Backup. It's one of those chores we all know we should do regularly, yet many of us stick it in the too-tedious-to-bother basket. So any program that eradicates the tedium of creating backups and entices us into becoming committed backer-uppers is something to be treasured. Second Copy 2000 is such a program.

Designed from the ground up to make backing up a complete no-brainer, Second Copy uses a elegant, six-step wizard to help you create backup profiles. Each profile uses a set of rules to determine which files are copied, with the wizard guiding you through answering five questions – what?, where?, when?, which files? and how? The final step in the wizard lets you name the profile. You can then organise profiles into groups to help you keep track of the different types of backups you've created.

Use Second Copy's profiles to tailor your backups.

The real beauty of Second Copy is that once you've set up a profile, it will back up your files automatically at pre-determined intervals, so the effort on your part is close to nil.

The fifth step in the wizard (How?) lets you choose between six different backup types – Simple, Exact, Move, Compress, Exact Compress and Synchronize – giving you fine control over the copy method.

Second Copy can copy files to hard disk, floppy, removable disk, CD-RW, network drives, and remote destinations.

While the Express Wizard is perfect for most users, power users can gain control over every nuance of the backup – from spanning multiple disks to creating incremental backups – using the Custom Wizard.

About the only thing not to like about Second Copy is the way it prompts you to insert a disk even when copying to a hard disk. You can avoid this by using the Simple mode, but it's a noticeable blemish in an otherwise almost perfect program.

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