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*PLEASE NOTE: If your desktop or laptop is being used as a file server for other computers or missiion critical business applications, you will need to use CUBE LiveBackup Service for Business. For more information, please visit LiveBackup for Business.

Continuous Data Protection

Protecting Your Data

CUBE LiveBackup Service protects your documents and files using a two-step process: mirroring and versioning.

Once installed and connected, an exact copy of your data created on the LiveBackup Server. When this mirroring process is complete, you must reboot your computer. After restart, LiveBackup creates a checkpoint, which is a complete backup of your documents and settings, from which it can restore individual data files at your request.

Next, LiveBackup versions files. Versioning is the process of continuously tracking all changes made to each and every protected file on your computer. The LiveBackup service then saves each change as a new version of the file is saved and copies that version to the LiveBackup Server. Using this continuous journal of file changes stored on the server, LiveBackup can recover all information up to and including the very last file save.

LiveBackup operates in the background, protecting data automatically--without intervention. LiveBackup's continuous tracking operates at the file system level, so it allows recovery easily and eliminates the need for you to perform complicated and cumbersome restoration procedures. Because of the simplicity of operation, you can recover data files without help from the CUBE LiveBackup Administrator.

Protected User Document

CUBE LiveBackup Service for Personal Computers provides continuous protection of the user doucment stored on all local drives including drives c: through z:

User Documents Include:

  • My Documents Folder
  • Start Menu Files
  • Microsoft Office Documents
  • Streaming Audio / Video Files
  • Email Inboxes
  • Graphics and Text Files
  • Application Development Files
  • Mozilla Files

In Addition, the following specific files types are also protected:

  • *.dat, *.dbf, *.fpt, *.js, *.mab, *.msf, *.pls
  • *.q00, *.q01, *.q02, *.q03, *.q98, *.q99, *.qba, *.qbb, *.qbx, *.qfi
  • *.sbd, *.sdw, *.snm, *.ss

For more comprehensive system and data protection, please check out Cube's LiveBackup Servcie for Business Systems (see below).

PLEASE NOTE:

The following directories are NOT backed up...

  • Local Temporary Directories
  • The Recycle / Trash Bin
  • Microsoft Systems Restore Points
  • Temporary Internet Files
  • Temporary Download Files
  • Log Files

In Addition, the following specific files types are also NOT protected:

  • *.dmp, *.dsk, *.gho
  • *.ovf, *.xva (Citrix XenServer virtual machines)
  • *.ima, *.img, *.iso
  • *.tmp, *.vmdk, *.wbk
  • as well as config.msi files

LiveBackup Service for Business Systems

For those with more comprehensive backup needs (Windows, UNIX and Linux servers, network attached storage, etc.), CUBE also provides a complete suite of online enterprise backup services and disaster recovery solutions for your 'mission critical' information.