Get to your files anywhere, any time

With the HP Upline service, your precious memories, important household files, favorite music, and more are all just an Internet connection away. That puts your whole digital world right at your fingertips on the go. It also means friends and family near and far can seeyour files in just a few simple steps. And if you ever have a problem with your PC, there’s nothing to worryabout—Upline has your files backed up so you can get them all back once your PC is working again. Upline couldn’t be easier. When you subscribe to the service, it searches your computer for all your importantfiles—you tell Upline what you want to include. Then it copies your files onto HP’s secure Upline servers, using the most advanced security technology to keep unwanted eyes off your information while it’s transmitted and once it’s stored. Best of all, your information is now in a place where you can access, share, and publish your files from any Internet connected PC any time

Online Backup

All user-selected files and directories are automatically and continuously backed up to the online storage site. In most cases, the process runs in the background with no user intervention required.
All backups are stored and transmitted using the latest stripping, compression and encryption technologies.

Remote Access

Access your account from any Internet-enabled PC using your secured login and password.
Find, share, publish and restore any of your files stored online.

File Sharing

Share files of any size with coworkers and customers, family and friends, anyone you choose using your secured login and password. Recipients receive a link contained in an email message to download the file. You have the option to password-protect your shared files and share them for a limited time – from one day to six months. By default, any changes to the master file are immediately shared with your recipients, ensuring that everyone has the latest version.

File Publishing

Publish files once and generate a URL you can use to place published content on the Internet.By default, all published files are kept up to date when you upload once to HP Upline.

Search

Add searchable keywords and definitions to your files to make finding locating them a breeze, or quickly find files based on standard attributes such as file type or creation date.

Local Backup

Easily create a local backup to a CD, DVD, NAS or USB drive or to a second partition on your hard drive. Set up an automatic reminder to create your local backup.

Dashboard (Pro Accounts)

Set up, control, manage and administer backups for your family or group.Keep track of how your family or group is using Upline.

SOS Universal Backup™ with LiveProtect. Backup any data, any time, to any destination

SOS gives you the flexibility and power to create a backup that meet your needs. Backup your outlook daily up to 6 global datacenters. Backup your entire computer to a USB drive nightly or backup My Documents to your Ipod each hour or engage LiveProtectTM to have SOS watch your files and provide continuous real-time data protection. You save it – we back it up offsite invisibly and automatically, keeping an unlimited version history that lets you roll-back to any point in time. SOS provides Big-Business IT best-practice for the little guy – true multi-destination, multi-schedule backup that can be adapted to meet your needs but at consumer prices. SOS is software as a service billed with a low monthly subscription. A basic annual subscription costs less than most stand-alone backup software packages – let alone a tape-drive or external hard-drive.

SOS Online Backup Features

Local Backup

Online backup is invaluable but simply cannot protect your entire computer. Using SOS local backup system, you can backup your entire computer, open/locked and operating system files included to any local medium whether it is an external USB drive, a local network location, a USB stick or an IPod.

Physical Media Upload

Chances are you have at least 20 to 30 GB of data to backup. Over the wire, that can literally take weeks. SOS exclusive PMU technology lets you “seed” your backup by sending your encrypted data on a DVD. Alternatively we can send you a disk overnight and you can copy your backup to that disk. After that, just the 1’s and 0’s that change will be backed up, meaning your daily backup takes just minutes.

Unlimited Number of Computers

Backup as many computers as you like using one account. Over 60% of households have more than one computer and SOS allows you to backup and recover from all of your machines. Backup your home, office and laptop computers all on one account for easy access to ALL your files from anywhere.

Unlimited Versions & Powerful Recovery

Keep an unlimited version history of all your files – roll back your books to last years tax records if you wish.
Use our time machine feature to go back to the date you want to restore your backup as of and recover that snapshot of files & versions.

Fully Flexible Scheduling

Monthly, weekly, daily, hourly or instant backup.

LiveProtect

Engage SOS LiveProtectTM to have SOS back up files as soon as a change is detected.

Intelligent File Filters

Tell SOS Online Backup to watch your My Documents folder but to ignore all *.mp3’s and *.avi’s. Alternatively tell SOS to only protect *.doc, and *.xls. Either use our pre-sets or set your own inclusion/exclusion mask.

Enterprise Compression & Transfer Systems

The SOS compression system only backs up changed files and then only the changed 1’s and 0’s are transferred. On a 500 MB database (MYOB/Intuit/Turbo Tax) the daily transfer can be as small as 5 KB. Our transfer system is enterprise grade, meaning that large file transfers are resumed at the KB of interruption, and does not start at the beginning like most other online backup systems.

Global Roaming Access to Your Files

Because your data is being backed up daily to the SOS Backup Server Grid - you can access your data anywhere in the world using just a web-browser. Never be without that critical file again.One-Click File & Folder Sharing From inside the Online Recovery Interface you can share your files with anyone with an email address. Never have a large attachment bounce again. Just share your already backed-up data with your friends and colleagues. Or if you are a home user – simply share photos or videos.

