GFI launches free full-featured back-up and recovery software
To assist home PC users in these troubled economic times and to help them understand the importance of data back-ups, GFI Software has announced the release of a free version of its newly-developed back-up and recovery software GFI Backup 2009 - Home...
To assist home PC users in these troubled economic times and to help them understand the importance of data back-ups, GFI Software has announced the release of a free version of its newly-developed back-up and recovery software GFI Backup 2009 - Home Edition.
Perfect for home users, GFI Backup 2009 will allow all PC users to safeguard their precious memories in the form of pictures, video, Office documents and any files on the computer.
The free software can be downloaded from www.gfi.com/backup-hm/free-backup-software/ and allows home users to keep regular and updated copies of all their important files and safeguard their data in case something goes wrong.
"Security threats do not only affect small businesses but home users as well. In many cases, loss of data for individuals can be heartbreaking as memories, personal documents and important files are lost due to hard disk failure or a virus attack. We firmly believe in helping people to be better prepared and we are doing this by giving home users a full-featured back-up software product for free," Walter Scott, CEO at GFI said.
"GFI Backup 2009 is currently available for single owners/home users but we will be releasing a corporate version later this year. In hard economic times, we believe it is important that vendors like GFI assist small businesses. We have previously focused on helping companies address e-mail and security problems and this is our first release of a recovery product designed specifically for home users," he added.
GFI Backup 2009 is an easy-to-use backup and recovery software solution that allows users to back up all their important files and, when needed, recover the data within minutes using the product's wizard-driven interface. GFI Backup 2009 does not use a proprietary format; all data is saved to common ZIP files. This makes it easy to restore data to a computer that may not have GFI Backup installed on it.
Data can be stored on nearly every storage device available such as internal or external hard disks, on local area network (LAN) locations, CD/DVD media, removable media devices (USB sticks, memory sticks, flash memory, floppy disks, etc) and remote locations using FTP with upload auto-resume.
Data can also be protected with military-strength 256-bit AES strong encryption.