• An employee working from home who needs to back up important company data
• A roaming employee who needs to back up information gathered on the road
• When your remote site backs up to head office
• When you want to back up critical data directly to a data center
• You've just bought cloud storage instead of purchasing hardware

Create your own Rsync host

Creating an Rsync host is easy. Simply set up Rsync on a Windows or Linux machine or a supported NAS device.

Use a cloud storage or remote storage provider

If your cloud storage provider supports Rsync then you can use this as a destination for your backups. Due to the popularity of Amazon's S3 storage, BackupAssist even has an S3 Rsync destination option that contains configuration fields specifically for Amazon S3.

• Encrypt data at your backup destination
• Over-the-wire encryption with Rsync over SSH
• Compression of all data packets sent across the internet
• Bandwidth throttling
• Automatic retries on a network drop out
• Exclude file types (e.g. *.mp3) to save space

Easy to use backups and restores

Backups made easy

When you use File Protection to create an Rsync backup, the wizard steps you through the process of selecting the data to back up, the destination and the backup schedule that you want to use. You can even set up email notifications using a managed recipients list.

Restores made easy

The BackupAssist Restore Console makes the restore process easy. Multiple backups can be searched and single backups can be browsed, all in the same intuitive interface. Select the data you want to restore and the restore destination, and let BackupAssist do the rest.

For information on getting the most out of Rsync visit our Video Presentations page.