ElephantDrive for Small Business online backup service is my choice for my client today because the enterprise package has the versatility and features we are looking for.
ElephantDrive stores data at Amazon web services facilities and is HIPAA compliant.
During the free trial period I had a number of questions and actually encountered a couple little bugs in the software – just from a user interface standpoint.
Support was the most responsive of any online backup service I have tried out. The normal support technician even arranged a join.me session with a senior tech in order to work in some added functionality that we wanted.
With ElephantDrive we are scheduling nightly backups but for all but the largest files we will also have 1 minute updates. Since ElephantDrive supports multiple versions of a file, this protects users from intra-day deleting or messing up of a data file.
Archiving is also an important feature for this small business. Archiving allows them to store data on ElephantDrive’s servers that are no longer stored on the company servers. Not all online backup services support that.
Guaranteed geographic redundancy of the data is also an important feature, especially in light of all the natural disasters occurring around the globe recently.
ElephantDrive is not just for small business, they have plans that fit individuals and even families. There is a free 2GB account also. Try ElephantDrive for free for 15 days.
Fall 2012 Update: We now recommend Mozy Pro instead.
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