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  • Recovering data during times of need is critical to all, and few can afford to make inefficient use of business-technology resources.

    Information Week
    January 20, 2004

  • No matter which back-up product a small company chooses, many organizations make the same mistakes. The most common mistake is to not back up at all, or to neglect backing up on a regular basis, Aberdeen Group vice president David Hill told News Factor.

    Newsfactor.com
    September 8, 2003

  • ...while DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM are economical backup solutions, individual users remain responsible for putting backup rotation schemes in place and for keeping track of the media. With individual tapes' total data capacity well below that of hard drives found in today's PCs, backups would often have to span multiple tapes, making these tasks even more of a chore. Online backup services make more sense.

    PC Magazine
    March 11, 2003

  • Many small businesses fly by the seat of their pants when it comes to backup and disaster-recovery...

    CRN
    March 15, 2004

  • Among the many lessons learned from 9/11, protecting your business's crucial information should be one of them.

    Entrepreneur Magazine
    September, 2002

  • Neglecting to back up data on a regular basis is one of the most common mistakes SMBs make, says Aberdeen Group vice president David Hill. The second-biggest mistake is not having a rotation policy for sending tapes or other media offsite for disaster-recovery protection.

    NewsFactor.com
    November 4, 2003

  • Few workers think about backing up files and data when heading home each day. People expect their data to be there when they show up the next morning. We all take for granted the reliability of our stored work.

    PC Magazine
    January 15, 2002

  • Consider just how much time, money, and effort it would take to recover a system whose files were destroyed by mechanical failure, a virus attack, or user error. Also consider how much money you would lose simply because of downtime. A major purpose of backing up is to avoid such expenses.

    PC Magazine
    September 3, 2002

  • A study by the American Red Cross found that 40% of small businesses never reopen after a major disaster. The reason - lack of planning and preparedness. Developing a disaster recovery strategy is a critical undertaking for any firm...

    Rockland Business World
    September 2003

  • Earthquakes, fires, floods--disasters happen all the time. Whether man-made or from Mother Nature, unexpected catastrophes are less likely to defeat businesses that have effective disaster-preparedness plans in their back pockets...Back up all your crucial data and keep those files off-site in a safe place.

    Entrepreneur Magazine
    April 2002

Obar4u works like regular data backup software, but with one important difference. Instead of sending backups to a tape drive or other backup media attached to the computer, Obar4u software sends the backup over the Internet, regular telephone lines, or other network connections to our online backup server safely offsite. It does this (usually) at night while computers are not being used. Backups can also be done on-demand, any time. It is completely automatic. In fact, you may even forget its working.With businesses depending more and more on the data stored in their computers, proper backups are becoming much more critical.

Obar4u software accomplishes several essential steps that are often overlooked or done improperly by other backup software - especially in the regular non-automated backup systems.
Online Backups are done on schedule, reliably. Most businesses don't do this. For one reason or another, they don't keep a regular backup regimen. Usually it's because the person responsible for doing backups (if there is one) is too busy doing something else, or someone is using the computer when it's time for a backup, or they simply forget. Since online backups are done with automated software usually at night, when nobody is using the computer, backups are always done on schedule.The correct files are backed up. Ordinary backup software is often installed with a list of files to be backed up. This set of files usually represents the state of the system when the software was installed, and often misses critical files. Further, it often fails to back up files that get added later. Compounding this problem, VERY few businesses take the trouble to reset their backup software regularly to include new files.

Obar4u solves this problem by constantly reevaluating the computer system, adding files to the backup as needed. Several full copies of files are stored using a sophisticated version control system unavailable in most other backup software of any kind. This is much too important to overlook.The general definition of "proper" backups requires redundancy. One must keep multiple copies of the same files at different points in their development, called versions. As an example, you should have a different copy of each backed-up file for each backup session. Further, you should be able to easily restore any of your files up to any given point in time. Banks do it, big corporations do it, and so should small businesses. Only Obar4u has such an easy to use version control system.

Obar4u Backups are encrypted for complete security. Tape backups are not generally encrypted, so anyone can read them and gain access to client database, billing records, payroll, tax info, and everything else on computers. Obar4u encrypts its backups using your choice of eight of the strongest cryptographic methods in the world for complete security so nobody, not even the Remote Backup Service Provider, can read the files.

Finally and most importantly - Backups are immediately sent offsite and stored safely away from the clients' computers and their businesses. This is where almost every business makes its biggest mistake. Even if they do everything else perfectly, backups are of little use if their building burns, or they are unable to physically recover their tapes from the premises. Most small companies who do backups leave the tapes in the building with the computer, where they can be destroyed right along with the computer. Of course, you can see that this would be a problem in a fire or flood or an earthquake. But it's also useful in emergencies where businesses are forced to evacuate their offices quickly.

Obar4u solves this problem by automatically storing this valuable data at more than one site. So, a business can be back up and run with new computers and their latest data no matter what catastrophe happens.

Compliance

Sarbanes-Oxley, FINRA, HIPAA, and other regulations mandate safeguards surrounding the backup, privacy, and availability of sensitive information and certain records.  Obar4u goes to extreme lengths to be commercial-grade, offering all the access and security controls regulated industries desire.

Blog

After you sign up for a our online backup service account, you will download and install the software onto your computer or your server. After installation of the software, you will choose a unique encryption key that will be used to encrypt all of your files. You will then set up your backup sets, 

Security

Obar4u is committed to protect your valuable data, residing on our servers. We follow best practices to ensure data security. The servers on which Obar4u accounts reside are continuously monitored for any attempted network attacks on a 24 x 7 basis, using sophisticated software tools.