The realm of restore backup software has evolved by leaps and bounds over the past few decades, as file storage has become plentiful, network speed has grown faster, and software has become more reliable.

Once upon a time the only choice the majority of companies had, to implement restore backup software was to host a backup program on your local hard disk that would kick off once in twenty-four hours and take a snapshot of your computer's local drive. It would then compress this snapshot into a proprietary data format, which then was transferred onto tape drives attached to the PCs themselves.

A generation later, we evolved to the use of recordable and rewritable CD-ROMs and DVDs for reliable files storage.

Now fast forward to the present day and we now see that many people have access to use USB drives to quickly backup their files.

Today, we have the capability to backup your PC's local drive on-demand on autopilot without the use of any hardware. All you require is a software client and high-speed Internet access.

For a fraction of what it would have cost you years ago, you can now back up your data online. While you edit your files, they are encrypted and replicated securely across the Internet to a remote backup facility. There is no need to schedule the backups to run, because the client agent scans for changes on the fly.

Restoring your own files is also fairly simple. Your backup folder is mapped to the Windows Explorer as a shared drive. So you can restore your data by copying and pasting them from the shared to your hard drive.

Restore backup software has definitely advanced since the age of old tape drive backups.