In my previous post about backing up, I talked about the need to backup the sensitive data. This one I will talk about backing up the important drivers. There are several ways to backup the system drivers. Although this is not always needed. You might however have a program or two that you no longer have the CD or program to install the drivers for. I thought we talk about this and ways you might be able to back up your drivers with.

In computing, a device driver or software driver is a computer program allowing higher-level computer programs to interact with a hardware device.

A driver typically communicates with the device through the computer bus or communications subsystem to which the hardware is connected. When a calling program invokes a routine in the driver, the driver issues commands to the device. Once the device sends data back to the driver, the driver may invoke routines in the original calling program. Drivers are hardware-dependent and operating-system-specific. They usually provide the interrupt handling required for any necessary asynchronous time-dependent hardware interface.

[Via Wikipedia]

A device you might no longer have software for a really old devices or programs drivers.  So how can you backup those old device drivers.  Here are some great programs to help you back up you drivers:

• Driver Backup — Open source program that can help back up those really important device drivers.  I’ve used this one a lot and it makes re-installing drivers easy.
• DriverMax — DriverMax extracts the installed drivers in your Windows system and copies them along with the INF files so that they can be reinstalled in the future when needed (such as when you install Windows again)
• Driver Genius — Diagnoses your hardware and identifies required drivers, Automatically searches for online driver updates – 30,000 drivers supported, Automatically downloads and installs the latest drivers for your machine – Daily updates ensure you always have the latest drivers, Quickly backs up your existing drivers and Restores every driver in a single operation.

Each one comes with there own unique qualities and uses.   I have been using Driver Backup on my Vista system without a problem.   Although some people may want something other than that.  I’ve also added one from my Recommendations the Driver Genius who might be good for people who need the extra hand in finding those rare drivers or backing them up.  If you have backed up your sensitive data this is usually what is needed to be done once a month or so.  Unless you start installing programs left and right, you only have to backup your drivers once in a while.  This is a good step to do to quickly install a system back to running order in under 2 or 3 hours of re-installation.

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