Online Backup for PCs, Laptops and Macs is an ideal solution for protecting critical data on a single machine or a large group of them. Whether you are a sole-trader or an IT Manager, the Backup Direct service is designed to provide complete ease of use and peace of mind.

SECURITY

When it comes to online backup the first question many people ask is ‘how secure is it?’. It’s entirely the right question to ask because the last thing you want is some unscrupulous third-party rifling their way through your precious data.

Using Backup Direct’s online PC backup solution, users can have confidence that their data is backed up using the most secure technology on the market. Before being transferred from your machine, the data is encrypted to bank-level encryption standards. Only then do we send to our data centres using a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) transfer protocol.

When stored in our military-grade data centres, your data remains encrypted and completely unreadable by anybody unauthorized to see it – providing complete peace of mind.

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PERFORMANCE

Having to remember to backup is probably the biggest pain about the process because when you’re busy trying to run a business it’s usually the last thing on your mind. Online Backup removes that need to ‘remember’ - making manual backups a thing of the past.

The software includes an automatic scheduling feature that will execute your backup process for you at regular time intervals that you define. This means that you'll always have a recent copy of data to recover because the last backup will likely to have happened, at most, a couple of hours ago.

All backup functions are customised through the easy-to-use software that makes backup management simple. Just set the times of the day that you would like your backups to run and everything else is taken care of for you.

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MANAGEMENT

Traditional forms of Desktop or Laptop backup often involve effort and risk to manage. Online Backup makes backup management for both single users and IT managers easy and secure.

The service allows single users to manage and monitor all of their backup needs through an easy-to-use software interface. Whether you are an IT expert or relative novice, the application makes backup management simple.

If you are an IT manager or administrator responsible for controlling the backup of multiple machines within an employee community, the solution is a great way to maintain central control. It means you can stop stressing over who has and who hasn’t recently created a backup because a central web-based Support Centre portal shows you.

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Security benefits and features:

• Offsite data storage in two geographically separate, state-of-the-art, mirrored tier-4 data vaults in the UK – the most secure and compliant form of data storage in the world.
• Double-layered digital security for data ‘in-flight and off-site’ with AES 128 bit and SSL encryption standards – ensures you to meet all UK data protection regulation requirements including the Data Protection Act 1998 and PCI compliancy.
• Professional, physical data security with 24/7 manned and monitored vault protection – there is no securer way to safeguard business critical data.

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Performance benefits and features:

• Automatic file selection allows you to choose which files and folders you’d like to backup and then set a schedule for that backup to happen reliably each day – complete peace of mind that a recent copy of data is available.
• Multiple backup versioning means that you have as many as ten different file versions to recover after an incident of loss – make sure your recovered copy of data is a good copy of data.
• MyRoam™ secure web portal is a feature that gives you anytime, anywhere, access to your important files – logon to your own private portal from any web-browser in the world and start recovering files instantly after loss to minimise stress and downtime.
• DeltaBlock technology rapidly speeds up backup window times because only changed data to backed up files is sent over the internet – helps avoid lengthy backup windows that can hog bandwidth and make backups inefficient.
• EmailOptimizer™ allows for the silent backup of Microsoft Outlook® email – ensures your important emails are also being reliably backed up throughout the day.

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Management benefits and features:

• The simple, user-friendly software makes managing your backup schedules simple –no more confusing software configurations or fiddling, just simple and stress-free.
• LDAP and API integration allows IT managers to roll out a company-wide backup programme in a matter of minutes - you don’t even have to be physically close to the machines saving time, money and resources.
• A central web-based Support Centre portal shows reporting and diagnostics for all machines within a community - see when the last successful backup for each machine was executed and keep tabs on the machines that are backing up successfully.
• Customisable backup rules allow you to determine different policies for each machine – schedule backup for only those files and folders that need protection and streamline the efficiency of the process.

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