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Home / Home-Office Users
The impact of lost data
Home Users

Your memories and information are exposed.

Home users now use their computers for a wide variety of purposes: to store emails, photos, files, documents, children’s homework and projects, home accounts and a myriad of other items which if lost range from extremely distressing to inconvenient at the very least.

If you run a small business from home what would you do if you lost all of your customer details, order details and accounts information? This unfortunately is not an uncommon scenario.

Home PCs are vulnerable

Home PCs are situated in relatively insecure environments, are often not fully protected, are sometimes abused by younger members of the family and Home Office PCs often double up as the general family PC.

Most users start with good intentions and backup their important data to CDs, disks, USB devices or ZIP drives. Good intentions often do not last long and soon the inconvenience of having to remember and manually perform the backups means that they are not run or are only run very infrequently. Even when they are run regularly can you really be sure that the backups are good and that you could restore from them when the need arose?

Backups4All is extremely affordable, why risk losing those treasured memories and valuable business data?

If you are a home worker or running a small business from home then the consequences of not backing up correctly and regularly could be disastrous.

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The service

Our home user / SOHO packs start at 5GB of backup space.

Help is always at hand from our technical support desk should you need it. We realise that many PC users are not technical and we always endeavour to explain things in simple English.

The technical support helpdesk may be contacted by phone or email and we use local rate numbers.

With Backups4All, for only a few pounds per year, you can protect your data in a reliable and secure fashion and never have to remember to run a backup again, resting easy in the knowledge that you are protected and that you have easy access to your data 24/7 no matter where you are in the world.

Using the Backups4All service you simply define a scheduled backup set to include all of your important files. Once defined, your data will be reliably copied to our secure servers on whatever schedule you have set. Typically most users will set a schedule to backup files daily.

Each time your data is backed up you will receive an email from the data centre giving details of what was backed up and when, listing any errors which may require attention. If for any reason a scheduled backup is missed, because for example your PC was switched off, then the data centre will email you to let you know this has happened.

Multiple versions of files are stored on the backup servers allowing you to recover lost work.

All data is encrypted (scrambled) before transmission to the data centre and it is only decrypted (unscrambled) when you restore your data. This means that only you and anybody you have given your pass phrase to can access your data. Please note that if you lose your pass phrase, nobody will be able to recover your backups, including Backups4All.

Should you need to restore some files or folders, or even all of your data, you can do so from a web browser anytime, anywhere in the world.

 

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Laptop Users

Using Backups4All, it is possible to run scheduled backups to the laptop disk drive or removable media and then to upload all changes to the Backups4All servers as soon as an Internet connection is available. This is a great option for mobile users who only have occasional Internet access.

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Downloads

Documents:

 Quick Start Guide

In order to read the above document you will need the Adobe PDF reader which can be downloaded from here:

Adobe Reader

Videos:

Select a demo
Installing A-Click Backup Manager
Backing up files
Restoring files
Advanced options
Using A-Click Backup Manager with the System Tray

Download the application programme:

Please note that in order to use Backups4All you must have registered an account with us.
You can do this by setting up a free trial account or contacting us.

Operating Systems
Windows Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT
Windows Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista - i386(for these operating systems choose this option unless you know that you have a 64 bit system)
Windows Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista - x64
Mac OS X    MAC OS X v10.2 or above

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Pricing

What's included:

Feature Function
Easy to use The application has been designed for ease of use whilst still providing all of the functionality required for small business and home users.
Backup Set Configure a backup set incorporating all of the files you want to backup.
Schedule Configure a schedule for the backup set allowing your backups to run reliably and unattended on a regular basis.
Schedules may be defined by days or weeks.
Encryption The encryption algorithm used is AES, a highly secure algorithm used throughout the world.
Retention Configure retention rules to control how long out of date files (older versions) and deleted files are retained on the backup server.
Retention periods may be defined by days.
Language support Multiple languages
Restore Restore files directly from the application or via the web from anywhere in the world at anytime.
Backup Reminder When you log out from your PC you can optionally be reminded to run the backups.
File backup Backup files from your workstation, laptop or server.
Delta changes Only copy changes from the last backup to the secure servers, reducing backup times.
Volume shadow copy A Microsoft technology which allows open files to be backed up. For example, you could backup your Outlook files while still working with your emails.
Replication Your data will be replicated from our primary backup server to a secondary server for added protection.
Support Free email, chat and telephone support.

Prices

The table below gives an indication of typical mixes of photos, music tracks, video clips and documents which may be stored for each package. These quantities are based on the following assumptions: photo: 1.2MB, music track: 2.4MB, video clip: 20MB, document (i.e. Word, Excel, etc) 50KB.

10GB20GB30GB40GB
Photos340068001020013600
Music Tracks2000400060008000
Video Clips50100150200
Documents2000400060008000
Price per month£5.99£10.99£14.99£17.99

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More information

For general information about the product and service please visit the other pages on this site.

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What next?

Just follow these easy steps:

  1. Setup a free trial account
  2. Download the quick start guide and software
  3. Install the software and configure and run a backup set
  4. Relax - you're protected!

Any problems then call us on 0845 643 0891 for a chat.

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Highlights
30 day free trial
Simple to install
Simple to use
Proven technology
Stable
Secure
Scheduled
Set and forget
Backup files
Peace of mind
Quick start guides
Demo videos

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