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I Backup Professional provides a secure, efficient , reliable, cost effect ive and easy t o use I nt ernet based backup solut ion wit h addit ional em phasis on security and dat a retention. I Backup Professional enforces 128 bit encrypt ion on st orage in addit ion t o 128 bit SSL encrypt ion during t ransm ission wit h a user defined key known only t o t he user and not st ored on I Backup servers. Dat a ret ent ion is upt o 30 versions. Assum ing a daily backup schedule, t his would allow ret rieval of dat a for upt o a m ont h back in t im e or longer. Higher Securit y and higher ret ent ion has now been m ade possible by an innovat ive 'Pat ent Pending' t echnology developed by I Backup.
IBackup Professional suite of products· is targeted towards enterprise users-such as Healthcare and financial service companies who have stringent data security requirements such as HIPAA compliance and Individual users who need a high performance, versioning capable, secure yet simple offsite backup solution to protect their home or work computers. IBackup Professional s objective is to complement the Enterprises· backup needs (where the need of the hour is to reduce downtime for backups) with efficient and user-friendly backup solutions. The product also helps enterprises conserve and use bandwidth efficiently. All this is done without compromising on a very important factor-backup performance.
Intuitive User Interface
IBackup Professional offers very advanced and powerful features, yet has a very simple and intuitive and user-friendly interface. The user interface is as simple as selecting files from your computer and doing an interactive or scheduled backup of the scheduled files. The previously selected files are remembered during subsequent backup sessions.
Fast and efficient Backups
IBackup Professional efficiently uses your Internet bandwidth by compressing data files during transmission. Incremental backups are done by transferring only modified portions of a file that was previously backed up resulting in faster incremental backups.
File Versioning
Each backup creates a new backup set identified by the backup date and time. Users can restore up to 30 prior versions including the most recent version of their data files. Users can also restore latest versions of all their files or versions of files as of a specific backup set.
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Security
The data files backed up using IBackup are encrypted on transmission using 128-bit SSL and the data files are stored by default encrypted using 128-bit RC4 and automatically decrypted during restores. The encryption is done based on a user defined key, so the data stored on IBackup Professional servers cannot be decrypted by anybody other than you.
Incremental Backups
During an incremental backup, IBackup Professional only backs up the changed or modified portions of the file resulting in a less time consumption for file backups.
Low resource consumption
When IBackup Professional client scheduler is performing backups or when IBackup Professional is performing interactive backups, you can continue to do your other tasks like before without worrying about IBackup Professional backups affecting your system's performance.
Backup data image as of the time of backup
IBackup Professional maintains the backup data image as of the time of backup that allows for accurate restore 'as of' the backup set.
Proxy Friendliness
Advanced settings enable users to setup connections via proxy servers to be able to connect to IBackup Professional servers and perform backups.
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IBackup Professional is committed to protecting your valuable data residing on its servers. In addition to the password and registration technology we've built into IBackup Professional, we use a "defense-in-depth" strategy to protect your data, and we follow industry standard best practices in carrying out this strategy. The servers on which IBackup Professional accounts' reside are continuously monitored for attempted network attacks on a 24 x 7 basis using sophisticated software tools. IBackup Professional enforces a user-defined key that is known only to the user. Not even IBackup Professional personnel have access to this user-defined key thereby making the information highly secure to prevent any kind of encroachment. While the user data resides on raid-protected devices, user data is asynchronously mirrored to another set of raid devices for additional protection and for fast recovery in case of hardware/software failures. Downloadable Applications: IBackup Professional client, the client interface of the IBackup Professional service, has 128bit SSL encryption (for all data that is transmitted) enabled by default. IBackup Professional can also be used to schedule the backups using its built-in scheduler application which also has 128 bit SSL encryption enabled by default. IBackup Professional client uses the Microsoft CryptoAPI for implementing Encryption of files on storage based on a user supplied key (entered during first-time installation of the product), and encrypts files during backup using the industry standard RC4 128-bit encryption based on the platforms it is used on. This means that when your data resides on IBackup Professional servers, it is in encrypted form and our personnel cannot access this data. In addition to above, the client application takes care to prevent the concurrent access of same account from multiple machines thereby preserving data integrity. The IBackup Professional application is hosted at the SAVVIS Internet Data Centers in Irvine, CA and El Segundo, CA. The Data Centers provides the physical environment necessary to keep the servers up and running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. These world-class facilities are custom designed with raised floors, HVAC temperature control systems with separate cooling zones, and seismically braced racks. They offer the widest range of physical security features, including state-of-the-art smoke detection and fire suppression systems, motion sensors, and 24x7 secured access, as well as video camera surveillance and security breach alarms.
Each IBackup Professional online storage and online backup accounts files are rigorously segregated; there is no intermingling of one account's files with any others on the servers used to host the data.
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HIPAA compliance of IBackup Professional The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), was the result of efforts by the Clinton Administration and congressional healthcare reform proponents to reform healthcare. The goals and objectives of this legislation are to streamline industry inefficiencies, reduce paperwork, make it easier to detect and prosecute fraud and abuse and enable workers of all professions to change jobs, even if they (or family members) had preexisting medical conditions.
IBackup Professional can help you achieve your goal for an HIPAA compliant Data Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution.
HIPAA act states that any health care provider, clearinghouse, or health care plan that electronically maintains or transmits health information pertaining to an individual MUST have contingency plans that include backup, recovery, and an emergency mode plan. Online backup is important in this contingency plans.
The data is compressed and encrypted before sending it to IBackup data center's by IBackup Professional software. The software offers secure data backups. The data center architecture is also highly secure.
