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Combining Online and Local Image Backup for Maximum Protection

While online backup provides the ultimate in mission critical data protection, image backup is an excellent complement. A full system image backup can dramatically speed up the process of recovering from serious equipment or disk corruption failure by restoring not just lost data, but also the operating system environment and installed application software. The Dr.Backup... Read More

Powerful New Features in Dr.Backup for 2017

The Dr.Backup online backup service has always been great. But new software feature enhancements for 2017 raise the bar even higher. Nearly 2 years in development, version 11.16 is now available. We are proud to be one of the few national service providers that can offer fully managed & secure online backup AND complementary local... Read More

A New Look for the Dr.Backup Website

Welcome to the new Dr.Backup website. It’s been a long time coming, but the development of our new and improved website is finally complete. (Well, at least Phase I is complete!) Since 2001, we’ve revised, updated and cajoled our original homepage to meet the needs of our customers and business partners. But these days, it... Read More

Let the Bad Guys Win? (or use S.M.A.R.T. Online Backups)

These days, it’s very common for “bad guys” to use clever social engineering techniques to trick even the most careful worker into voluntarily starting a malware infection. A modern computer virus (sometimes referred to as “malware”) is software that when executed on your PC provides unauthorized access to your private data — or can even corrupt... Read More

Do Self-Managed Backups Make Sense?

With quite a few web-based companies offering cheap online storage, you might be tempted to consider building (and self-managing) your own online backups. Even if you did have the in-house expertise to do this, you might want to reconsider. The economics of using Dr.Backup to professionally manage your backups are quite compelling. Consider that the... Read More

The Online Backup Service for a Smart Business

These days, everybody wants to make sure that they are managing their expenses – and that the services they do purchase represent a good value for their business. We get it! This is the exact reason that Dr.Backup bundles into our subscription packages all the software, online disk storage AND on-going technical support needed to... Read More

Dr.Backup Annual Crab Feast v.2015

The 2015 Dr.Backup annual crab feast was held at Floyd’s Crossroads Pub in Dayton, Maryland. Once again, our sharp crew assembled together for food, fun and to bid the summer farewell. This year’s theme was a celebration of the great outdoors. The parking lot was buzzing as Suzie and John arrived in their convertible Porsche... Read More

Managed Backup Service is LESS EXPENSIVE than Do-it-yourself

Given the world we now live in, the need for RELIABLE offsite backup of mission critical business information is indisputable – for all businesses! So what’s the most cost-effective way for a small business to reliably backup their data? Although it may at first sound counter intuitive, a managed backup service (the type delivered by... Read More

Building a Better Online Backup Service

Back in 2001, Dr.Backup deployed its first generation backup storage server. A series of 12 disks were inserted in a chassis and arranged into an array with fault tolerant technology called Raid-5. Each disk had approximately 146 GB of unformatted storage capacity. Ten of these disks actually held live customer data. One disk held Raid... Read More