Ideally, you should backup your data as soon as you change a file, create a file, or make a new folder. However, we realize that this is a lot for you to remember.
That’s why 77Backup is designed to do the hard work for you. You just tell the software to monitor a directory, and then every new file in that directory, every change you make to a file in that directory, will automatically be backed-up to the server, at most four hours after you make the change.
Do you have home insurance? Of course you do. You’d be in big trouble if your house burned down and you lost all your stuff. You have home insurance to replace your furniture, clothes, in case of something happening to your house.
Data backup is just like home insurance – it means you can get your data back in case something happens to your computer. Imagine that someone steals your laptop. Sure, you can buy a new laptop – but it won’t have your CV, the photos from your trip to Paris, or the film of little Timmy’s first steps, will it?
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.
All the 77backup team wishes you a happy new year, full of good surprises for you and the one you love.
We are existed, since the year will start with the release of our new software and site, so stay tuned for some surprises.
In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information (referred to as plaintext) using an algorithm (called cipher) to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key. Witch is often a password or a phrase.
The result of the process is encrypted information (in cryptography, referred to as ciphertext). In many contexts, the word encryption also implicitly refers to the reverse process, decryption, to make the encrypted information readable again.
As far as 77backup and most backup software, data is encryted before leaving the source computer, is stored cryted (data remains private) and is only decrypted when data is restored by the user.
Disaster recovery is the process, policies and procedures related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure and data critical to an organization after a natural or human-induced disaster.
Disaster recovery planning is a subset of a larger process known as business continuity planning and should include planning for resumption of applications, data, hardware, communications (such as networking) and other IT infrastructure. A business continuity plan (BCP) includes planning for non-IT related aspects such as key personnel, facilities, crisis communication and reputation protection, and should refer to the disaster recovery plan (DRP) for IT related infrastructure recovery / continuity.
Disaster can be classified in two broad categories.
1) Natural disasters- Preventing a natural disaster is very difficult, but it is possible to take precautions to avoid losses. These disasters include flood, fire, earthquake, hurricane, etc
2) Man made disasters- These disasters are major reasons for failure. Human error and intervention may be intentional or unintentional which can cause massive failures such as loss of data. These disasters include accidents, walkouts, sabotage, burglary, virus, intrusion, etc.
Generaly speaking, the ability to restore data is an important part of disaster recovery, though it is part of the very last step of a disaster recovery plan : “Corrective measures”
After months of hard work from our software engineers, we are almost ready to relaese the new 77backup. It’s faster, safer and we hope that you’ll love it.
As of today, we have just released version 1.1.5, that is limited to a reduced list of beta tester. The first official version should be available in the very beginning of 2010…
Basically, the software will be shipped in two part :
1- an interface to create your ‘jobs’ (folders and files you want to backup), and execute the restore of your data.
2- a service that runs in backgound and that will record all modifications to any files within your jobs every four hours.
The interface is simple yet efficient
The jobs are easily created and maintained
As far as security is concerned, when installing the software, you choose an encryption password that will never leave your computer… therefore your data is stored in a private way (no one will read or even use your data for marketing purpose)
Data can be restored through a few clicks… on your computer but also on a new computer.
77backup uses Amazon web services
Basically, your data is stored on seven separated servers (that’s the cloud) that are designed for 99.99 % availability… By choosing amazon as a provider, 77backup guarantees you the stability and security of a large and respected company.
When choosing 77backup/altexa, You can be sure that your data will always be available for restore at anytime.
A remote, online, or managed backup service is a service that provides users with a system for backing up and storing computer files. Online backup systems are typically built around a client software program that runs on a schedule, typically once a day (or in 77backup case : every 4 hours).
This type of program collects, compresses, encrypts, and transfers the data to the remote backup service provider’s servers. Servers that are generaly mirrored in order to ensure a 100% availability.
Remote backup has a lot of advantages :
But remote backup has some disadvantages:
As a conclusion, remote backup is a very good solution for hassle free backup. The cost is generaly small, especially compared to the troubles taht can be avoided.
77backup is a pure remote backup service, with near real time backup, powerful encryption…
An incremental backup is a backup method where only material that is newer or changed compared to the backed up data is actually backed up, in order to dramatically increase the speed of the backup process (and the related network consumption)
In order to do an incremental backup, a full backup needs to be done once, in order to initialize the process.
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