User interface and ease of use
What we’re interested in here is finding out if the day-to-day use is intuitive, responsive and pleasant. Can you quickly carry out tasks such as making changes to the configuration or restoring files? Is it easy to discover how to carry out those day-to-day operations?
When it comes to backup applications, more features usually means greater complexity in the user interface. So, we might forgive a complex interface if it seems necessary because of a correspondingly complex set of features.
Sure enough, the line-up we’ve selected spans the) to complicated but feature-packed (). As a test, we tried to estimate if the average user would be able to create a first backup without reverting to the documentation. We felt that this would be possible with all but , and there may have been some need to look at the documentation with .
