Automatic Backup when Drive Plugged In

[Tim]

On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 17:39 -0400, Chris Tyler wrote:
> I was browsing the website of a computer supplier and saw an ad for an
> HP "Simple Save" external disk drive, which automatically initiates a
> hard disk backup (on Windows) when the disk is plugged into a USB
> port.

And how do you plug the drive in to do a restore, without triggering the
start of a backup?  The description sounds a little too simple.

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