Never lose another document again. Ever. SOS Online Backup ushers in a new age in data protection and file recovery. You can rest assured - knowing that even if the worst were to occur - the lifeblood of your business, your data, is Safe OffSite.

The SOS service provides data-protection for customers, whether they are SMEs, SOHOs, professionals at home, students, or anyone with electronic files to be protected from data-loss. SOS brings big-business IT-best-practice to small businesses and consumers.

The SOS service is delivered through a software program (the SOS Windows Client) installed on the end-user’s computer. The user then tells the program what files to protect, and each night, at a configured time, (or instantaneously at the option of the user) SOS backs up any files that have changed since the previous backup. Files are backed up to a global network of SOS datacenters powered by the proprietary SOS Server and InfiniScaleTM technologies. Data is compressed using proprietary SOS ShrinkRAPTM delta compression that ensures that only the changes made to files are sent over the network – dramatically reducing bandwidth consumption. It is this performance enhancement that forms the core of the SOS Designed-For-Dial-Up strategy, and gives our platform mass market appeal.

This stands in contrast to most online backup systems, which re-transfer the entire file that has changed – rather than just the modified binary subset of that file.

SOS can also be set up to intelligently watch particular folders – and to either backup all the files in that folder – or just a subset of them. For example – you can easily define a filter that says – “only backup the word documents in My Documents folder”. Simple – but powerful.

When trouble comes, be it a virus, a failed hard-disk, or a stolen computer, SOS is there to save the customer. The end-user simply clicks the “Recover” console within the SOS program, enters the username and password, selects the file(s) to recover, and clicks “restore file(s)”. The SOS system also keeps an archive of every daily version of the file, so if you want to get a previous version of a document, say… as it was last Tuesday, SOS can do that too. This stands in contrast to most online backup systems, where daily versions are not kept.

This software has a 5-day trial after that it requires a subhscription. Prices start @ $3.95 per year. A price chart can be found HERE