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John
I started with NetStore and backup in London, England to their mirrored
sites there. I've been with them since they started. Since then, I've
recommended them to others, like my brother, and he never received a
response, so it appears that they are concentrating on the big guys. They
have signed contracts with CISCO and several other worldwide companies and
are supporting them. My guess is that they are out of the private,
individual business.
They just moved to new servers in new locations and gave us 6 months free to
compensate us for any trouble (which I never had, BTW). I don't remember
when this was, as I haven't been billed in a while, so I can't even tell you
what I'm paying. It is cheap! That I remember. :) Something like $15 a
quarter or so. Great support, great software, fully encrypted and they have
some sort of incremental backup technique that minimizes your backup size.
Also, there is no limit to what you back up, size wise. No extra charges.
When I back up my Metastock data every night, it basically just adds about
1k to each file.
I've had to restore a few times, and it worked like a charm as opposed to my
on site tape backup, which after a period of time, I couldn't even read the
tape, let alone remember where the files were. They keep multiple
generations online as well. If the restore is too large, I have the option
of ordering a CD-ROM, but I haven't had any problems yet.
I think they are working on modifying their software, so that if you have
Microsoft Office 2000 Professional, for example, they will note it, back up
your .ini files and whatever else you need that relates to your copy of the
software, and then be able to reload it from a master copy on their system.
Anyway, I highly recommend using an internet based facility. Mine runs
nightly as I power down. It goes through and automatically backs everything
up before shutting down.
Regards
Guy
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of John Manasco
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 4:53 PM
To: Metastock List
Subject: Off site backup
Does anyone know of a good, preferably web based, off site data storage
facility? I seem to remember Guy Tann doing backups to an offsite facility.
Please hurry, I have a hurricane on my doorstep.
John Manasco
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