The encryption is done based on a user defined key, so the data stored on IBackup Professional servers cannot be decrypted by anybody other than the user. The data is stored in compressed and encrypted form in the servers and IBackup Professional personal have no access to decrypted user data.
IBackup Professional Software is adequate to help companies comply with the Final Security Rule. IBackup Professional also complies with the Privacy section, even though Online backup Providers are not "Covered Entities" as defined by the current rules, and thus are not required to comply with it.
In addition, IBackup Professional can help customers comply with other provisions of the rules as part of a larger data protection and disaster recovery plan but at present there is no "HIPAA Compliance" certification for backup software.
Contact IBackup Professional Sales Department (
[email protected]) for more information on how we can help you comply with the HIPAA contingency plan requirements.
The above information is not a legally authoritative statement related to HIPAA. It is only to serve as a guideline. For additional information, please see http://www.hipaadvisory.com/action/faqs/Road to Compliance.htm.
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Signing up for a free trial in IBackup Professional
Please visit this link: https://www.ibackup.com/ibprof/signup.htm. Once, you enter the email id, an email will be sent out to the email id you specify, from
[email protected] with details on how to activate your 30-day free trial. After following the instructions and activating your account, you may download the IBackup Professional client and try the product free for 30 days. Key items to note in usage of the IBackup Professional product:
Data stored in the free trial
You can store to a maximum of 4 GB of data on your trial account. The trial software allows you to try all the features of IBackup professional. Encryption of data (on transmission) in IBackup Professional
All data transferred between the IBackup Professional client and server is encrypted using 128-bit SSL (Secure Socket Layer) technology, the industry standard encryption for data transmission.
Encryption of data (on storage) in IBackup Professional
All data stored on IBackup Professional servers is encrypted using a secure key mechanism with a user supplied password known only to the end user. This uses industry standard RC4 128-bit encryption on storage Microsoft Crypto API algorithms ideally suited for higher security needs of Financial, Healthcare and Government organizations. WARNING: Please note that we DO NOT store the user-supplied password anywhere on IBackup Professional servers and therefore it is highly recommended that users· memorize the password, and also take a hard copy of the user-supplied password and archive it in a safe location. Without this encryption password, users will not be able to retrieve data.
Compression of data in IBackup Professional
IBackup Professional uses superior levels of compression achieved using the industry standard Zlib 1.2.1.
Incremental backups/speed of backups IBackup Professional performs superior patching of files that ensures that only modified blocks of data on a user s file are transferred on the network thereby conserving bandwidth and minimizing network load while backing up from multiple machines to the IBackup Professional server. The inherent technology of IBackup Professional enables the execution of all backups at very high efficiencies and speed.
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Data Integrity
We value user s data that resides on IBackup Professional servers and take utmost care to maintain data integrity. Each file goes through an extensive set of 128-bit MD5 checksum comparisons to ensure that your data is safe. In addition to this, we also do not have access to your data that remains encrypted on IBackup Professional servers using user supplied encryption password. Multiple logins of IBackup Professional under the same username are not recommended and the client product will track this operation and warn users about the possibility of data corruption if multiple logins are carried out for the same user account.
Versioning of files in IBackup Professional
IBackup Professional provides for a concept called file versioning wherein each backup creates a new backup set identified by the backup date and time. Users can restore up to 30 prior versions including the most recent version of their data files. Users can also restore latest versions of all their files or versions of files as of a specific backup set.
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Used space calculated in IBackup Professional IBackup Professional products' use advanced technologies to maintain data on the storage servers. When we calculate the used space (of user's backed up data) as a percentage of user's quota on IBackup Professional storage servers, it has to be emphasized that we do not charge users for the previous file versions of the same file they have already backed up onto their storage space. In other words, that storage comes free for any previous versions of the same files. IBackup Professional service charges users only for the latest version of the backed up files existing in the user's account though he is free to retrieve any of his most recent 30 file versions of a single file. Let us take an example to help eliminate any confusion with respect to this issue: Suppose you have a 100 MB file (fileA) that gets backed up. So, your used space/quota would indicate that you have used up 100 MB of 4 GB space. That would be the first version of the fileA on IBackup Professional server. Now, assume that you backup fileA incrementally 4 times. So, in all, you have 5 versions of fileA we have stored on all those 5 versions of fileA on IBackup Professional storage servers. Let us take the scenario of how your file size changes prior to each incremental backup of fileA: Hypothetical scenario: FileA backup count
fileA file size
1st backup
100 MB
2nd backup (incremental)
200 MB (you have modified fileA and added 100 MB of contents to fileA) 100 MB (you have modified fileA and removed 100 MB of contents to fileA) 700 MB (you have modified fileA and added 600 MB of contents to fileA) 800 MB (you have modified fileA and added 100 MB of contents to fileA)
3rd backup (incremental) 4th backup (incremental) 5th backup (incremental)
Used space as indicated on your IBackup Professional client 100 MB out of 4 GB (assuming your quota limit is 4 GB) 200 MB out of 4 GB (assuming your quota limit is 4 GB) 100 MB out of 4 GB (assuming your quota limit is 4 GB) 700 MB out of 4 GB (assuming your quota limit is 4 GB) 800 MB out of 4 GB (assuming your quota limit is 4 GB)
Please note that we DO NOT charge you for your fileA versions from the 1st backup to the 4th backup though you can retrieve any of those versions if you may like to do so. In other words, for above case, you can save on storage space charges of almost 1100 MB at the end of your 5th backup. We only charge you for the backup you make for the latest version of your file. Above scenario is purely hypothetical and has been illustrated to give you an idea of how much storage space users can conserve by using IBackup Professional. If you still have any issues-backup/storage using IBackup Professional related queries, feel free to write to our Professional service department at:
[email protected] and we will get back to you.
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