Creating Secure Online Backups

>for anyone to access the contents of your online
Today, many pc users are storing files on the Internetbackups. Since encryption is performed on-the-fly
by using some free online storage service. While thesebackup operations will be performed quickly and easily
online locations can easily be used to store backupseven when use strong encryption is used. To create
as well, you should be very careful when sendingan online backup using WinBackup you simply select
sensitive documents and emails across the Internet.an appropriate security level and start the backup. The
Since bandwidth and storage space is often limited,result will be a single compressed and encrypted file
you should also consider compressing the data beforethan can safely be transmitted to your online backup
sending it to a remote server.location.
EncryptionCompression
When transmitting private information across publicWhen sending backups across the Internet to an online
networks like the Internet, some kind of encryption islocation compression is often necessary to reduce the
absolutely critical. Because the internet consists ofsize of the backup file. Since online storage is often
millions of computers connected together by anlimited compression will also allow you to backup more
incredibly amount of wire, satellite and radiodata without running out of storage space. WinBackup
connections, there is no way of knowing who will befeatures a fully multi-threaded encryption and
listening to your datastreams as they are transmittedcompression engine than encrypts and compresses
across the network. The only way to ensure that noyour files in parallel for maximum performance.
one will be able to access your data is to encrypt theBackups can often be reduced by 50% or more using
datastream before it leaves your computer.efficient compression and some text documents and
Sometimes this is done by your browser using secureemails might be reduced by up to 90%. This will allow
connections, but to ensure that the data is alwaysyou to transfer large backups even over a relatively
encrypted your should encrypt the files yourself.slow modem connection and will allow most users to
WinBackup allows you to encrypt backups using up tocreate online backups quickly and easily.
256 bit AES encryption, making it virtually impossible