Detailed Features Guide: SOS Online Backup

1. SOS DETAILED FEATURES GUIDE
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“SOS Online Backup is the only online backup
service that’s both simple to use and powerful ”
- PC magazine
Best of Breed
SOS Online Backup has been PC Magazine Editors’ Choice
backup solution for the last three years and is the category
leader and one of the most established SaaS vendors in
the market.
Free Integrated Local Backup
Online backup is invaluable but simply is not designed to
protect your entire computer. Using SOS’s local backup
system, you can backup your entire computer, open/locked
and operating system files to any local medium whether it is
an external USB drive, a local network location, a USB stick
or an iPod.
Powerful Recovery
SOS keeps an unlimited version history of all your files –
allowing you to roll back to any version of any of your files.
Use our time machine feature to go back to the date you
want to restore your backup and recover that snapshot of
files & versions, for example, your tax records as at April 14
last year.
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Continuous Data Protection
Engage Live Protect TM SOS’s Continuous Data Protection
module to have SOS back up files as soon as a change is
detected. You change a file, and we’ll back it up instantly.
Physical Media Upload
Chances are you have at least 20 to 30 GB of data to
backup. Over the wire, that can literally take weeks. SOS’s
exclusive PMU technology lets you “seed” your backup
by sending your encrypted data on a DVD. Alternatively
we can send you a hard disk overnight and you can copy
your backup to that disk. After that, just the binary that are
changed will be transferred, meaning your daily backup
takes just minutes.
Unlimited Number of Computer
SOS lets you backup as many computers as you like using
one account. Over 60% of households have more than one
computer and SOS allows you to protect and recover from
all of your machines unlike our competitors. Backup your
home, office and laptop computers all on one account for
easy access to ALL your files from anywhere.
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Enhanced Security & Privacy
The SOS system ensures complete privacy protection. SOS
uses a three-tiered encryption system which encrypts data
on the user’s computer, again in transit and finally when at
rest in storage.
Users can also opt to use SOS UltraSafeTM which means
that not even the SOS’s engineers can view the data stored
on the SOS servers. Only the user who put it there can ever
access the data.
This stands in contrast to most other online backup systems,
where data is neither encrypted on your client, nor stored as
encrypted data so as to prevent employees of the software
vendor from accessing stored data.
Enterprise Compression
& Transfer Systems
The SOS compression system only backs up changed files
and then only the changed 1’s and 0’s are transferred. On a
500 MB database (MYOB/Intuit/Turbo Tax) the daily transfer
can be as small as 5 KB. Our transfer system is enterprise
grade, meaning that large file transfers are resumed at the
KB of interruption, and do not start at the beginning like
most online backup systems.
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Unlimited Versioning & Archiving
Unlike other online backup systems, we do not delete the file
from your backup just because you delete the file from your
computer. Other companies call this “archiving” and refuse
to do it. If you delete your local file, they remove it from your
online backup storage. We call it “proper backup”. Over 80%
of data loss occurs due to accidental deletion. With SOS you
can be rest assured that we keep every version of every file
forever, until you tell us to remove it.
Intelligent File Filters
To help you backup precisely what you want to, tell SOS
Online Backup to watch your My Documents folder but to
ignore all *.mp3’s and *.avi’s. Alternatively you can tell SOS
to only protect *.doc, and *.xls. Either use our pre-sets or set
your own inclusion/exclusion mask.
Flexible Scheduling
It is possible to schedule monthly, weekly, daily, hourly or
perform an instant backup. Other online backup systems
run constantly, taking up valuable CPU and RAM system
resources. SOS in contrast only runs when you schedule
it, keeping you safe without impacting your system
performance.
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One Click File & Folder Sharing
From inside the SOS My Account portal you can share your
files with anyone with an email address. Never have a large
attachment bounce again. Just share your already backed-
up data with your friends and colleagues. Or if you are a
home user – easily share photos or videos.
Global Roaming Access
Because your data is being backed up daily to the SOS
Backup Server Grid - you can access your data anywhere in
the world using just a web-browser.
Never be without that critical file again.
For more information or questions, email: info@sosonlinebackup.com
or visit us at www.sosonlinebackup.com/features.htm
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