2. On the first page, enter a name for the backup in the Backup Name field.
3. In the Where do you want to save the backup? section, select the External hard drive
as backup destination. Press Next.
4. On the What do you want to backup page, add the backup sources. Press Next.
5. On the third page, you can choose the backup type and the encryption.
6. Press Save and run.

There are external hard drives with performance comparable to conventional hard drives. These
portable drives (called enclosures) are composed of devices that connect through USB / Firewire
/ Sata on one side and to conventional hard drives on the other side. A hard drive is installed into
the enclosure and then the enclosure is plugged into the computer, thus creating a normal backup
device. Given the size of nowadays hard drives, this can be considered a mass storage device for
backup purposes.

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