Online Backup is similar to a traditional backup except that, instead of storing your files on tapes or external Hard drive, a complete daily backup of your data is sent over the Internet to our secure backup servers. Your data is encrypted for security and privacy and compressed to save space and transmission time. Bitguard Data Solutions Backup takes the worry and hassle out of data backup storage and recovery giving you peace of mind and confims that by seding you an E-mail Detailed Backup Report because your data backups are done in an automatic way, virtually eliminating user error. In addition, your daily backups are always stored off-site, which is the most important component in guarding against data loss in any catastrophic event like fire, theft, hardware failure, Hurricanes, Power failures, water damage, User Error. Online Backup is also flexible, allowing you to backup over Intranets, the Internet, or Dial-Up Networking to automatically protect you and your clients from loss. Plus, you can instantly restore your data from any location.
Why switch to Online Backup?
Simplify your backup, eliminate complex and tedious, manual tape backup tasks.
Automate your backup, offsite protection and recovery without user intervention.
Make it reliabile, recover your data with 100% guaranteed reliability.
What files should you select?
Since your entire hard drive is likely to be much larger than the amount of storage you have purchased on the backup server, you can avoid backing up any programs that you can reinstall from a CD, such as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, etc. Why pay for storage for "stuff" you can easily re-install? Try to aim your selection on things like your "My Documents", "My Pictures" or "My Music" folders and data files of your important programs like accounting, income tax, contact management, etc. Your online backup software comes with predefined filters, which allow you to automatically select categories of files without knowing where all the files are located. Check the help for Filters to learn how they can be used.
How long will the first backup take?
A The initial backup will be the most time consuming because all files need to be encrypted, compressed and sent to the Backup Server at the data center. Although we employ the most sophisticated technologies available there will still be a large amount of data to upload. Your upload connection speed will be the limiting factor in this process. You can check you upload speed using a test such as http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest to see the data transfer rate you should expect. Remember, that with a broadband connection (cable or dsl) your upload speed is normally much slower than your download speed. You can stop and restart the backup at any time and many people will complete the backup over a couple of nights and in some cases longer. Once the initial backup is complete you will see the real benefit of the software with daily backups only taking a few minutes.
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