You may take a sigh of relief because it means that you do not have to purchase a special backup application to backup your important data. Though, you should come to know that these software provides you a number of significant advantages above those that Windows XP backup tool offers.
The Windows XP backup toll allows backing up all the user files in just one click. If you choose the option of My Documents backup, this tool will copy all the contents of the Documents and Settings folder along with MS Outlook/Outlook Express messages and settings.
However, in most of the cases full backup of the data is not required. In all possibility the My Documents folder will be big in size and has a lot of unrelated information. If this situation comes, Windows XP backup tool recommend that you can specify the files and folder manually that you want to include in backup.
Windows XP backup tool offers 5 types of backup copy, normal, differential, daily and incremental. It allows backing up the system state data which includes Boot Files, Registry, and COM+ Class Registration Database. But you can not include or exclude the specific system components.
The major drawback of the Windows XP backup toll is that you can save files only on the floppy drive or on a network drive. Now think that how many floppy disks it will need to back up your entire critical data if it is in GB.
The effectiveness of any of the data backup system is depends upon your need. In most of the cases, Windows XP backup tool is effective data backup system. If you are a general home user and you do not have a large database then you can take a backup with this tool. But if you are a professional user and you have a large database of your company, then you need to use standard data backup software.
Standard backup software has many advantages over the Widows XP backup tool. Some of them are:
• File filter that allows you to select the files with a special file format
• You can take a backup on different removable storage media CD, DVD, USB and Blue Ray disks.
• You can take complete system backup in the form of system image
• Target backup facility for special applications
Due to these major advantages and for decreasing the possibilities of data loss, you are suggested to use standard data recovery software. This kind of backup is also provides ease to recover if any kind of data loss occurs.
There is a wide range of data backup software are available in the market. Among these software, Stellar Insta backup software is the wonderful data backup software. This is very useful software for professional as well as general home users. You can also use this software in networking environment. This software provides different scheduling options like daily, weekly, monthly and yearly.
