Talking of free, PerfectBackup, a leading European online backup provider, are now offering free 1GB online backup accounts to businesses in the UK.
If like so many small to micro-sized businesses you don’t have a proper data protection strategy in place, it may be an idea to take a look at what’s up for grabs. For while many companies backup data to an external hard drive or tape, it is usually stored on-site where it remains vulnerable to flood, fire and theft. And what bitter irony that would be for your backup hardware to be taken out by the disaster it was meant to protect you from.
What’s on offer from PerfectBackup is a 1GB business online backup account with remote installation and configuration totally free of charge. The configuration of the backup software takes no more than 10 minutes and all consequential backups are automatically instigated out of working hours.
Despite being free, the service promises the same levels of availability, security and functionality as the subscription service and all data stored is covered by PerfectBackup’s £1,000,000 data guarantee.
For more information, check out this page on the PerfectBackup web site.
The company will, naturally enough, try to up-sell free customers onto subscriber packages. But one gig of storage is in reality, after compression, the equivalent of approximately 300MB. At a push, then, you could just about squeeze three gigs of data into a free account.
According to PerfectBackup, the free service is totally automated and “one of the most efficient online backup services currently available.” They support a number of operating systems: Windows (ME, 95,98 XP, Vista and all server editions), Linux, Unix, Novell and Apple Mac as well as applications such as Lotus Notes/Domino, Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL and Microsoft Exchange.
