Recently a friend of mine told me a story about a friend who lost all  his data due to  hard drive problem. It wont be much of a problem if he has a backup in hand. But that is not the story. I can estimate roughly 60% of Malaysia university student never care to do backup for their project, assignment or homework. Let alone the whole  system backup it self.

This particular incident has made me realized that I haven’t installed any backup software on my laptop since it’s last trip to the service center. 

First sofware come to my mind was the simple and free SyncToy from Microsoft. Currently the version is 1.4. You can download it from this site. This utility is very simple, it let you sync between two folder. One folder from your hard drive and another one is you backup folder. It has a very simple interface and can be quickly understood. So why not give it a try and who knows, it might safe you some day.

 [SyncToy, Microsoft]

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