Symantec’s launches Cloud backup service via Norton
By Tarry Singh at 19 March, 2009, 8:21 am
Symantec is offering consumers a backup to the cloud service through its Norton brand, with 25GB of space costing a smidgen under $50/year.
Norton Online Backup can protect up to five household computers and operates via a software agent in the Windows XP/Vista PC or notebook. You can select specific files/folders to backup, or have it back up the entire C: drive and an initial full backup then runs. Thereafter, block-level incremental changes are backed up, either to a schedule you specify or automatically when the PC is inactive.
Neither Apple Macs nor any flavour of Linux are supported.
Backup data is compressed and encrypted – with 256-bit AES encryption – so a fair amount of local CPU cycles will be needed, particularly for the first full backup. Files can be restored or downloaded from the Symantec cloud via a web browser – IE 6 onwards, Firefox 2.0 or higher, and Safari 3.0 or higher – on any PC. Chrome and Opera users are left out. You can adjust backup settings via the web browser, too.
The data is stored in two or more of a worldwide set of Symantec data centres.
Here is Symantec’s answer to EMC’s Mozy, Carbonite, Spare Backup and other consumer-facing online backup services. With the massive installed base of Norton security software customers Symantec has a huge and obvious upselling opportunity, as well as a bundled price discount opportunity should it wish to take advantage of it.
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