Protecting Your WHOLE SYSTEM
The BackupBox makes a complete image backup of your computer's system disk. That means that your physical disk drive (not just your logical units like C: and D:) is copied to another disk so that when your system disk fails or becomes corrupt you can restore it to its earlier state.
Whether you use the BackupBox or do your own disk backups, this is something you need to do weekly or at least monthly. This is partially because you are constantly adding, removing, and updating your PC and its installed programs. Many times this is happening automatically, unbeknownst to you. Other times, like when you click on Microsoft's Automatic Update, you are performing a system-wide update.
Image backups create a restorable copy of all of these changes, including program activation codes and updates regardless of the individual pieces -- they, like the BackupBox, are an all-or-nothing disaster recovery capability.
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Protecting your 'Stuff'
With the BackupBox, you get a complete, automatic imaging capabiltiy. But this does not protect your individual files or versions of those files (other than the ones on the system image at the time the image is refreshed).
It is always prudent to keep backups of individual files on CDs, DVDs, or USB key-like file devices so that -- just in case something goes wrong -- you have your more important documents available on at least one other device.
The BackupBox can also be used as a secondary file-by-file backup device, with the added advantage that is has a very large capacity relative to a CD, DVD, or USB key device.
We, here at Red Paw Systems, pride ourselves in our customer support and our backup expertise. If you have questions or need answers to how to address each or any of these backup alternatives, just drop us a note at help@redpawz.com or Red Paw Customer Support and we will be glad to share what we know. If it is easier, call our support hotline at (970) 372-5002 between 9 AM and 5 PM Mountain Time. |
