Automatic Backup is a backup product by Iomega.

Iomega is producer different data storage products and services. They have been for a long time the leader in the development and manufacturing of Zip drives.

During recent year however this technology have been faced out and as a result they have expanded their product line to such item such as hard drives, high capacity removable storage, online storage and backup software.



Automatic Backup is a backup software offered by Iomega. There is a basic version and a Pro version.

The Pro version includes a backup scheduler. It can do incremental backup and AES based encryption, password protection and the product works for Windows. This something the basic version doesn’t support.

The product in its basic version which also support MAC computer in addition to Windows.
The Pro version only supports Windows PC’s.

Iomega Automatic Backup Pro comes as bundle component backup software if you buy their popular high capacity Removable storage REV which now is replacing the earlier generations of Zip-drives.
REV drive can store 35 GB, 90 GB compressed and there are versions for USB, Firewire, SATA, SCSI interface buses.
This type of product offers an excellent removable backup storage solution for home user, small business and computer users on the move.

The Pro can also be included if you get an Iomega’s external hard drive. They have drives in sizes from 20GB up to 400 GB which you can connect to your USB or Firewire contact. This is a very powerful backup solution and can also serve as a working external hard drive.

The software offer backup automatically as its name implies, eliminating tedious installation as the software is integrated with a less than a minute backup setup.
The Pro version then after the setup will work in the background and perform backup at set intervals without any intervention.

You can schedule the backups to occur automatic according to your own wishes. You can backup according to time, day, time frequencies, or however you wish to do it. This way, you don’t have to be interrupted if you don’t want to be, and you know what times are the most important to save.

If you use it, you can protect yourself from a lot of unexpected problems and downfalls in the future. Iomega backup is very cost efficient for those who need to save a lot of information.

It is a powerful backup solution to make reserve copies of the essential and critical computer data. This is a useful way to save time by avoid work overhead when maintaining backup of the essential and valuable data of the computer such as outlook emails, word documents and costumer databases. It is easy to store and backup using the Iomega’s backup software for Outllok emails as well as for other business critical data, individual and personal data.

Iomega automatic data backup is their main backup software product. They also offer an online backup service to which you can backup your data to an offsite location called IStorage. You can hire storage space from 250 MB up to 5 GB.

However consider the amount of data, cost and the transfer speed for storing data over the Internet at a remote location. Maybe the cost and time involved storing your data with Iomega Backup software and one of Iomega’s storage devices such as their high capacity removable storage REV or one of their hard drives is a better alternative. Of course, if you store data using the IStorage service offsite you can rest ashore that the data is safe in case your computer get stolen or in which building it stored at burn down. Use the IStorage service to gain extra security against disaster.

Note: The Iomega backup software does not support tape, CD or DVD backup.