Seeding your inital backup offers the ablity to backup the bulk of your data with out having to wait for it to upload over the internet which in most cases can be alot faster special for backup sets which are over 50GB.
Please Note that this is only for inital backup only as it will over write any data current previously hosted on our servers.
Seeding is the same as backing up to an external drive connected to your computer. It is a good idea to continue to backup to this drive after the seed has been complete as well.
How to Seed your first backup.
- Make sure computer is on and external drive is connected.
- Start the "Online Data Storeage" Software
- Go to Destinations
- Click the Folders tab
- Click Select and Choose the External Drive as your backup location
- Click Start backup
- Wait for it to be complete.
Once finished eject the External Drive and carefull package it up (please include any USB and power connectors it uses).
Send or drop it into our office
Depending on the size of the seeded data we should have it in place on our servers in about 1- 3 days. You will be notifed by email and one of the team will give you a call.
Addional infomation
Seeding is not required but recormended special for backup sets over 50GB
The Seeding service is part of your backup service costs.
If you require to backup data greater then 2TB please call or email to discuss the best means of having a local backup and seeding data. One of our team will be able to advise which methods are open to you and aproxmite costs.