Archiving

Unlike other online backup systems, we do not delete the file from your backup just because you delete the file from your computer. Over 80% of data loss occurs due to accidental deletion. Rest assured, we keep every version of every file forever, until you tell us to remove it.

Introduction to IDrive

IDrive is a reliable online backup and restore application. It safeguards your critical data in case of system crash, by automatically backing it up. Customization options include the provision to modify the data set selected for backup, schedules, reporting options and more. Further, the graphical interface makes it easy to navigate through the application. Your data is encrypted on transmission and storage, ensuring its security. The other key features include data compression during file transfer that ensures quick backups, incremental backups that economize the bandwidth usage, Versioning where previous backed up copies of each file are maintained for restore to local machine, and Open and Mapped drive backup, among others. Data stored on the IDrive server is not deleted, unless you issue explicit instructions to do so.

This application is ideal for individuals and small businesses with large backup needs.

IDrive Features

IDrive has the following features:

Unicode Compliant

Supports character sets of all languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Italian and Portuguese.

File Versioning

You can retrieve any of the previous 30 versions of a file (that was backed up to your account) to your local machine.

Intuitive user interface

The Microsoft Windows Explorer like interface makes it easy for you to navigate through the application.

Ease-of-use

You can drag-n-drop to restore files at the desired location, on the local machine.

Efficient Backups

Effective utilization of your Internet bandwidth as the data files are compressed during transmission. Further, only the modified portions of your files are backed up, resulting in quick backups.

Mapped Drive Support

Your mapped drives are backed up - even when your computer is in the ‘Log-Off’ state.

Effective Bandwidth Usage

You can adjust the Internet bandwidth usage for the IDrive application so that other web-based applications can also run smoothly.

Automated Backups

You can schedule the backup of data as per your convenience and forget it. It is backed up automatically at the scheduled time.

Continuous Data Protection

The application automatically recognizes the modified parts of files/ folders and backs them up in real time, thus offering you hands-free backup of data.

True Archiving / Sync

Data is not removed from your account until you manually delete it or run sync to match your desktop data to your account. You control your backup data.

Open file backup

The application performs reliable backups of your open/locked files like Outlook files (.pst), QuickBooks, MS-Excel and so on.

Compatibility

The IDrive application works on most Windows Operating Systems including Windows, Vista and Mac.

Retrieve data from any location

You can login via any web browser to your account and access backed up data, view log reports and restore data to your local machine.

Web-based Search

You can locate files/folders backed up to your account, from anywhere, through the web.

Web based Backup set management

<You can edit your default Backup set, schedule time/frequency and view logs, from the web.

View Logs

You can view the log files of backups, restores, scheduled backups, and details of files / folders deleted from your account from any computer, using any standard browser.

Restore data to any local machine

You can restore data to any local computer, without installing the application on your machine

Manage Multiple Accounts

You can create multiple accounts using the web interface and group them for easy management.

Automatic power-off after the scheduled backup

Selecting this option will automatically shut down your computer on completion of the scheduled backup.

Start missed schedule backup

If your computer is shut down for more than 30 minutes from scheduled time, the scheduled backup resumes at the next frequency, by default. Selecting this option will start the missed scheduled backup immediately, once the computer is turned on.

Application Integrity

Data backed up using IDrive can only be accessed and restored only with the application. This preserves the integrity and security of your data.

Proxy/firewall friendliness

Advanced settings help you to connect to IDrive servers via proxy servers and enable them to easily backup data.

Alert in case of scheduled backup fails

You will receive a desktop alert in case your backup has not taken place.

Security Features

IDrive ensures that you alone can access your data.

Encryption

All your data is secured using 128-bit SSL encryption during transmission and 256-bit AES encryption on storage. IDrive enforces a ‘user-defined encryption key’ that is known only to you. Not even IDrive personnel have access to it, thereby making your data secure. However, if you opt for the default encryption, the application provides the key, without the need for you to remember the same. All your data resides on raid-protected devices for additional protection and for fast recovery in case of hardware/software failures.

Physical Security

The IDrive application is hosted at world-class Internet data centers at California, which provide the physical environment necessary to keep the servers up and running 24X7. These world-class facilities are custom designed with raised floors, HVAC temperature control systems with separate cooling zones and seismically braced racks. They offer the widest range of physical security features, including state-of-the-art smoke detection and fire suppression systems, motion sensors, and round-the-clock secured access, as well as video camera surveillance and security breach alarms.

Network Security

We have a periodic third party review of our network infrastructure to check for known application and service vulnerabilities.

Backups of backups

User data resides on raid protected industry leading storage devices with multiple levels of redundancy. In addition, data is periodically backed up onto another set of devices for additional security.