Ivor Newman, Vice President of Operations

Mr. Newman has over 19 years of program management and product marketing experience. Prior to joining Spare Backup, Mr. Newman was the Worldwide cross line of business (X-Lob) Program Manager for Dell Inc. where he was responsible for the successful creation and implementation of global services programs. Mr. Newman joined Dell in 1999 and was intimately involved with the global services division. Prior to working for Dell, Mr. Newman was the District Director for a professional services corporation in New York City.

Why Online Backup?

Backing up data is agreed to be a necessary practice by all. There is no dispute about the significant risks posed by data loss to individuals and organizations. People can lose their photos, their music, their files and their precious memories. Organizations stand to lose their entire business in the case of catastrophic data loss.

Good Backup:

A local backup to an external hard drive at home or in the office, provides some measure of security, and hope of recovery.

Local backups to external drives require the user to remember to commit to the practice of backing up regularly. Some people are rigorous about their backup routine and make it a point to do this once a day. But even with all of this effort, if failure occurs in the late hours of the workday, a whole day's work can be lost completely. Not only that, but if theft, fire, flood or any other disaster occurs, the computers and the external drives can be wiped out all at once, leaving your data irretrievable.

Better Backup:

A backup to tape, which is then transported offsite and stored nearby provides greater security still.

Backup to tape, stored offsite, also requires the user to remember to backup. Then, the tapes are offsite, which means that you end up paying for a service where the delay to retrieve your tape and restore your data can cost valuable time and as they say, "time is money". Not only that, but the tape storage facility is often nearby. So, a natural disaster can wipe out both your local data source and your remote data storage all in one day.

The Best Backup:

Online backup provides the ultimate security, reliability and ease of use.

The only option that truly considers ease of use, and fully eliminates the worry of complete catastrophic data loss is Online Backup. Online Backup is not just offsite, it's remote. No matter what befalls your home town, your data will be safe and accessible. Better still, Online Backup with Spare Backup does not require you to remember to backup. There is no added step for you. You simply install the software and let it do the job of keeping your data safe. And when the need arises to restore lost files - that's as easy as the click of a button too!

Should the worst occur; customers who use online backup enjoy peace of mind, knowing that their data is always ready to be recovered with a few simple steps.

Why Backup?

Two words: Data Loss.

Data loss can be very costly, to both the consumer and particularly for organizations in the small and medium business (SMB) market where the difference between survival and closure can rest on the ability to recover from a disaster. At the very least, critical data loss will have a personal effect on consumers and a financial impact on companies of all sizes.

There are many ways you can unintentionally lose information on a computer; a child playing the keyboard like a piano, a power surge, fires, floods or any natural disaster. Sometimes equipment just fails. How important is your data to you? You can respond to this question with words, but the steps you take to protect your data are the real answer. Most PC users are pretty casual about data protection—they are comfortable with the stability of applications, operating systems, and the PC hardware itself, so they think their data is safe. Hey, denial is not just a river in Egypt. Thinking that data loss only happens to other people is holding on to a false sense of security. Anyone could experience data loss, and statistically speaking, the chances are good that you will. Why play the odds?

The key to successful disaster recovery and data protection is regular backups. Not only is backup itself vital, but how you backup and where the data is stored must be considered.

Cery Perle, CEO

Mr. Perle has extensive experience starting, leading and growing companies, including CLP Industries. Mr. Perle's financial management and capital management experience stems from his tenure as President & CEO of a national, NASD-registered company. After losing his own files and trying complicated store-bought products to recover lost data, Mr. Perle founded Spare Backup with the objective of providing a simple solution. He set out to provide the same care his clients had received with their finances but extended it to their data.

What do you consider irreplaceable data?

By Aaron Rodberg (Technical Research Analyst)

Working for Spare Backup I have heard lots of horror stories about lost data. I have seen many happy customers ecstatic to have the ability to restore their precious files when they've been lost or destroyed.

I work full time and have a busy home life with three kids as well. Data is an issue for me at work and at home. Data must travel between my home and office. Like most people in my position I use a laptop, so I can take work home with me and finish projects while I'm at home with my kids. At any time my laptop is susceptible to theft, damage or even failed hardware, or god forbid - the kids spill apple juice all over the thing!

Of course I use Spare Backup to ensure that my data is always recoverable, but I found myself thinking about the question - What is on my computer that I really could not go without?

I have some music I downloaded and paid for, I sure would hate to have to buy that song again. But I guess that is a viable option. My work, i.e., documents, presentations, email, all backed up in the office and online, and I would sure hate to lose any of it but can it be redone, I guess if it had to be.

Then it occurred to me, MY PICTURES. I have 10 GB of pictures all dating back to when my 1st child was born 8 years ago. We are talking about thousands of irreplaceable photographs capturing moments that we can't go back and live again! There is only one first birthday, only one first ballet recital, only one perfect shot of my daughter with her finger deep in her nose to show the high school boyfriends. This to me would be “catastrophic loss of data!”

There is nothing in the world that can be done to ever get those pictures and memories back. It would be a heart breaking loss. That’s why I use a total solution for this irreplaceable data, so not only do I backup my pictures online but I make an offline backup to DVD every month or so using Spare Backup.

A backup of your backup...

To ensure that your data is protected; your backups are stored at multiple “Tier 3 Data Centers” in different locations all over the country. If you're not a techie - just know that this fact should make you feel truly secure!

Get ready for the full techie explanation:

The term “Tier 3” refers to a Data Center that meets the standards that are
defined in TIA-942 (Data Center Standards Overview http://www.adc.com/Library/Literature/102264AE.pdf).
This includes items like multiple active power and cooling distribution
paths,redundant components, UPS and generator, cable and hardware layout,
all for the purpose of reducing downtime in the event of a disruption. In
comparison to a Tier 1 or 2 Data Centers, the Tier 3 Data Center is superior
as the Tier 1 and 2 do not meet the above requirements. Tier 3 data centers
are where banks store financial data due to such high standards. Spare
products servers are also compliant with N+1 electrical power redundancy
specifications. N+1 requires 2 power sources for each archive server and a
72 hour emergency generator to provide electricity in case of a catastrophic
loss of power.

This means there is always a backup of your backup!

Spare Backup - Online Solution that Does It All!

While other solutions promise automatic backups after the user has selected files for backup, Spare Backup's advanced technology finds files automatically. New files, as well as revisions, from virtually every application and folder are selected, saving time and ensuring that important files aren't missed.

Spare Backup was designed to be easy to use and to allow you the freedom to never have to worry about your backup again. Once Spare Backup is installed, backups are automatic, you don't even have to select files for backup, we'll do it for you.

Of course Spare Backup is also powerful and gives you choices to meet individual preferences. Best of all, Spare is meticulously programmed to find and save all the code necessary to make backups match their originals exactly, with all the personality settings users have finely-tuned.

We just didn't feel the need to make it complicated.

Some Features of Spare Backup Software:

• Automatic file selection, including data settings and personalities


• Auto-recognition and auto-backup of new files


• Delta backups of revised files


• Up to 5 versions of saved documents


• Free Web, email and phone support


• Data encryption using 256 bit cipher with a non-algorithmic key


• Microsoft Vista Logo Certified


• EAR, ITAR-COCOM Export License


• Simple Easy User Interfaces


• One-Click Backup


• Intelligent File Selection


• Automatic (unattended) Backup


• Client & Web Based File Access


• Enhanced Security Backup/Restore


• Local Backup (CD/DVD/HD)


• 24x7 Multi-lingual Telephone Support With Live Chat


• Competitive Industry Pricing