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why use FileFiche

15 Reasons to use FileFiche Backup:


Online Backup

Online backup copies your data off-site so that it’s not susceptible to theft, fire, flood, or other natural disaster.

Online backup doesn’t require external hardware, saving time and money on purchase, installation, testing, and troubleshooting. Also, external hardware eventually becomes obsolete and must be replaced.

Online backup is available over your internet connection: it doesn’t require turning on or off equipment, digging out, inserting, marking, or extracting storage media.

Because of that, it can be accomplished automatically, even while you sleep. Online backup allows you to get the most out your computer hardware and internet access investments.

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Automatic Backup

“Less than 1% of small businesses perform daily backups.” (Gartner Market Research) With automatic backup, your daily backup regimen happens without you needing to lift a finger or push a button. It’s superior to one-button backup, more efficient, and less intrusive.

Set it and forget it.

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On-Demand Backup

Double-click on a backup icon and start a backup. That’s it. Backup, restore, and verify as often as you like. There are no bandwidth limits.

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Incremental Backup

Once the initial backup set is stored away, the backup is kept up-to-date by sending only the data which has changed since the last backup. This works at the file level (i.e. only new files are uploaded) and within files (i.e. we use a sophisticated algorithm that searches for the changes between the backed-up and current file and only needs send the changed data).

Furthermore, in contrast to tape-based incremental backup, the backup always stores a complete updated data set. In other words, a restore doesn’t require an initial data set followed by a sequence of several incremental updates (as is used by Windows System Restore, for example).

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128-Bit Private-Key Encryption

We utilize the Blum-Blum-Shub algorithm for encryption, which has been proven to be at least as secure as the most secure 128-bit private key encryption algorithm. See http://www.answers.com/topic/blum-blum-shub. Note that private-key encryption is, in general, stronger than public-key algorithms such as that used by secure http.

Note also that you can elect for your encryption key to be yours alone. In that case, even we can’t decrypt your data without it.

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Dynamic Backup

Often, your important files are scattered in several different folders on your hard drive. Most backup software is geared to replicating entire folders, which would be highly inefficient. On the other hand, manual copying of these files for backup is inconvenient and error-prone.

FileFiche allows for “dynamic backup folders” - that are meant to contain copies of critical, often-changing files. When a backup is made of such a folder, all files in that folder are automatically updated – wherever that file may be on the hard drive.

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Backup Staggering

Keeping several past versions of critical, files is highly recommended. All too frequently, backing up a corrupted file can “clobber” the previous good version. Often, one would like to restore from (or even just reference) a version from several days prior. FileFiche features several mechanisms to accomplish this.

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Easy to Restore

Users are often very familiar with the backup process because it’s something they do every day. The restore process is not so. In FileFiche, restore is as easy as the original backup - click on the appropriate icon on the desktop or in a folder. Restored data, by default, is put in an empty directory, from which it can be copied to other parts of the file system, if needed.

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Verifiable

Verifying the backup is a critical, but often overlooked (or unavailable) part of the backup process. FileFiche provides mechanisms for users to ensure that the backup data exactly mirrors the data in the system. A restore (or partial restore), followed by a verification ensures that the restore process will work when needed.

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Ready Access to Files

In addition to the normal restore process, users can restore data interactively using just the FileFiche executable file. In this way, users can restore files (or simply gain access to files) on computers other than the one from which the backup was made.

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Initial On-Site Backup

During setup, the initial backup set is made. This saves time and bandwidth. Thenceforward, incremental updates are relatively fast. This option is usually not available with other backup services, resulting in a long period (often up to a day) for the initial data to upload.

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Recovery from Partial Transfers

FileFiche includes mechanisms to ensure that if a backup is interrupted, backup will resume from the point from which it stopped. This is critical when saving a particularly large backup set.

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Month-to-Month or Yearly Contracts

We provide month-to-month backup service agreements. You may cancel at any time for any reason. We want to keep you as a client. We also provide yearly contracts, usually with a cost incentive.

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Premium Software

FileFiche was designed in-house and is licensed, distributed, and maintained exclusively by H Street Business Solutions, LLC. It was designed and implemented by an individual with over twenty years of professional software design experience. FileFiche is the main data backup and restore tool that has been used by H Street for the last three years both internally and for customer data storage and retrieval tasks. FileFiche works with all Windows operating systems from Windows 95 through and including Windows 7.

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H Street Business Solutions

H Street Business Solutions is a full-service computer support, repair, upgrade, and networking IT organization. We have lots of experience in computer (particularly hard drive) failure recovery and replacement and often advise companies and individuals on computer security and best practices. We do more than online backup.

We provide personalized service. Call us at (301) 593-3131 if you have any questions or problems. We’re here to help.

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