Offsite Backup

What is your backup strategy in case of theft or natural disaster?

Is on-site backup enough?

Do not rely on local backup devices. Tape backups are not reliable and hard drives could crash any day. Laptops might be stolen and natural disasters can wipe out even the most  reliable local backup systems along with the  stored data.

Offsite Backup is the most reliable choice to store and protect valuable data for any size of business.

How it works:

Backup Process:

The offsite backup service is delivered through a software program installed on a server or workstation. At each backup interval, the backup agent fires off and backs up selected files and folders to a global network of our backup servers hosted in various datacenters around the US for maximum data protection. Data is compressed   using a proprietary compression technique that ensures only the changes made to files are sent over the network, dramatically reducing bandwidth consumption.

The backup agent  can also be set up to intelligently watch particular folders and to either backup all the files in that folder or just a subset of them. For example you can easily define a filter that says “Only backup the word documents in My Documents folder”. Simple yet powerful.

Recovering Files:

When trouble comes, like virus attack, a failed hard-disk, a stolen computer or a corrupted local backup system, offsite backup is there to save the client who can simply initiate the data recovery process within the software   program. Just enter the username and password, select the file(s) to recover, and clicks “restore file(s)”. The offsite backup system also keeps an archive of every daily version of the file, making it possible to get a previous version of any document easily.

Privacy and Security

Our offsite backup system ensures complete privacy protection. It uses a three-tiered encryption system which encrypts data on the user’s computer, again in transit, and finally when at rest in storage. The user’s decryption password is not stored in our systems so that not even the our programmers can view the data stored on the backup servers. Only the user can ever access the data. This stands in contrast to most other online backup systems, where data is neither encrypted on your client, nor stored as encrypted data.

Easy Data Sharing:

Offsite backup also provide a very easy yet secure way to share files. Just select a file or group of files and send a share notification email to another user, The file sharing process allows a certain user to access the shared files for a limited time.