What happens next?
- You log off your computer as normal (leaving it powered on).
- At the scheduled time, the first backup begins by compressing and encrypting your selected data. You needn't worry about closing your applications due to the 'open-file module' which is included in all plans. This initial backup may take some hours depending on the volume of data and speed of your internet connection.
- When finished you are sent an email report, indicating the status of the backup. Additionally our staff review logs to ensure it has completed successfully.
- Subsequent backups detect the differences in your data and compress and encrypt only the changes within your files. This is called 'In-file delta' and dramatically decreases your bandwidth usage, somtimes only transferring 2% of the total file size.
- If a file is deleted, the original file (and its changes) are kept for (by default) 7 days, so you can easily recover accidently deleted data. (The retention period is set by you).
- Every action (backup, restore, config change) is logged with email reports sent to you and our staff, so you are never left in the dark.
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