PC BackUp using Clickfree
 

Any comments and/or experience, technical and non-technical, on the products offered by Click Free,

http://www.goclickfree.com/

A new product introduced in January 2009 :

" USB cable that turns ordinary hard drives into truly automatic Clickfree back-up solutions "

http://www.goclickfree.com/releases/...20FINAL_US.pdf

From the Clickfree web site:

"No software to install or setup. Works right out-of-the-box. Just plug the Clickfree™ Transformer into the computer, then plug any external USB hard drive into the other end of the Transformer and it converts the external hard drive into a Clickfree™ backup drive. Automatically starts, finds, organizes and backs up all of your data onto the external hard drive.

Backup multiple computers with one Clickfree™ Transformer!

Features

The Clickfree™ Transformer can automatically back up more than 400 different file types, including:
Photos
Music
Video
Word, Excel, PowerPoint files
Financial data files
E-mail and E-mail attachments
Favourite websites
The Clickfree™ Transformer offers incremental backup; upon first connection it will automatically find all of the user data files and copy them to the hard drive. Each time after that, it will only back up the new files or the ones that have changed.

While the software's default settings will probably be sufficient for most users, it is user-modifiable, providing full control over the backup settings. Even after the settings have been changed, the backup will still run without any user interaction.

Backs up data from multiple computers. Easily restore your lost files back to your computer. Transfer your files to a new computer. Share photos, music and videos with friends! "

If you keep all your data in standard locations, it might simplify your life. Otherwise, you'll have to configure it. If your external drive is big enough, you might consider Norton Ghost or a similar product to completely mirror your drive(s) so that, in the event of a major failure, you can restore your entire system to a new disk.

I have (2) 320 gig hard drives in my computer and Santa brought me a maxtor 750 Gig external hard drive to back up my complete system on. Works great (so far).

Terry