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It preselects all documents, photos, music, and videos, but you can change this selection later. With the security decision out of the way, SOS's backup wizard launches. We appreciate Infrascale's statement that 'We do not sell or rent Customer Data or Personal Information to anyone.' Note, however, that it retains the right to share data with third parties to maintain or provide its services or to comply with law enforcement 'when required by a subpoena, court order, search warrant, other legal process.' This is all standard practice. SOS uses this data to contact you, as well as provide and improve its services. Infrascale's privacy policy states that it collects a few categories of information, namely account data and system metadata. SOS Online Backup is a product of Infrascale, a company based in California, in the US. Other services, including Carbonite, Backblaze, and IDrive, allow you to enable this much more easily with a dedicated option in the settings section of their respective web interfaces. Basically, you need to fill out your user information in the Manage section of the website (which we discuss later) and then submit a request to a representative. Speaking of passwords, SOS Online Backup does support two-factor authentication, but you have to jump through a few hoops to enable it. For all but the most privacy-minded, choosing standard is probably a good idea.

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However, if you lose the key, even SOS employees won't be able to retrieve your data in an unencrypted state, so it's probably smart to have a password manager remember it for you. Managing your own key prevents the company from handing over your data to law enforcement, even if compelled to by a warrant. You alone possess the password for decrypting your backed-up data.

SOS Online Backup says it encrypts locally prior to transfer with AES-256 encryption, then encrypts during transit with 256-bit SSL, then encrypts it one more time using the AES-256 standard once it's at rest on an SOS server.īesides making it impossible to retrieve your password, the UltraSafe Max option doesn't allow you to use the web portal or mobile devices. You can switch between account types at a later date, but you need to delete any backup sets first. Also, whereas the UltraSafe option uses a random key to encrypt your files, the UltraSafe Max option requires you to maintain a local encryption key.

With both of these options, you won't be able to reset your password if you lose it. You can also pick one of two ultra-secure choices: Standard UltraSafe and UltraSafe Max. After entering an account email and password, you can use standard password security, in which your encryption key is maintained on SOS Online's servers. SOS offers a few options when it comes to protecting your backups. You will get a confirmation email of this request, but this is still more of a roundabout method than we prefer. To cancel an account, you must contact the SOS support team, which will submit a formal ticket to the billing team.

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The SOS Online Backup software is available for Windows (Vista SP2 and newer) and macOS (10.8 and later). SOS doesn't offer a free storage plan, unlike IDrive and Zoolz BigMind's 5GB free accounts.

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Backblaze offers an unlimited storage plan for $60 per year, but a license only protects a single computer.

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Interested users can sign up for a 15-day free trial account, which doesn't require a credit card.īy comparison, IDrive (13.90 For First Year at IDrive) gives you 2TB of space for an unlimited number of computers at $69.50 per year. Plans are available all the way up to a whopping 10TB for $299.99 per month or $2,999.99 per year. Paying $7.99 per month or $79.99 per year bumps the limit up to 100GB. Granted, that plan does cover up to five computers and unlimited mobile devices. For $4.99 per month or $44.99 per year, you only get 50GB of storage. SOS is one of the most expensive online backup options we've reviewed. Our other complaint with this otherwise excellent service is that its desktop and mobile apps are in need of a design refresh. We also like that a single license is good for several computers and an unlimited number of mobile devices, even if its storage rates are expensive.

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SOS Online Backup offers more advanced security options than most other online backup services, as well as some special features, including the ability to back up concurrently to a local folder and to truly archive your files.

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