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BackupRight has reached a very important business milestone - the 50 millionth file was successfully restored by a customer on May 7th 2007.
This speaks volumes for the reliability of BackupRight, and we hope to arrive at 75 million files restored in the near future.
Read - Press Release (PDF)
We are pleased to announce the release of BackupRight Express, our latest remote backup solution designed for home and laptop users.
BackupRight Express offers the same security and reliability of BackupRight Pro (our original product), but with one-button backup simplicity.
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Three Googlers, Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber and Luiz Andr´e Barroso, have released a study on disk drives and their failure rates in a large population.
The study surveyed 100,000 drives of different specifications from various manufacturers. They founds that often times drives using only SMART specifications (designed to monitor drive health) did not accurately predict the drive failures.
Even more interesting is that they found drive temperature and activity were less of a factor than previously thought.
The moral of the story - all drives will fail and often times without warning.
Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population - (PDF Link)
The always plugged-in Jonathan Sidener has written a great article on data backup. The article covers all of the different options that are available for backing up data.
It is great to see BackupRight featured, and we certainly think that it’s the best option available when it comes to protecting your important files.
Read - Backup plan
Phil Baker from the San Diego Daily Transcript has written an article about some solutions/alternatives to traveling with your laptop and mentioned BackupRight by name.
There is no doubt that having your files accessible via the BackupRight web interface is a great way to avoid bringing your laptop along on your travels.
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.
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
