Relying on cloud backup to protect documents and data is not a good option because it’s not safe. It’s fraught with risks for situation where a disaster such as a malware attack or a hard drive crash strikes and brings a system down for days on end. And when your system is down, it might take a lot of money (from hundreds to thousands of dollars) to recover it and get back to the productive ways.
In fact, there is a tendency among many home users to discard their PC and purchase a new one after being troubled by the downed system. In addition, we should also note that hundreds of thousands of drive crash almost every day, including the SSDs that are often considered fail-safe by many. You may also witness an external SSD crash just days after purchasing it. The worse part, an SSD crash does not give any warning ever (Windows 10 Restore From Backup).
How about a full-system backup?
If you have not thought about a full-system backup yet, it’s time to give it a thought as it’s considered by experts the best way to save your PC against threats such as malware, virus, hardware failure and ransomware. But you should also know that a full-system backup is not available in the cloud. You however can trust one of many backup solutions that do an image backup of the PC. With these backups, you can be sure to fully recover from a disaster, even if they take hours to do their task.
Similarly, it’s also important to create special recovery media either on a flash drive or other external media. With that, you can boot special recovery environment even in case the PC breaks down. You also need to make sure to have access to this media when a threat attacks the system. When a system crashes and can’t be rebooted, it’s always difficult to make a clear recovery in such cases. And yes, not all PCs will boot from a flash drive in case the internal drive is yet not totally crashed or has gone out of use.
When all these situations arise, the only option left with users is a BIOS change which is never easy to manage. The restore process however may take a few hours only in cases where one is aware about the ways to get up and running in the recovery environment. Even though backups tend to fail, you need to understand that most backup solutions are dependable in nature and deliver good results with backing up systems. But yes, not all backups will restore properly in every situation.
Rescue Drive – The ultimate backup solution
Rescue drive is the only backup option or solution that can let you recover quickly from a threat or disaster. In fact, it allows recovery even without the need of any recovery media. No other backup solution is capable of letting you check if the backup can recover your system instantly after the initial backup is made. So with rescue drive, you will always be sure about the backup having been successful in all aspects of the way.
More so, rescue drive is much more than just a quick recovery as it can also help you backup to a local drive connect to a USB port. This is particularly very helpful from security point of view when we compare this arrangement to cloud backup. After all, your data won’t be exposed to a public cloud when you have done a local backup to an external drive (Backup to External Drive Windows10).
Access your data anywhere
Thanks to rescue drive, it’s possible to access data even while travelling, or you can access it from any other PC without an external drive in tow. There are services that let you share documents in the cloud and also help you access the data on either mobile devices or any other device. But this solution may be good for normal and utility documents and files but you would definitely not trust it for sensitive data. You can include such data in a remote backup neither can you keep them in a public cloud. Unlike the cloud which may compromise on privacy and security, a rescue drive is always safe for every type of situation and data.
You won’t need extra hardware
With rescue drive, you will need to buy an external USB drive to do a full-system backup. You should not mind spending money on these drives for two reasons – first, they are cheap and second, they cost a lot less than most cloud backup subscriptions. Plus, you can always expect the rescue drive to be compatible with flash drives, external SSD drives and SD cards of large capacity. All this clearly shows the utility of a rescue drive which can get your system up and running in quick time and keep your productive for all times.
