Within minutes, you are backing up files automatically on a schedule of your choice. After the initial backup, subsequent backups take mere minutes to complete because only new or modified files are uploaded.

With our service, data backups are completely automatic. We can also manually initiate a backup at any time. Once the software is installed, we will create a backup set. The backup set is the list of files that you want to backup along with the schedule of when you want the backups to occur.

To offer even more power for managing the data backup sets, we have the option of including or excluding specific folders or even excluding specific types of files.

Once we finish selecting what to backup, the backup software will calculate how much data has been chosen. Setting up your secure managed online data backup service schedule will be based on standards and practices that may be enforced by current compliancy law. If not affected by law you can choose to not run backups on certain days. Once your files are backed up, CDS checks them to ensure 100% health of each one so they’re ready to restore when you need them.

EFFORTLESS SEEDING

Seeding is intended for your initial backup if you have a large amount of data. Initial backups can take several weeks to complete if you have 50 gigabytes or more of data. To speed things up, we offer to seed your initial backup at no additional cost to you. This is a simple and hassle free process. When the time comes to restore your data we will use our safety net plan which includes the best practice possible for you to receive your data expeditiously.

How does this process work?

1. We ship a USB drive within one business day of reviewing your amount of data.

2. You receive the USB drive and call us to walk through the simple set-up. The data is compressed and encrypted to the drive to meet compliancy law.

3. You send the drive back free of charge (with shipping label provided).

4. We copy your backup archive to our two data centers.

5. You are now backing up with CDS.