Western Digital External Hard Drive Backup

Western Digital external hard drive backup is a thing that is meant to be.

First, WD is among the world’s most popular external storage device brands. So, some of those backups to external hard drives inevitably land on the disks by Western Digital (as statistics and common sense teach).

Second, a significant number of WD hard drives get to users with the SmartWare backup software pre-installed. Thus, even if previously you have been thoroughly trying to ignore the shouting necessity of backup (please say you haven’t), there is a reminder to reconsider your data protection priorities.

So, if you are an owner of a WD hard drive or you think it’s possible one day you’ll become one (have you already heard that they have five colors for those external bad boys?), please meet Handy Backup as probably the best software to help you with backup to external hard drives by Western Digital.

SmartWare is OK. But if you want something more than a program that you get as a bundle to some other product and cherish you right to choose yourself what software to use (instead of dealing with pre-installed utilities), Handy Backup is happy to help.

Why Handy Backup, you may ask. Well, a righteous question. Here are the arguments:

• Classic auto backup tasks: Desktop backup, My Documents backup, My Videos backup, and a bunch of other most popular backup options; from now on these are one-click actions. Handy Backup respects your time.
• Handy file filtering and search system: whether you a fan of using masks for specifying what you want to copy or have no idea what those might be, there is a handy option to easily match the data to back up to an external hard drive.
• Plug-ins for careful backup of different types of data: Outlook backup, Skype backup, and even Photoshop backup, treated properly with all the settings and attributes. Think those are figs? What about MySQL backup and ODBC-compatible database backup then? At your service!
• Image backup: a complete snapshot of your local or WD hard drive, with the boot records, Windows registry, applications, operating system (Windows or Linux), and other important things. Back up the whole thing or individual disk partitions. And yes, that’s the surest way to re-install the whole system to clone it to other machines or after a disaster.
• Sync and mirror backup: the magic of having a file automatically copied to the backup storage and several identical files in a local, external hard drive, and network storages automatically updated to the most actual version. The priorities which one of those identical files is the most actual (the newest one, the biggest one, etc.) are all manageable.
• Backup scheduling: granting the software an honor to accomplish your backup tasks instead of you, once you configured the time or system event schedule. Like we said before, Handy Backup respects your time.
• Encryption and compression: backup requiring too much disk space and freely accessible for unauthorized users are no more an option. Handy Backup protects your data and stores the backups the smart way.

Tip: Despite the common opinion that there is no way to fully uninstall SmartWare, there are several options to free you from this utility. Here is what we believe the easiest way (plus, it supposes you can bring the program back if you wish):

In your Windows operating system open the following folder:

Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager

In the list that you can find there, click the plus sign next to DVD/CD-ROM Drives. There you will be able to see the DVD/CD players you have, plus an extra one, WD Virtual CD 1110 USB Device. Right click, disable, confirm, and you’re done.

Download Handy Backup right away and happy Western Digital external hard drive backups!

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