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posted on 13 February 2008 06:51

Roxio, the CD/DVD burning software company, is joining the cloud by offering a backup over the Internet service.

The company sells a BackOnTrack product to backup a hard drive's files to another hard drive or an optical disk. Now it is offering this as an online service, in the USA, for $49.99/year. The company says that 'photos, documents, music, emails are automatically backed up. New and changed files are instantly detected and backed up whenever you are connected to the Internet.'

The backup apparently doesn't slow your computer down - apparently, but note that backed up files are encrypted before being sent to Roxio's remote backup centre. CPU cycles aren't free. My take is that the first backup session is of full files and very much slows your computer down. Subsequent backups are incremental and have less effect.

When files are restored the Roxio backup centre presents your files as an externally-connected hard drive with drag-and-drop restore.

There is unlimited storage capacity. Find out more at http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/backontrack/online/overview.html