Clickfree C2N Home Backup Drive User Guide Basics (HD)
Basics (HD)
HOW DOES CLICKFREE WORK?
All you need to do to keep your projects, photos, videos, music etc. safe is to plug the
Clickfree C2N Home Backup Drive in to your computer and let it work!
No need to install software or to configure anything. Your computer knows when
Clickfree has been plugged in, and it runs the backup program automatically. The first
time the backup program is run, a BackupLink utility is installed in your system tray (in
the bottom right corner of your screen beside the clock).
You can back up as many computers as you like on the same network with the Clickfree
C2N Home Backup Drive. The same thing happens each time you plug it into a new
computer. And each of your backed-up computers is kept separate on your C2N Home
Backup Drive.
When Clickfree has finished backing up each computer (and has installed the
BackupLink), just leave the C2N Home Backup Drive connected to one of the computers
on the network. Each time you want to backup one of the computers on the network,
you would just run the BackupLink utility from the icon on the desktop or system tray,
and it will look for the C2N Home Backup Drive over the network. You can also
schedule a backup automatically (see “Scheduling Automatic Backups” on page 69).
If your data is lost for any reason (hard disk crash, laptop lost or stolen, content
accidentally deleted), you’ll be really happy that you bought and used Clickfree. Your
backed-up content is safe on your Clickfree backup, waiting to be restored when you
have a working computer again.
A Clickfree backup is also ideal for transferring your content from an old computer to a
new one.
Sometimes, for a variety of reasons, the program may not run by itself – it may need a
little help. If this happens to you, don’t worry – it’s easy to get things going. We’ll show
you how a little later. For details, see “What if Clickfree doesn’t start up automatically?”
on page 21.
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