Backups have become very important for safeguarding the data. Whether you backup a particular file, a complete folder, a partition or the entire drive, there is no denying that a computer user needs to create and maintain backups. But does every user take backups. The answer to this question as per surveys is 'No'. Though many people have a tendency to forget that they had to create backup, most people avoid the task deliberately. The reason who most people refrain from taking backups is, increased workload, and monotonous nature of the task. Though many data backup software are available in the market, even then people avoid the task. This is due to unfriendliness of the backup software, dullness of the task, time taken to complete the task and the inability to backup large volume of data. Let use see how to handle such a matter.

The biggest concern for the user is unfriendliness of the software. This adds to the amount of work pressure on the user. Also this task cannot be completed while working, so additional time needs to be devoted to the task. Also, since a large amount of data cannot be backed up with most of these applications, the user cannot start the backup process and move anywhere until the whole task is completed. Also the user needs to take the entire backup every time, instead of backing up the updated work. This makes it very difficult.

A good data backup software should be able to resolve these concerns. It should be:

• User-friendly

• Simple to operate

• Allow user to create full, incremental and differential backup.

• Allow the user to Schedule a daily, weekly and /or monthly backup tasks.

• Flexibility to create backup on any digital storage media.

• Some backup software are capable of creating a Secure Zone for saving backup. This zone cannot be attacked by viruses.

• Cloning of the entire hard drive is another feature, extended by some high-end tools.