| Backing up your data to an online backup service is | | | | you would login to your services web control panel |
| only one part of how to keep your data safe in the | | | | and request a file restore. Depending on the service |
| event of a hard drive failure or other major | | | | your request can take some time to process and |
| catastrophe. Restoring your data from your backup is | | | | you will then be able to download your files. Like a |
| the second major part. How you restore your data | | | | client restore if you are restoring all of your files this |
| from your service is an important feature that people | | | | can be time consuming, bandwidth hogging and |
| need to know before signing up for a service. | | | | difficult to download all of your data. |
| The majority of online backup services offer several | | | | If you have lost all of your data and need to restore |
| ways to restore your data: client restore, web | | | | all of it ordering a DVD or hard drive restore is a |
| restore and in some cases a DVD or hard drive | | | | great option. There are not many online backup |
| restore. The more options you have to restore your | | | | services that offer this type of restore, Mozy and |
| files the better. It provides you with more ways to | | | | Backblaze are the only two currently. While it might |
| make sure you recover all of your files. | | | | cost a little extra to order this type of restore the |
| The majority of services offer a client restore | | | | cost is minor compared to losing all of your data. |
| feature. Where you would install the software client | | | | Combined with doing a client or web restore to get |
| on your new computer with your existing user name | | | | your most precious files back immediately and a DVD |
| and password. Once this is done you then have | | | | or hard drive restore you can be up and running again |
| access to the files that are backed up. You can | | | | quickly. This will also not cause any issues with |
| choose which files to restore and the software client | | | | downloading large multiple files, or and bandwidth |
| will download them for you. This is an easy and | | | | issues. |
| convenient way to restore your files, but it does | | | | If you are investigating using online backup for your |
| have some problems. If you are restoring a large | | | | personal or business needs be sure to look into not |
| amount of data your restore can take a very long | | | | only how your files are backed up to the service, but |
| time depending on your Internet connection. If your | | | | how you will get them back. If you are limited to |
| ISP has bandwidth caps you can also run into | | | | only a software client and web restore be ready to |
| problems of going over your bandwidth limits. | | | | spend time downloading your files and the problems |
| Web restores are similar to a client restore, except | | | | that can create for large data restores. |