Since we launched BackupRight we had been offering trial accounts limited to 500 MB. We listened to all the feedback from our users who said that they needed some more room to see if BackupRight was right for them.

If you have not yet signed up for a trial account, what are you waiting for? Its FREE and now its twice the size.

Data backup is not something new. The ways for backup have not changed much over time, from the time of the 5 ½ in. floppy the best plan was just to make another copy of the disk. Today, when most people can hardly remember what a floppy disk looks like the same ‘making a copy’ backup method still is all people know how to do. Given that so much of our lives are digital isn’t it about time that a better solution replaces this stone age method?

Even if you remember to backup to another media (CD/DVD/External Drive) there are still too many problems to consider it a reliable backup solution. Here are my top 5:

1. Automatic: It is too easy to forget to backup at the end of the day or week, this is the number one reason that the old method for backup is not a viable one - it requires you to click buttons, insert blank disks, or copy files.
2. Reliability: CDs and DVDs don’t (wont) last forever sometimes they don’t even burn correctly the first time for some strange reason. An external hard drive will eventually fail, especially if your moving it around.
3. Security: Chances are that your data is not encrypted on CD or DVD and can be accessed if it is misplaced.
4. Complexity: The size limit of CDs and DVDs are a constant balancing act in backup, trying to fit your entire Outlook .pst onto one CD or your “My Documents” onto one DVD has always been a challenge.
5. Recovery: The most important part of a backup is the ability to recover, when you have to try restore files from other media you have make sure that they are easily accessible, meaning that taking them offsite is adding safety but cost you time. This also means that multiple backups are made of the same files and having to keep track of the dates can be very confusing.

Take advantage of you high speed broadband connection and make sure that you data is safe and easy to recover.

So here we are, the first post of our business blog…

What kind of things can you expect to find here? Well, we will be keeping you updated with the latest company news and product development as well as occasional commentary on the online backup and data storage business.

Please feel free to leave us any comments, good or bad. We always enjoy feedback.

BackupRight Team