A Fully Automatic ● Off-Site ● Secure ● Remote Backup Service

The advantages to a typical business are enormous:

· All files are protected by state of the art encryption, only the customer can retrieve their files

· Completely automated off-site protection

· Fast online recovery of any version of any protected file

· Easy installation and setup

· Only an internet connection is required, eliminating the need for expensive backup equipment and media

· The backup server is monitored by highly skilled technicians whose only job is to make sure the backups are performed properly

This is how it works....
We operate an off-site storage facility for the user's data. At the facility, an account is maintained for each user. Each account is protected by a password known only to the user!

The electronic vault system is set up so that at a preset time, usually late at night the clients computer automatically wakes up and prepares its data for backup, it determines which files have been modified since the last backup, compresses them, encrypts them for security. When the data is ready the computer uses its Internet connection to contact our Servers and transmit the data.

Detailed Information and Screen Shots

Remote Backup is completely automatic. In fact, you may even forget its working. Most businesses put their lives 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.

Remote Backup accomplishes several essential steps that are often overlooked or done improperly by other backup software - especially in the regular non-automated backup systems.

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.

Remote Backup solves this problem by constantly reevaluating 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.

Remote Restore: 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 Remote Backup has such an easy to use version control system.

Remote Backup encrypts its backups using your choice of eight of the strongest cryptographic methods in the world for complete security so nobody, not even the RBS Service Provider, can read the 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 in the building with the computer, where they can be destroyed right along with the computer.

At a predetermined time, Remote Backup "wakes up" and determines which files need backing up, and what kind of backup (out of three possibilities) is scheduled for that night. It then compresses those files into archives that can in many cases be only 10% to 20% of the original file sizes. These archives are then encrypted using an encryption key known only to you. After the files are compressed and encrypted, Remote Backup uses your Internet connection or other communications device and sends the files off-site to my Remote Backup Server. Remote Backup then verifies the files and goes back to sleep.
Your valuable computer files are now safe off-site. If the building burns or your computer is stolen, your business can be saved by replacing the equipment and restoring their files from the RBS Backup Server.

Below is the main Restore screen. The left pane contains a list of your named Backup Sessions. The ones with a plus sign (+) beside them have backed-up data associated with them. Click on the plus sign to open the Session List.

Under each Session is a list of backup sessions that have been performed. They have the dates and times they were performed, in ascending order of oldest to most recent.

Double-click on a session to display its contents in the right pane. As with the standard explorer interface, you can click on the plus signs (+) to open the tree view of the backup session to further explore it.

Backups 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 your computers.

Our Version Control System keeps multiple copies of your files on our Server. Our system NEVER over-writes a file. If you want to restore a file from two weeks ago, you can, back to a specific date - as long as you still have that data on our Server. For example let’s say you work on a document on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday... Now let’s suppose it is Friday and you want to restore the document from Wednesday. No problem, you simply pick which version of the file you want. It’s just that easy.

You can set your software to rotate files. It can erase the oldest backup files by the length of time they have been on our Server. So, if you like, you can set the system to delete all files that are 30 days old (as an example). This would mean that your Server would automatically erase data as it hit 31 days old and the latest session is written to the disk, effectively keeping the most current 30 days of data online. (or 14 days, or 60 days - whatever) Or, you can turn this feature off and keep all data.

Our powerful Restore features can rebuild (in real-time at the time of restore) a full file set containing all the latest versions of files from multiple backup sets for Full, Incremental, and Differential backups.