Thumb drives are easy to lose or otherwise just disappear – perhaps through a visit to the washing machine in your designer jeans? Consequently, you’ll often find yourself with multiple thumb drives containing much the same data. You’d never want to store a single copy of a working document on one device for example. As such, now you’re left with a file management nightmare and through experience – a complicated setup often leads to compromises, and compromises transitions nicely into disasters.
USBFlashCopy is a free for personal use Windows utility that will backup your USB devices automatically, as they are connected to the PC, on the fly and in the background. By using USBFlashCopy no longer do you have to worry about maintaining current copies of the contents on each USB thumb drive.
USBFlashCopy requires minimal user configuration. Generally on first execution you will want to look at the Media Drives section. Here you can set a few options on how the software handles drive letters of devices as they appear on your PC. For example, you can tell the software to always ignore a particular drive letter or always backup another letter. The default setting of auto was intelligent enough to accomplish the desired effect in testing – but it’s good to know that a bit more fine tuning is possible if necessary.
Lastly, under the Profiles header contains additional options as it relates to the backup process. Things such as copy speed or even backup destination directory are all worth configuring further. Further, it’s possible to ignore particular files or file types. Profiles are uniquely identified and applied by referencing the serial number of the attached USB device. Therefor different profiles can be applied to different devices.
If you a power user as it relates to thumb drives and file management you really owe it to yourself to check out USBFlashCopy.
