Adam Ant Computers has partnered with MozyPro to provide his customers with a inexpensive, convenient, secure and full featured online backup service.

Having an online backup system will save your day should your premises ever burn down, or the fireproof box containing your backup disks get stolen.

You've probably asked yourself "Why should I use an online backup site when I can just make backups with CD's on on my hard drive?"

Here's somethings for you to consider:

• Online backup does not require user intervention. The user does not have to change tapes, label CDs or perform other manual steps.
• Online backup maintains data offsite. Perhaps the most important aspect of backing up is that backups are stored in a different location from the original data. Traditional backup requires manually taking the backup media offsite.
• Data storage abroad could be an advantage too.
• Some Online backup services will work continuously, backing up files as they are changed but is more expensive.
• Most Online backup services will use a 128 - 448 bit encryption and sends compressed data packages via a internet secure (https) connection.

Disadvantages of Online Backup?

Only one to consider really. When you are restoring a very large backup, say 100 GB, it can take a while to download it. That doesn't happen that often. And with well written software you can start the restore at 5:00 PM and come back the next morning ready to start to work.