What does æThe ElephantÆ cost?
æThe ElephantÆ, is the most cost-effective method of backing up your data available on the market.
The backup will work during 'off peak' hours meaning the call charges are the cheapest possible with a call charge of less than 1p per minute via your telephone provider.
REMEMBER: æThe ElephantÆ has some unique design features that make the files as small as possible and the data transfer as fast as possible.
By default 'The Elephant' will backup your 'My Documents' folder.
You can also select any additional files you wish to æaddÆ or æremoveÆ from the backup by tailoring your backup profile to suit your requirements. Therefore, you can select to backup only those files which are important to you.
æThe ElephantÆ, is intelligent enough to know which of your selected files have changed since your last backup. It will select only these files for backup which minimises the data to be transmitted û ætechnology saving more timeÆ. If the computer has had no updates the system will not instruct a backup to take place.
A clever compression tool has been built into the software which compresses files by up to 300% prior to transmission, this reduces the time taken to conduct the backup.
Your computer is connected to 'The ElephantsÆ secure server directly and NOT via common Internet channels.
This dramatically increases the speed at which the data is transferred since there are no Internet bottlenecks caused by traffic on the Web. This also offers major security benefits. (See "Is my data secure?").
The amount of compressed data transferred via a standard modem will typically be 3Mb every minute depending on file type.