How It Works

1. With our easy to use desktop application, you can select multiple files and folders on your hard drives (network drives too) to backup. You can also compress and encrypt all the selected files for more efficient and secure storage. All files are encrypted before they leave your computer or server.
   
   
   
2. You can also backup files using the web based file manager. Simply log in to our site with your user account from any computer connected to the internet and you can select individual files to upload to your Halobak account.

Access

Once the files are backed up to our servers, you can access them immediately, 24/7, using our desktop application, or with the web based file manager.
The web based file manager allows you to have access to your backed up files using a web browser from any computer connected to the Internet.
 
Restore

You can restore files and folders with the desktop application, or using the web based file manager. The files are time-stamped for easier identification of the backup date.
 
Schedule

You can create backup jobs using the desktop application and schedule the backups to be executed at the selected intervals. You can schedule backups to execute every hour, day, week, month, or many other combinations. Once set, the backups run automatically without any further intervention by the user. Even when the user is logged off the computer (computer running the scheduled backup must be on)
 
Notifications

You can configure them to notify you of the completed backups through email, or only if there was a problem. With this option you can be sure the backups were successfully completed, or that an error occurred and manual action must be taken to investigate the cause of the error. No false sense of security.
 
Security

Halobak maintains a high level of security throughout its systems to maintain the integrity of your data, and protect it from unauthorized use/access.
All Communications between the desktop application running on your computer/server and our datacenter are encrypted using 128bit SSL encryption (same high level security used by banks). When using our web based file manager, the connection is also encrypted with 128bit encryption.
 
Optionally, you can choose to encrypt all the backed up files using the Blowfish algorithm, and using a 448bit encryption key. Encryption is based on a password that you supply.  Files are encrypted on your computer/server before they are transmitted to our datacenter. This ensures that the data cannot be used, read, modified, or otherwise utilized without the original password used to encrypt them.
           
Efficiency

Compression - The system makes efficient use of available bandwidth by giving the user the option of compressing the individual files before they are transferred to our datacenter.
Incremental Backup - Backups actions can be configured to only transfer new files, or files that have changed since the last backup was made, thus reducing the needed bandwidth. NOTE: The first full backup will be take the longest time to complete, successive incremental backups are faster since only changed files are backed up.