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.
As of december 15th, the site Altexa.com that has been running since 1996 has been redirected to the address http://www.77backup.com.
This is an exiting step for all of us at Altexa, we are entering a new period and will rebrand the famous and award winning ‘altexa Online backup tool’ as ’77backup’
Check out in the weeks to come for new products with exiting unlimited offers, new website and lots of surprises !
What’s better than a good backup log? A good backup log that you don’t need to go look at because it comes to you by email.
As of today, the backup suite can send you a log of the backup jobs which have been run. This is sent to your registered email address (if you activate this option).
Here’s a taste…
Hmm, been quiet around here for the last few months. We haven’t been slacking though! We’ve implemented a large number of features, including multiple upload threads.
However, since a lot of the work done by the program is now done in the background, sometimes, if a problem occurs, and the program ends up in some sort of situation we haven’t envisaged, then it can be hard to tell the user this.
So we’ve implemented a new system of bug reporting. If the program encounters an exception, then it will offer to send a bug report to us, telling us more about the situation, what caused the problem, etc.
Hopefully, it’ll help us help YOU!
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