August 30th, 2010
Little ‘how to paper’ on the way to set up a safe backup policy in four clicks :
Step 1 : define the files and folders that are important to you :
your midterm paper,
the photos of your newborn baby,
your financial documents (IRS, accounts, bank statements…),
the business plan of your company,
and so on…
Once done, evaluate the disk space that will be needed for your backup.
Step2 : sign up for the service through our web site.
Choose the memory space you need, and the edition (details here)
[Note : as of today, the offer is limited to 1Gb and 5Gb - more to come in the future - should you need more disc space, do not hesitate to contact us - through Twitter or the web site for a custom offer - good prices included !]
Step 3: install and initialize the 77 backup software
start by downloading the software, enter your login and password (that you choose when signing up to the service).
Create your backup jobs, that is to say, create one job for each folder (of file) that you regard as valuable. The software will then upload on our secure serveur all your data.
This step can take a long time, depending of your internet connexion and the size of your documents.
Step4 : forget about your backup routine… 77backup handles it for you.
Once a job is set up, all new or modified files will be uploaded on our server once every four hour. You can be safe in he knowledge that whatever happens, a recent copy of your data will always be a few cliks away.
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August 11th, 2010
Yes, you can do this with 77backup.
You can backup as many machines to your account as you like, if you choose the premium offer. Just log in with the same user and password on both machines, and you can back up as many files, from as many machines, as your subscription allows.
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July 25th, 2010
For a small, growing or even medium sized business a disaster can be caused by a hurricane or a tornado, by a fire, or simply by a wrong keystroke. One study shows that 50 percent of data loss is caused by user error. But no matter how it is caused, a loss of data, or access to data for any kind of extended period, inevitably means a loss of revenue, a loss of productivity, a loss of reputation, and increased costs.
Disasters that threaten a business can happen anywhere at any time.
Some rather startling statistics that are generally accepted in the data recovery field and reported by the University of North Carolina’s Information Technology Service:
A hard drive crashes every 15 seconds
2,000 laptops are stolen or lost every day (in the US only)
32% of data loss is caused by human error
31% of PC users have lost all of their PC files to events beyond their control.
25% of lost data is due to the failure of a portable drive.
44% of data loss caused by mechanical failures
15% or more of laptops are stolen or suffer hard drive failures
1 in 5 computers suffer a fatal hard drive crash during their lifetime.
60% of all data is held on PC Desktops and laptops
40% of Small and Medium Sized Businesses don’t back up their data at all.
Scary isn’t it ? The worst thing is that reliable backup is not a complex or expensive thing to do…
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July 20th, 2010
Extracts from a study by HP and SCORE called : “Impact on U.S. Small Business of Natural & Man-Made Disasters” A compilation of public and private sector intelligence. (complete study in pdf)
Everything for this Gulf Coast Business was Washed Away by Katrina Makeup and wardrobe consultant, Adrienne Moncrief Hemphill has a similar story. She ran a small but thriving custom-label makeup business out of her Bay St. Louis, Mississippi home that was demolished by Hurricane Katrina. Essentially her most valuable possession was her mailing list of her some 500 customers she kept on her computer.
She lost everything in the storm, her catalogs, her Web site, her inventory of products and most disastrous of all, her mailing list.
She was able to relocate to Jackson, Mississippi where she faced the prospect of essentially starting her business over again from scratch.
“I sat down with a woman who worked with me and we tried to recreate my customer list from memory,”
“Eventually we were able to remember about 150 of the 500 customers I had. I was then able to get my web site back up and running and between the web site, a book I had written that has been on sale locally and various stories I have had in the local newspapers regarding my consulting business, over now a two year period maybe another 200 of my former customers have found me – I didn’t find them. So now I have back about 350 of the five hundred customers I had the day Katrina hit.”
But she admits, it has not been easy. But she has learned a valuable lesson. Today all the data on her computer is backed up at a remote location.
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July 15th, 2010
The short answer : yes
The longer answer : yes.
When you backup to 77backup, the first thing that happens to your data, before it leaves your machine, is that we encrypt it using the password you chose when you setup the program.
This encryption means that only you can get at your data. What’s more, several copies of your data are kept – so even if something horrible happens to OUR datacenter, then we’ll always have other copies.
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July 7th, 2010
For our dear readers, here is a capture of the design of our main module. more to come in the next days…
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May 29th, 2010
Unfortunately, no we can’t.
One of the main security aspects of 77backup is that only YOU knows the encryption password. If you lose your password, then nobody can decrypt your file, and we can’t help you !
Therefore, when choosing your encryption password, choose something that you can easily remember…
Tags: Encryption, privacy, security
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March 10th, 2010
One byte is enough memory to store 1 letter – so to store the word ‘hello’, you need 5 bytes of memory.
To store an MP3 file, you’ll need on average 1Megabyte (1MB, or 1 000 KB, or 1 000 000 Bytes) per minute the song lasts – so for a song which lasts about 3’30″, you’ll need about 3.5MB. If you have 10 MP3s to save, you’ll need somewhere between 35 and 40MB
The average photo you take on your digital camera will take up between 500KB and 2MB (it all depends on the number of megapixels your camera is).
So if your pictures take up 2MB each, you’ll be able to backup around 500 with 1GB (1000MB)
Please note – these numbers are approximate, and, yes, we know there are 1024K in a M, and 1024M in a G and so on 
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February 4th, 2010
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Addition : 2010-06-20
Note to our readers and users.
Although, the previous beta version of the software had Plura in it, the new version (as of june 2010) does NOT include plura or any kind of task not directly related to backup.
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Plura is a very small program which is installed with the sponsored beta version of 77Backup.
In the sponsored version, in exchange for free backup space on our servers, you let us use a small part of your CPU time for scientific calculations. Plura is the module which does these calculations.
Plura does not, in any way, shape or form, take over your computer, or interfere with your normal computing actions. Plura kicks in when your computer is running but idle, making use of extra CPU cycles that would otherwise be wasted. When you put your computer to sleep or turn your computer off, Plura stops running. And the Plura application is a low priority application – meaning, it sits at the bottom of the food chain. If you need your computing power for other tasks, Plura waits until there is excess capacity once again.
Link to the Plura site
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January 25th, 2010
That’s not a problem with 77Backup. You can configure the software to keep as many revisions of files as you like – so if you need to recover a file in the state it was in a week or a month ago, then you can do so.
When restoring your files, the system wil ask you witch version you want to recover.
Tags: restore a file, version management
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