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Symantec Launches Norton Online Backup
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.