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Why Backups4All?
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How confident are you that your backups are carried out regularly and correctly?

How confident are you that your backups will successfully restore?

A comprehensive data protection solution

Analysts estimate that more than half of all backups have significant errors.

Backups4All is a comprehensive data protection system and an easy-to-use and reliable backup solution to ensure that important business and personal data is protected and is readily available when needed.

Typically, businesses and home users have a number of ways of backing up their data. These usually include copying data to tapes, DVDs or CDs or to other removable media. The downsides to these approaches are that each day somebody needs to remember to:

  • Load the media
  • Run the backup
  • Take the media offsite to be stored in a different location to the computers which have been backed up

Sometimes none of the above is done on a regular basis leaving exposure to data loss.

Unfortunately, loss of data will most likely happen to all of us at some time. Today, online backup offers a reliable and simple solution to this very real problem. Here at Backups4All, we offer best of breed technology with best of breed flexibility and service.

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Why do I need online backup?

There are many causes of data loss which unfortunately affect computer users all the time (figures taken from various consultancy reports):

  • Hardware errors (78%) – disk failures being the most common
  • Software (7%) – data corruption
  • Human error (11%) – accidental deletion / overwriting of files
  • Viruses (2%)
  • Theft of equipment and accidental damage (1%)
  • Environmental factors such as fire and flood (1%)

Many of the above liabilities can be mitigated by using online backup simply because your data is stored offsite in a completely independent location and because it is always available to be restored in the event of theft, mistake, accident or disaster.

Remember, the cost of equipment can be recovered via your insurance policies but your data is typically invaluable and irreplaceable.

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Easy to use

Backups4All offers a choice of two backup applications to be installed on your computer.

Our home and SOHO service comes with a very easy to use application which allows backups to be configured with a few clicks of the mouse. A backup set is defined to include all files to be stored on the secure servers, a schedule is set and you are emailed full details of actions taken each time a backup or restore is performed. This product is designed for the Windows platform and even users with little PC expertise should have few difficulties in using it.

Business account customers are provided with an application offering more versatility; allowing multiple backup sets and schedules to be defined as well as allowing email and database servers to be backed up in addition to files. This product will run on multiple operating system types including Windows, Max OS X, Linux, Solaris and Novel Netware.

The user interfaces of both these applications are cleanly laid out and easy to use. Functions and buttons are self-explanatory and there are quick start guides and video demos available elsewhere on this site.

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Restoring data

Using the backup manager program or web interface you can restore your data to any computer you like anywhere in the world 24 hours a day 365 days a year.

Backups4All provides flexible retention policy settings and allows you to restore snapshots of your data sets as at a particular point in time.

If you are a business account customer and have a large amount of data to restore, as an additional service we can arrange to provide a copy of that data on portable storage media to be delivered to your site for the recovery operation, saving Internet download times. All data on the portable media will be securely encrypted and will only be available for use after you have entered your pass phrase into the restoration software. If the media were lost or stolen during transportation, nobody would have access to your data.

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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 business users who are frequently out of the office and who only have occasional Internet access.

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Operating systems

The home and SOHO version of the product runs on the Windows operating system.

The business account version of Backups4All runs on all major operating systems including:

  • Windows
  • Mac OS X
  • Linux
  • Solaris
  • Novel Netware

If you are a home or small business user who needs to backup data from a platform other than Windows then please contact us.

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Open file backup

Backups4All can backup files even when they are open, for example, Backups4All can backup your Microsoft Outlook data files even when you are working with your emails.

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Automatic updates

When we upgrade our software, you receive the updates automatically.

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Multilingual

If English is not your first language then take advantage of the fact that all versions of Backups4All provide a multilingual user interface:

  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Icelandic
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Norwegian
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Turkish

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Highlights
30 day free trial
Comprehensive protection
Your data is safe
Easy to use
Worldwide access
Laptop friendly
Multiple operating systems supported
Backup open files
Automatic updates
Multilingual

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