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For complete product information and to try the AutoBackup Remote Backup and Archive Service for free visit www.autobackup.ca. This service is provided, owned and operated by Fortress Data Vaulting.
Product and Service Summary
AutoBackup is the full-featured backup and restore application used with the Fortress RBS service. It replaces troublesome tape drives and forgetful computer users, operating unattended and automatically to regularly save important data securely off-site. A versatile scheduler launches the software, usually at night when computers are not being used. It compresses and encrypts backup files using a choice of encryption methods and key lengths. AutoBackup then securely sends backup files off-site to the Fortress backup servers through the Internet. It has many failsafe features, and conforms to standard backup methodology.
Product and Service Details
AutoBackup works like regular data backup software, but with one important difference. Instead of sending backups to a tape drive or other media, AutoBackup securely stores all files in encrypted format securely offsite on Fortress backup servers. It does this (usually) at night while computers are not being used. Backups can also be done on-demand, at any time.
It is completely automatic. In fact, you may even forget its working. Most businesses put their livelihood on the line every night and don’t realize it. With businesses depending more and more on the data stored in their computers, proper backups are becoming much more critical.
AutoBackup software accomplishes several essential steps that are often overlooked or done improperly by other backup software - especially in the regular non-automated backup systems.
Online backups are done on schedule, reliably. Most businesses don’t do this. For one reason or another, they don’t keep a regular backup regimen. Usually it’s because the person responsible for doing backups (if there is one) is too busy doing something else, or someone is using the computer when it’s time for a backup, or they simply forget. Since remote backups are done with automated software usually at night, when nobody is using the computer, backups are always done on schedule.
The correct files are backed up. Ordinary backup software is often installed with a list of files to be backed up. This set of files usually represents the state of the system when the software was installed, and often misses critical files. Further, it often fails to back up files that get added later. Compounding this problem, very few businesses take the trouble to reset their backup software regularly to include new files.
AutoBackup software solves this problem by constantly re-evaluating the computer system, adding files to the backup as needed. Several full copies of files are stored using a sophisticated version control system unavailable in most other backup software of any kind. This is much too important to overlook.
The general definition of proper backups requires redundancy. One must keep multiple copies of the same files at different points in their development, called versions. As an example, you should have a different copy of each backed-up file for each backup session. Further, you should be able to easily restore any of your files up to any given point in time. Banks do it, big corporations do it, and so should small businesses. Only AutoBackup has such an easy to use version control system.
AutoBackup files are encrypted for complete security. Tape backups are not generally encrypted, so anyone can read them and gain access to client database, billing records, payroll, tax info, and everything else on computers. Files are encrypted using the strongest cryptographic methods in the world for complete security so nobody, not even Fortress, can read your files.
Finally and most importantly - backups are immediately sent offsite and stored safely away from the clients' computers and their businesses. This is where almost every business makes its biggest mistake. Even if they do everything else perfectly, backups are of little use if their building burns or they are unable to physically recover their tapes from the premises. Most small companies who do backups leave the tapes where they can be destroyed alongside the computer by the same disaster.
Of course, you can see that this would be a problem in a fire or flood or an earthquake. But it's also useful in emergencies where businesses are forced to evacuate their offices quickly. Even businesses that do backups and have good, undamaged tapes have to shut down. Many go out of business simply because they don't have access to their data.
AutoBackup solves this problem by automatically storing this valuable data at more than one site. So, a business can be back up and running with new computers and their latest data no matter what catastrophe happens.
AutoBackup runs on all versions of Windows 95, 98, NT, XP, ME, 2000, and 2003 and supports all networks that run with these operating systems. Backing up other operating systems such as Unix and Macintosh is also supported.
This is how AutoBackup works...
At a predetermined time the software “wakes up" and determines which files need backing up. It then compresses those files into archives that can in many cases be only 5% to 15% of the original file sizes. These archives are then encrypted using an encryption key known only to the client.
After backup files are compressed and encrypted, AutoBackup activates the client's Internet connection and sends it’s backup. The backup is verified for integrity before sending and while being sent, then again after it reaches the Fortress secure backup servers. This ensures that the copy of the backup that's on the client computer exactly matches the copy that was sent.
After the backup is sent and verified, AutoBackup returns to idling state, once again hiding until the next backup time.
Restoring Data
AutoBackup restores data using an easy to understand user interface or web interface.
Simply pick the restore option from the menu and tag the desired files. Proceeding will instruct the client to restore to the original or an alternate location.
AutoBackup sees a list of all the files available for restoration on the data server. This file listing is sorted by Backup Set Name and Backup Date and usually contains several versions of the same files. This is part of the exclusive Version Control system built into AutoBackup. This system lets a client restore any version of their files - not just the latest version.
Clients can select files and sets of files by tagging and un-tagging files individually or in groups. The File Finder feature of AutoBackup is extremely powerful. With a single selection clients can select (as examples) the latest version of all files; only a particular subdirectory; a single drive letter or files who's names match a certain criteria. Files can be untagged the same way. So, you can come up with virtually any set of files you want to back up by using combinations of any or all tagging options.
For complete product information and to try the AutoBackup Remote Backup and Archive Service for free visit www.autobackup.ca. This service is provided, owned and operated by Fortress Data Vaulting.
