Online Backup by 77Backup

A good backup strategy is one where your data is kept safe in case of disaster, and which you don’t have to remember to execute.

If your backup strategy is ‘copy my files to a CD once a month, and leave the CD next to the laptop’, this probably isn’t a great backup strategy – the time between backups is too long, and if there’s a fire, you lose the data, AND the backup.

A better backup strategy is ‘once per day copy my files to an external hard drive, and then take it to work.  The next day, use another hard drive, and keep swapping them, with one hard drive always at home, and the other at work’.  It’s a good system, you’ll always have a copy of your data onsite (at home) and another copy offsite (at work).  The only problem with this way of backing up is that you have to remember to do the copying every day.  Plus, you only keep one ‘old’ version of your files, and it’ll be erased after 1 day.

Automated, cloud backup software (like 77Backup) is a much better way of backing your data up.  77Backup will automatically backup the data you specify, once every four hours, to our remote servers.  We keep several copies of your data in case something happens on our end.  Every time you modify a file, a new version of it will be stored in your backup – the old versions are kept for as long as you specify.  If you delete a file from your PC, you can decide to keep the backed-up version on our servers – again, for as long as you need.  Once the software has been installed on your machine, you can forget about it.  It will run automatically as soon as you turn your machine on, and you can be sure that the files you have chosen to backup, are all kept safe.

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