An essential, and overlooked, component of an effective backup strategy is an off-site or remote option. CrashPlan co-founder Matthew Dornquast explains how their products fill that gap at no cost for individuals, and very affordably for businesses. CrashPlan’s “social backup” model lets you manage both ends of the process, adding in bandwidth, compression, encryption and scheduling options so that it is all but invisible…until you need it. Free doesn’t mean feature-poor, however. Matthew discusses how they help you avoid the often days-long initial backup, making backups bootable, the special features that regularly check the integrity of your backup, and how you can even use an old PC to do your Mac backup bidding.
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