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Don’t confuse storage with online backup
Unlike online storage, online backup is not meant to free up storage space on your computer. Instead, it makes a copy of your computer’s content, which can then be restored to the location of your choice (on a new computer, for example). It is not archiving!
Key takeaways
- Online backup makes a copy of your data that can be restored wherever you want.
- It protects your data against loss, theft, viruses and handling errors.
- It lets you go back to previous versions and encrypts both the data and its transfers.
- Online storage, by contrast, is used to synchronize and share data: it is a collaboration tool.
Protecting your data against the unexpected
The primary purpose of online backup is therefore to protect your data against unexpected events such as:
- the loss of your computer or a hard drive crash;
- the theft of your computer, a virus or a hack resulting in data loss;
- a handling error leading to the deletion of key files.
With online backup
Data can be duplicated several times, at different points in time.
This process makes it possible to go back to previous backup versions. Backup software applies two types of limits: time-based (all versions within a defined time interval are kept) or count-based (a defined number of versions is kept).
In addition, online backup encrypts both the data and its transfers.
Restoring previous versions with WeDoBack
With WeDoBack, you can go back to previous versions within the retention period included in your plan.
For example, if your plan includes N days of retention, you can restore older backups from within those N days.
What about online storage?
Online storage, on the other hand, helps synchronize data between the devices and computers used frequently throughout the day. It is a collaboration tool, an archiving space that allows data to be shared simultaneously.
Online backup: a restorable copy of your data, previous versions, encrypted data and transfers
Online storage: synchronization across devices and simultaneous data sharing, a collaboration tool
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