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I would like your recomendations about some back up company, I`m looking for back up my files on line so my agents and employees can access out of the office. I`m running a real estate company, taxes and acounting services. At this time I have a back up drive but I want to change to this kind of services. thanks

Sounds to me as if you have two situations somewhat confused. When you say you want your employees to "access" your backups, that doesn`t actually make any sense.

The point of a backup is to freeze a version of all your electronic data in such a way that it isn`t subject to damage taking place to the original. So you would back up your data about taxes, records, documents, and so forth in case of a disaster or computer crash.

One reason employees would have access to the backups would be in the event you were hospitalized and couldn`t conduct any business at all.

Regarding online access to applications and data, that`s a whole different concept. In that situation, employees would be *creating* new data from many different locations.

Networking allows creating data at many sources. Backups capture already created data and store it in case of emergencies.

Google Docs may be along the lines of what you`re thinking of .... you can upload files, then share them with other users that you determine.


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For all online backup, file sharing and storage related info, I recommend this website:

http://www.BackupReview.info

keepandshare is another place for what you are looking for.  I also use google docs.

I have just started to use Mozy for online backups, so far I`m impressed with the service.  I also run a couple of local backup jobs every day (had a server disaster last February with an incomplete backup, I never want to live through that again!).

Thanks for all your recommendations, I think I have better idea about the back up and the share docs. I wish all of you all blessings for this coming year.

I like and use Syncplicity, www.syncplicty.com   At $9.99/month, it`s very inexpensive for alot of storage (50GB).  You can tell it exactly what to back up, and the service also permits you to share files with others, and you can pick and choose who sees what file.

I think that might kill 2 birds with one stone for you..:)

Warmly,

Donna



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