Choices are pictured in boxes. Then Safeguard dials the modem, connects to the Safeguard Interactive secure server, and uploads your files. You don't even have to type your passphrase. You can watch all the progress in the dialog line at the bottom of the session box. A few clicks of the mouse and Safeguard is performing backups.
Restoration is just as simple.
Once Safeguard is finished, it asks if you want to disconnect. If you have a big hard disk drive to back up, you may want to use Safeguard's automated backup procedure and set it to run when you're not using the computer. Safeguard was easy to use, and the Help feature explained the procedures well. The Contents pages walked us through each step, and we neither made any mistakes nor found anything unclear. We've set up a twice-weekly backup schedule to back up the My Documents directory, which is approximately 250MB, at midnight.