Digital Home Thoughts: They Say That Backing Up Is Hard To Do

"The team behind Redo Backup can't argue that their tool is the most comprehensive on the market, but they can argue that it's the easiest to use. Boot up with a Live CD or Live USB copy of Redo Backup and you're only a few clicks away from backing up your system—or restoring it if your hard drive went to the great data center in the sky."

Backing up should be a mandatory part of your computing regimen and there are a wide range of options available to do so. However, as easy as Redo sounds, I do have to question one major part of how it works: Using a Live CD or USB drive. Backups should be easy to do, and while a Live CD with a simple wizard sounds like a great idea, it means that a person has to either pop in a CD, or plug in a Flash drive and restart their computer. I know of very few people willing to go through that kind of a break in their routine in order to do backups. If they can provide a way for the backups to be done in the background while a person is still working away, and use the Live CD or USB drive for restoration purposes, they might just get a few more customers.