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From Woodland Hills,California :
03-12-08 :
WHAT IF DISASTER WERE TO STRIKE YOUR BUSINESS ?


HOW MUCH IS YOUR BUSINESS DATA WORTH ?







It's more than just electric charges on a magnetic-medium;
it's the lifeblood of your business. It holds all of your budgets,
your product design, contracts, sales info, emails and all the other business
correspondence that makes your business successful.

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the leader in remote backup solutions.

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With IBackup for Windows, you can backup/restore interactively or schedule regular online backups for Windows desktops, laptops and servers. It has the look and feel of the native Microsoft Windows Explorer coupled with powerful scheduling and logging features.

IBackup for Windows automatically selects critical data (like Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, My Documents, Financial Files and other Office files) with its file selection wizards for backup. Advanced features include Open file Backup, System State backup, MS SQL Server, MS Exchange Server and Oracle Server backups.



General Features

Incremental and compressed backups that greatly reduce the network bandwidth usage by transferring only the modified portions of a file


· 128-bit Secure Socket Layer encryption during transmission
· Backup/restore using mirror and relative path options more
· Easy-to-use wizards for interactive backups, restores and scheduling
· Provision to restore from the earlier Snapshots of files maintained in the IBackup account more.
· Provision to regulate Internet bandwidth usage with the Bandwidth Throttle feature more

Scheduling Features


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Automatic Selection of most common user data and application data types
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‘Automatic Power off’ option after a scheduled backup (Works with Windows 2000/NT/XP)


Advanced Features


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Supports Open file Backup for most common application data types more
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Allows backup of critical system related components using ‘System State Backup’
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Ability to backup MS SQL Server databases without stopping the database services more



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Online backup of MS Exchange Server databases and Mailboxes without interrupting the running MS Exchange Server services more



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Ability to backup Oracle Server databases without stopping the Oracle Server database services more
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Supports one-way Sync from local machine to IBackup account


System Requirements


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Windows Vista, XP, 98, Me, NT/2000, Windows 2000 (Servers), Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2003 Web Edition
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Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher
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64 MB RAM, 10 MB Free Hard Disk space for installed program, 20 MB or more recommended for local caching



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Businesses to gain from DIY hard drive rescue

John E. Dunn, Techworld
03 March 2008

Data rescue specialist Retrodata has announced what it claims is the first device for recovering damaged hard disk platters that can be successfully used by non-experts.

Called the System P. EX (for "platter extraction system"), the 75-kilogram device uses laser-guided positioning to help it accurately extract platters from any 3.5 inch hard drive with minimal user intervention. What's unusual element is that such devices normally require highly skilled operators, whereas the System P. EX can be used by a relative novice at a data recovery company.

According to Retrodata, the benefit for corporates is that it will allow smaller data recovery companies to compete against the often expensive services offered by larger companies, which could help to drive down prices.

The UK-based company won’t release photographs of the product until it has been fully patented, but did say that it would work on any drive with up to five platters, possibly more. It would also accommodate drives with internal shock-absorption damping of a type that might physically defeat rival systems.

"Only the largest of data recovery companies have tools available that even allow this process to take place," said Retrodata’s Duncan Clarke, who also invented the machine.

The System P. EX is slated for release next month, at an approximate cost of £3,500 ($6,950) per unit. This includes a 10-year warranty excluding the cost of occasionally replacing precision components within the machine.

Asked whether hard disk recovery was really as critical as it once was, Clarke responded that the "age of ubiquitous backup" was a myth.

"Let me assure you that even multinational corporates are capable of either forgetting to back up, or their backups are corrupt. There would be no such thing as "data recovery" if everyone backed up," he said.

"Some companies willingly pay £10,000 to have critical data recovered; factor in emergency turnaround, and this figure can be doubled or trebled."

Last November, Retrodata made itself unpopular with Apple after publicising an unusually large number of failures it was encountering in Seagate 2.5 inch SATA drives found in laptops such as the MacBook or MacBook Pro.

"Apple is being utterly irresponsible and should launch a product recall," Clarke said at the time.