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CD
Backup Made Easy
Today,
CD Writers are very common and CDRs and CDRWs are cheaper than
ever. While most people use their CD Writers to create music CDs
or to copy files, CD-R and CD-RWs can also be to store backups
in an easy way. A normal CD can store 650MBs of data. This
number can often be doubled to 1.3GB using an efficient
compression algorithm. Since most backups are often smaller than
1.3GBs this makes CDRs or CDRWs a perfect solution for storing
backups.
Compression
In order to use the CD media more efficiently you will probably
want to compress your backup before writing it to the CD.
Compression can often reduce the size of a backup by 50% or
more, doubling the capacity of your CDs. If you have ever tried
to compress a 1GB file you probably know that this will take a
lot of time. Since WinBackup compresses files on-the-fly, backup
operations will be performed considerably faster. The built-in
compression also reduces the need for a large temporary storage
location and makes it much easier to run large backups to CD-R
or CD-RW discs.
Encryption
When storing backups on CDs, security can easily become a
problem. Since CDs can easily get lost or even stolen, you will
need to protect your backups from unauthorized access by using
some kind of password protection or encryption. Backups often
contains emails, important documents and other sensitive
information, and in fact, if you backup your entire harddrive,
your backup could even contain passwords to computers and
websites. WinBackup allows you to password protect and encrypt
your backups with 128 or 256 bit AES encryption, making it
virtually impossible for anyone else to access your files. Since
encryption can be performed automatically on all backups you do
not need to worry about security every time to save a backup to
CD.
Integrated
CD Writing
Even though many pc owners have a CD writer installed in their
computer, surprisingly few use it to backup important data. One
reason for this could be that many users feel that writing
backups to CDs is a little too complicated. WinBackups
integrated CD/DVD writing features makes it easier than ever
before to write backups directly to CDs or DVDs without knowing
anything about CD Writing. Storing your backup on a CD or CDRW
is as simple as inserting an empty CD-R or CD-RW into your CD
Writer and clicking on "Run Backup". You can even
leave a CDRW in the CD writer and schedule WinBackup to
automatically update the contents daily. If the CD Writer is
located on some other computer on the network you could schedule
WinBackup to backup to that computer first and then to write the
backup to a CD. WinBackup also makes it easy to backup emails,
documents or internet favorites with built-in shortcuts to
important user data.
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