Online Backup Easier than Ever

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There is nothing worse than data loss. You come to the office, and for whatever reason, your data is not available.
Some reasons could be:
-Natural Disaster
-Fire
-Server Crash
-Laptop or Computer Theft
-Hard Drive Crash

If you’ve ever have had an experience like any of these, you understand the sinking feeling in your stomach when you realize what you may have lost. The computer is an incidental, but the DATA that is lost, *THAT* is the lifeblood of your business.

Online backup, http://www.CoolBackupTool.com

Now if you are diligent, you have backed up your system at least 1x a week, you know you should do it once every 24 hours, but life is just too busy. Many have started off with similar noble intentions, but became lax. In fact, permit me to ask a daring question…. if your computer system evaporated right now, how soon could you be back up and running with your data restored?

Backup is one of those things you don’t want to go cheap on, you need to pay for automating the process. Well, I have recently reviewed a solution for this. It is an online backup solution which will backup data you select on a scheduled basis, OVER THE INTERNET. Making restoring from a distaster as simple as logging in, requesting the files, and saving them to your computer.

A few things I like about the solution.
1.) It integrates with windows explorer, so you can right click on the drive, and see your files that you have recently backed up, and even restore them from their servers.

2.) Price. It is free for up to 2GB. Wow. AND if you have more than 2GB, you can pay for their unlimited plan for $4.95 a month (less if you pay for a 1 or 2 year plan upfront).

3.) While the first backup is the slowest (backing up all the files), subsequent backups only backs up new or changed files. No need to worry about switching media (tape backup), or taking backups to offsite storage. Oh and it has a ‘throttling’ feature, so if you are working on the computer and it is running in the background, it doesn’t hog your system…nice.

A couple things I don’t like:
1.) The first backup takes a while, and depends on the speed of your internet connection. Example, 8GB took 3.5 days. In truth, you could start Friday at noon, and it should be finished by Monday morning. However, this is MUCH less time it would take to recover if there were no backup at all.

2.) It doesn’t let you download directly from your web profile. It actually takes your request, compiles and email, and sends you a link in email. You then need to click that link to download the files. The effect is just the same (you get your restored file), just not as instant as I would have thought.

If you don’t have a reliable backup solution in place, you need to do something, FAST! Make it a priority. Perhaps you’ll find this one useful, as I did.

http://www.CoolBackupTool.com.

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