Symantec Launches Norton Online Backup

Filed in archive Online on March 22, 2009

Symantec this week launched Norton Online Backup, a relatively straightforward automated consumer backup service designed to compete directly with Mozy, BackBlaze and others.

"Norton Online Backup can protect up to five household computers and operates via a software agent in the Windows XP/Vista PC or notebook," writes The Register's Chris Mellor. "You can select specific files/folders to backup, or have it back up the entire C: drive and an initial full backup then runs. Thereafter, block-level incremental changes are backed up, either to a schedule you specify or automatically when the PC is inactive."

"Symantec is using the 128-bit AES encryption algorithm to protect data while it's being transmitted to its data centers, and 256-bit AES encryption on its servers," writes Computerworld's Lucas Mearian. "The company also makes multiple copies of the data that it stores off-site for disaster recovery purposes."

The service costs $50 a year for 25 GB of storage, with additional storage space available in increments of 10, 25, 50 and 100 GB.

More here from PC Mag ... more here from IT Business ... more here from ChannelWeb ... and the press release is here.