What is the Quality of backup software?
194749
How do you measure quality? Does it work as advertised? It does. Has it ever failed? Not yet? Have I taken it apart to evaluate its workmanship? No. But experience shows me that Toshiba can be trusted.
194750
Quality is very bad. DO NOT BUY THIS DEVISE! Its only works for 1 month. After that I bought SAMSUNG 3TB. Works great!
1662396
How you perform a backup isn't unique to this drive. It does not come with any software. You'll have to check your operating system's instructions. I'm guessing you are using Windows. If you are using the Apple OS, Time Machine takes care of all the work.
1395775
All depends on your setting. If you set it to do continuous backup, t will back up everytime there is a change. You can set thethe programm to back up every time you shut down the computer or once a day at a specific time.
2066522
There was software included, presumably a backup program. I formatted the disk and use time machine to do my backups.
1820892
If it is a first time back up it takes time. Mine took two days for 1TB. All future backups only captured the changed (new) files. I use COX. If you are on DSL you have a problem (century link) Good luck
794798
Hi, yes it is a very reliable backup drive, I would get a backup program like novastor which is very good and back up your whole computer. Take care any question just ask me
847134
It was but since then I've lost all my pictures that I took for over two years. I would highly recommend the western digital external hard drive. I've used them for over ten years and no problems at all. I just bought another one two days ago "the WD passport w. Auto cloud backup. It's about the same price plus they give you cloud back up. Can't. Beat this company that been around for 30 years.
1442644
I find these more than suitable for backup of data for sure. In all honesty though, thumb drives have come down in price so much that I generally buy thumb drives for that purpose. I usually put the backup software as well on the thumb drive so its a one stop run. Hope that helps.
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The most reliable way software is probably TrueCrypt. It is for free and also open source which is a security plus. Their site has instructions on how to use it for a usb drive.
893937
Depends on what youre trying to store. Typically, for normal/average use, then it should be fine for quite some time. A full computer backup, without any files, is about 13GB of space.I purchased the 2TB...the bigger the better. But, I store a lot of movies, TV shows, and music.
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I think they are bad, at least the ones you mentioned. Currently I am using for Backup, Novabackup by Novastor V13.1 and it works and restores perfectly and it's available for about $25 dls for an upgrade.
385030
I use it 2x per week to clone backup my notebook. No more backup software for me. I agree with R. West, but Apricorn's support site is great and they respond to emails that I have submitted, so you might ask there.
565448
The software is on a disc. I don't know about any "backup program" This is an Anti Virus program.
2231217
i only pick certain useful files to back up on this drive; i don't trust the auto-backup thing, fearing the software can stop working at anytime and all backed up files CAN'T be recovered; besides, backing up everything on my PC is such a waste, which really has a lot junk....
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Frankly I have found NO external drive either desktop or portable that have been particularly easy to work with and customer service of all (WD, Seagate, or Toshiba) either don't reply period or if they do it's gooble-de-gook. Seems as though that the hardware is perfectly capable of storing data but retrieving it is another question. The software is totally, absurdly complex. (Ditto thumb drives with password protected sectors. Impossible!) IT folks decry the fact that no one bothers to back up anything. Guess why?
956887
It's been a while since I started using it, but I think I just plugged it in, and it was automatic, as I recall. I know for sure that it was easy, and hasn't required any time to keep the backups going. I think it asks you about the desired frequency of backing up, and also whether incremental or total.
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The very first backup takes a long time, maybe an hour. For subsequent back-ups, it records whatever has changed, and the back-up takes only 55-10 minutes.