Installation and Set Up of Data Backup Software
After you sign up for an bytehive online backup service account, you will download and install the data backup software onto your computer or your server. After installation of the bytehive software, you will choose a unique encryption key for security that will be used to encrypt all of your files. You will then set up your backup sets, which are the list of files that you want to backup and the times that you want to do backups. Setting up backup sets is easy, and you have complete control over your backups.
Online data backups start automatically
From then on, as long as your computer is online and functioning, data backups will start automatically according to the schedule that you have set. While backups are typically scheduled during the night when there are few people using your computers, backups have little or no impact on your computer's performance and your ability to access the Internet. With bytehive, you also have the option of manually starting an online data backup at any time.
Your computer is searched for data files
When a backup starts, your hard drive is first scanned for any data files contained in your backup set that are new or have changed since your last online data backup. Only these files need to be transmitted, minimizing the time it takes the online backup service to perform as well as minimizing your valuable bandwidth.
Backed up files are compressed
Once the bytehive data backup software identifies a file that needs to be backed up, it compresses the file using industry leading compression technology. File compression ensures that not only do online data backups take shorter time but that you limit the amount of storage space that you use on our servers, thus saving you money.
Files are encrypted for data security
After being compressed, each data file is individually encrypted using your unique 256 bit encryption key for data security. Because your encryption key is stored only on your computer and is never transmitted over the Internet, no one but you ever has access to your files.
Data sent securely over the Internet
For added data security, each encrypted file is then sent over the Internet via a secure channel using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, the same Internet transmission technology that is used for online banking.
Remotely stored in multiple data centers
For data protection, all of your files are sent to two secure data centers, located hundreds of miles apart from each other. Each data center has 24/7 monitoring, advanced security technology such as biometric access controls, backup generators and redundant connections to the Internet.
Recovering your data files is easy
Any backup method is only as good as its ability to retrieve and recover files. This is just as true for online data backup. With bytehive, file recovery can be done in just a few clicks of your mouse. You have the ability to retrieve your files at any time and as often as you need to. Using the bytehive data backup software, you simply click on the individual files or folders that you want to retrieve and they will be restored to your hard drive. And if the need arises after a system failure, you can perform a full file recovery and retrieve all of your backed up data just as easily.
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