This forum thread needs a solution. Kudos 0. Labels: Backup , Online Backup. I have the same question 1 Stats. SoulAsylum Guru Norton Fighter Reg: Mar John Dora Newbie 1. Back them up in the cloud to mitigate the risk of catastrophic loss to your physical computer.
Hard Drive Fail Your computer is just a machine, and sometimes they fail. Accidental Deletion It could only take one wrong press of a button to lose an important file, folder, or more.
Natural Disaster A flood, home fire, or other disaster could take away important data and memories. Theft A thief in your home could walk away with a big chunk of your life, all with a simple grab of your computer. Ransomware A cyber thief can hold your data for ransom. How much would you be willing to pay to get it back? Malware Cybercriminals can find ways to access your computer like a Remote Access Trojan and do a lot of damage. Professional Documents Resume, copies of projects competed, documents published.
Financial Documents Tax returns, investment portfolio, bank statements. School Work College papers, group projects, study materials.
Organization Contacts, calendar, to-do lists. Photos Family, friends, vacations, hobbies, projects. Don't risk losing your important files to loss or theft of your PC, hard drive failure or ransomware. Automatically back up your photos, financial files and other important documents of your choice on your Windows PC with the Cloud Backup feature in Norton Ready to backup your PC? You can backup data to a physical hard drive separate from your computer or device, or you can back it up online with cloud storage.
You can typically run a backup manually as needed, or schedule automatic backups to your online cloud storage. Cloud storage providers store this data, like your sensitive documents, work materials or photos on their servers that they manage and secure.
The storage provider is responsible for keeping the servers safe and running so that you can access your backed-up data whenever you need. The only problem is that these drives can be lost, stolen, or fail just like a regular computer. This will depend on the amount of data that you need to back up and the connection rate that you have with your internet. Many people set up their backups to take place at night while they sleep. Should you find that you have a file that you no longer want to keep, simply remove it from your cloud storage and it will be gone.
Keep in mind, once it is deleted from cloud storage, you run the risk of losing that file permanently. LifeLock identity theft protection is not available in all countries. All rights reserved. Firefox is a trademark of Mozilla Foundation.
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The Android robot is reproduced or modified from work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. What is Cloud Backup? External hard drive or online backup? What is storage in the cloud? How does backup help in case of ransomware? Problem Theft, loss or damage beyond repair: Regardless of what happened to your laptop, the important thing is what was on it.
A new laptop may be costly, but not as costly as losing proprietary information. Solution Your professional documents are too valuable to risk losing. Norton retains previous file versions for 90 days in case you want to rollback an unwanted change or file corruption.
Files deleted from your computer are retained by Norton Online Backup in the cloud until you deleted them there true archiving.
A couple of important missing features include block-level backups and private encryption, both of which are commonplace among the backup competition. Image-based backup, less common, is another miss. Check out our best image-based backup roundup for some ideas there. The average consumer simply has far more data to backup than 25GB. For the same cost, you can get a year of unlimited backup from Backblaze read our Backblaze review.
Norton Online Backup does let you protect up to five computers with a single subscription. Norton Online Backup rather annoyingly splits its processes between a flimsy desktop client and a clumsy browser interface. For example, you can add file types for automatic backup through the browser interface. The desktop client itself is, unfortunately, very barebones.
It feels half-baked, like the development team at Norton decided to abandon the project halfway through. The browser interface likewise feels underdeveloped. It took us some time to figure out how it all worked, which was exasperated by unresponsiveness and the fact that very often doing something on the browser causes something on your desktop to open to complete an action, but does nothing to draw your attention to that fact.
It would be better to follow the approach most other online backup services have adopted, which is to let you manage most or all of the backup process through a complete desktop client interface. Installing the client creates a taskbar icon that you can right-click on to reveal a menu of options. Most online backup tools let you select multiple folders and files at once. The web interface makes setting up a backup plan much easier.
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