Online Backup Reviews

Online backup is a crucial component to any comprehensive data protection strategy. You can lose your data to viruses, hardware failure, or software corruption, but these can be circumvented by making a backup of your data on solid media like removable hard drives, tapes, or CD- or DVD-ROMs. Unfortunately, while these may protect your data from the above risks, there are other ways to lose your data.

Fires, floods, tornados, or other "acts of God" can obliterate your hard copies in addition to your electronic data. It's impossible to predict when these events will occur, so it's absolutely necessary to keep a copy of your critical data somewhere that is completely remote from your primary location. In the past, there have been a few basic solutions to this problem, including keeping offsite hard copies of your backups, or complex and involved file transfer protocols to a remote server.

Fortunately, as awareness about the importance of remote backup has grown, several companies offering online remote backup services have arisen. We have collected several of the more recognizable names in online backup and reviewed them on this site. In reviewing these products, we've taken several factors into account:

• Features
• Security
• Usability
• Price

We hope you find the following reviews useful as you take the next step in protecting your data.

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