What was once too time consuming and ultimately not possible with dial-up internet connections, has exploded with the expansion into broadband (which is fast and getting faster!).

Anyone who has broadband access to the internet can backup their desktop computers, their servers, and their laptops over the internet. And, technology is continuing to improve and the speed at which data can be sent offsite and restored is getting faster and faster. The price of that speed will continue to drop as fiber optics and cable and DSL compete for business.

The cost of using internet to do data backup has brought a businesses hard costs down dramatically over the past five years. No longer do you need to buy tape, extra servers, and pay employees to monitor them when you backup over the internet. Additionally the inevitable cost of data-loss due failure to practice restorations, secure tape drives and monitor onsite storage thresholds is growing. The approximate cost to restore data, if it's even re-creatable can be in the thousands to hundreds of thousands, compared to the minimal monthly costs associated with backing up over the internet.

Online backup also alleviates the concerns associated with traditional backup plans: daily confirmation emails let you know your data is secure and stored, Proven Backup has unlimited storage space which allows your storage space to grow as your data volume grows. And, Internet backup is safe via multiple layers of encryption. All data is encrypted before leaving your desktop, laptop or server and is sent over an encrypted connector.

One of the best features of backing up data over the internet is that it allows you to backup your data from anywhere and restore your data from anywhere - your offices, tape drives or server manager don't need to be accessible.

Proven Backup offers Easy Backup of Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 / 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 / 2000, Lotus Domino/Notes 5.0 or above, Oracle 8i or above, MySQL 3.2.4 or above, Windows System State, Outlook and Outlook Express (i.e. *.pst, *.dbx and *.wab), Important personal settings, e.g. Desktop, Favorite, My Documents and History, other common files (e.g. *.doc, *.xls), support for backing up only changes within a file (using in-file delta technology), backing up open files on Windows XP/2003 (Volume Shadow Copy), Windows NTFS access privileges, Linux access privileges and modes, Mac OS X metadata and resource forks.