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Integrated Local & “Universal” Backup
The A-1 Night Owl product provides both online and local backup technology in one integrated package, being the first solution to enable customers to backup any data, to any destination, at any time.
We call this “Universal” backup, and it gives enormous power to consumer and SMB users alike who can then configure their backups, for example, to back up their entire computer to an external USB hard drive weekly, their My Documents folder to a network server nightly, and a very important document to the internet continuously, every time it changes.
Continuous Data Protection
Unlike most platforms in the online backup space, the Night Owl Universal Backup client software solution includes support for continuous data protection of a customer’s key files. Known as Night Owl LiveProtect, the system monitors activity on the selected files, and after detecting those files being modified, will back up the customer’s data to up to six data-centers instantly.
Competitive note: none of Night Owl’s main competitors have the ability to watch files and detect changes. Most competitive solutions use a continuous background backup process as a simulation which increases the load on the user’s machine permanently.
Scheduled Backup
Unless the customer chooses Continuous Data Protection, Night Owl does not use system resources except during backups and restores. Local and off-site backups can be scheduled separately.
File & Folder Sharing
The Night Owl system provides end-users with file and folder sharing, including sharing to persons who do not have Night Owl/partner accounts.
Multi-computer Architecture (Account Portability)
Being software as a service, the Night Owl Backup system is inherently designed for use on multiple computers by the end user (although the system can limit backups to 1 or any specified number of computers). What this means in practice is that a customer need only purchase a backup account of an appropriate size, and isn’t restricted by the number of computers they can then back up from. This results in what we call “portability” and it gives you the ability to backup machine A, and immediately recover that data on machines B, C & D. Users expect that backup systems will allow restores to any computer they own. End users will also expect to be able to back up files from their desktops and notebooks, to one centralized backup account.
Competitive note: Night Owl’s major competitors require a separate account or subscription for each computer. This makes immediate recovery difficult, as the user cannot simply recover their files from a secondary machine, but must purchase a second license. This is both frustrating for the user and costs the user more.
Unlimited Versioning
Night Owl provides fully versioned backup, and retains every version of every file that a user backs up. After the initial upload of a file, the Night Owl backup engine calculates binary deltas, extracting only the 1’s and 0’s that have changed in a file since the last backup. Only the binary changes between file versions are transmitted. This has the side effect of creating a version tree, which allows users to roll back to any saved version of a file.
Competitive note: most competitive solutions only support a limited number (usually up to 30) of versions for a given file.
Archiving
Night Owl Online Backup also retains files that a customer accidentally deletes off their client system. The system supports “archiving,” which is explicitly disclaimed by major competitors. Thus if a user accidentally deletes their file from their client system, our system will allow them to recover it ad infinitem.
Competitive note: Most competitors automatically purge backups when a user deletes the original file from their client system, usually within 30 days. Competitors often say that retaining such data constitutes “archiving”, not backup. We believe this is very confusing to consumer and SMB users alike, and ignores the fact that a substantial cause of data loss is accidental deletion of files.
Robust File & Network Support
All our features – open file backup, optional continuous data protection, network and database server backup – are designed for use in enterprise and SMB environments, whilst being carefully engineered from a usability perspective to make sure that the powerful features are still usable by a consumer.
Competitive note: Open file backup, resumable file transferring, continuous data protection and the ability to handle large files are all features of our service that most competitors in the consumer and SMB space do not have.
Multi-data Center Architecture
Night Owl has ten data centers throughout the world (five in the United States, two in Europe, one in Asia and two in Australia). After the initial upload to a data center the data is then sent to a second data center.
In the unlikely event of the catastrophic loss of a center customers are automatically redirected to the redundant center.
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