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Spare Backup Bid to Sell Monthly Backup Service in a Box
- By ADT Staff
- August 23, 2005
Spare Backup began shipping a monthly backup service in a box this week. It
is aimed at small-to-medium businesses and home workers. The service is packaged
as a product for retail store shelves. The online service provides backup for
about 50 cents per day, although the company says retail pricing may be lower
if retailers decide to offer discounts. The company is also packaging a software-only
version, priced at MSRP $49.99, intended to provide backup data the customer
decides to store locally on his or her PC.
It’s the first time any PC backup service has ever been sold off the
shelf, the company says. Spare Backup is a Web-based backup service that executes
automatic backups without user involvement. The service selects, secures and
stores digital files for the user at regular times or frequencies set by the
user.
Backup users enjoy the secondary benefit of being able to access their files
anywhere, anytime, from any computer, the company says. Security is ensured
through three-factor authentication—user name, password, plus a unique, randomly
generated code number called a Spare Key. The Spare Key, a wallet-sized card
mailed to the user following registration, ensures that no one besides the user—not
even Spare Backup—will ever have all three forms of ID necessary to access
the account holder's files.
For more information, visit Spare Backup.