Backup software has to meet a few basic standards to be considered good: it has to be easy to use, it has to be quick, and it has to be painless. Backing up your computer is not sexy. It’s not exciting. It doesn’t make you want to drop everything and jump right on that. It [...]

Microsoft has improved the backup experience quite a bit in Windows 7. Backup and Restore, a much improved backup utility, is more than enough for most users to backup their PC to a local storage device. The improved backup software uses shadow copy features of Windows 7 to make iterative backups when necessary. This reduces [...]