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You can backup your data to a USB drive or from a USB drive using Backup4all. This is a practical bac
store important files to external devices, offering increased portability. It can be considered as an add L AT E S T A R T I C L E S
as the result of hardware failure or other disasters.
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P O P U L A R P LU G I N S
There are external USB hard drives with performance comparable to conventional hard drives. These
are composed of devices that connect through USB on one side and to conventional hard drives on th
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A hard drive is installed into the enclosure and then the enclosure is plugged into the computer, thus c
device. Given the size of nowadays hard drives, this can be considered a mass storage device for bac Google Chrome

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Some external hard drives use also FireWire as a connection port. On one side FireWire hard drives te
USB, but on the other side USB ports are more common on computers. Mozilla FireFox Profiles

VLC Media Player

The first step in backing up to USB with Backup4all is starting the device. Usually the enclosure shoul
the status of the drive using led displays. When it is started a green led should be lighted.

L AT E S T P LU G I N S
Next, you have to make sure the drive is formatted. If you have just purchased the drive and didn't use
(only if you didn't use it before, since formatting will erase everything from it). Here's a quick guide to d
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Go to Start -> Control panel -> Administrative tools -> Computer Management. PowerArchiver

Under Computer Management click Disk Management then check the right-bottom window (scr LimeWire
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You should see the additional hard drive disk; right-click on it, choose New partition, then follow IconPackager
hard drive.
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Test to see if the drive is now recognized by going to File Explorer (a new drive letter should app

If your USB drive is working correctly, you can set it as a backup destination for an existing backup job
one.

1. For an existing backup job:

Select the backup job you want to run, press CTRL+P in order to open the Backup Properti

Go to the Destination and click on the Removable icon.

Select a drive from the Removable drive drop-down list (your drive should show up in there

Click Save to close the Properties window. Now you can run that backup job to store your
USB backup

2. For a new backup job:

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

In the Where do you want to save the backup? section, select the USB drive as backup des

On the What do you want to backup page, add the backup sources. Press Next.

On the Filter the backup sources page, you can set include/exclude filters for backup sour

On the How do you want to backup page, you can choose the backup type and the encrypt

On the When do you want to backup page, you can set the backup job to automatically run
Press Next.

On the Personalize your backup job page, enter a name for the backup in the Backup nam

Press Save and run.

Backup to USB flash drives

An USB flash drive is a small, lightweight, removable data storage device (also known as "pen drive", "t
key" or "memory stick").

In comparison with other removable storage solutions (CD/DVD drive or Blu-ray discs), flash drives are
scratches or dust and even impacts, and plus they offer a lot of storage space. This makes them idea
work files from one location to another, or for backing up important personal data.

Like all flash memory devices, flash drives can sustain only a limited number of write/erase cycles be
range flash drives currently on the market will support several million cycles, although write operation
ages. This should be a consideration when using a flash drive for backup purposes.

Backup4all can be used for USB backup to a flash drive. Launch Backup4all and either define a new b
flash drive, or change the destination for an existing backup job.

File compression with encryption protection is recommended to be sure that the files are only access
of losing the flash drive the data will not be compromised. Backing up to an USB flash drive is very co
portability.

The digital audio players (MP3 players) are essentially flash drives with sound output, thus you can ba
mp3 player using the mirror backup type and be able to listen to them in the same time. So if you have
for ipod backups, meaning backing up the multimedia files that you have on your iPod to your local ha

USB 3.1/3.2 compatibility

Backup4all also supports and works fine with USB 3.1/3.2 devices. The advantage to back up to an US
transmission speed which is up to 20 Gbit/s, 40 times faster than USB2.0 (480 Mbit/s). USB 3.1/3.2 s
required for data transmission, reduces power consumption, and is backwards compatible with USB 2

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