What Is Online Backup?

What is online backup? It's business continuity software. Think of it as a data repository or a connected online backup that safeguards your business or personal computer records.

What is online backup? Rob Cosgrove decided to dig deeper into that question and came up with the term "remote backup." We use that term all the time now, but Rob's been thinking about business continuity software since 1987, before most of us had our first PC. Rob envisioned a data repository that was safe and secure. A business could use a connected online backup much like a bank. At the end of the day, you make your deposit in the data repository and rest easy knowing nothing will ever be lost.

But Rob wanted it to be automatic. He knew you couldn't rely on one person in the company to archive everything everyday. The end result was Remote Backup Systems' RBackup business continuity software, so easy to run a child could make it work.

What is online backup? Backups that are done on schedule, into the repository, reliably, and securely. 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. Your connected online backup acts like an automated insurance policy for your virtual data.

The correct files are backed up through your connected online backup. 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. RBackup finds the files that were worked on TODAY and updates them, which is much smarter than a simple archiving system. And it all occurs overnight.

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