Storage vendor Seagate has taken the wraps off a simple plug-and-play backup system for Windows PCs, dubbed Replica. The idea behind Replica is to keep the backup process simple and straightforward: they back up an entire Windows PC—operating system, applications, documents, and everything else— so that a users can restore their system in its entirety to a new drive in the event of a hard drive failure. Replica’s first backup can be time consuming—because it’s copying all the system’s files—but subsequent backups go quicker because it only has to grab new or changed files.
