Data Backup

Data loss is one of the big fears of the technology age. With our home computers often containing data like personal finances, work files, appointments, family photographs, our music collections & more, losing your data can be a frightening prospect.

While the results of data loss can be devastating, it doesn’t have to be a worry. Performing a regular data backup allows you to secure your most important files, which will give you reassurance against the problems associated with data loss. Spending some time to protect against your hard drive failing is time well spent. We offer you a data backup service that backs up all your information for you, we will back any files up onto either a secondary hard drive or onto media such as a DVD.

Data Transfer

Getting a new PC to replace an old one is always exciting. But, the most daunting thing you’ll have to do with your PC is moving your files and folders to the new one! The thought of transferring all that information can become a daunting task, After all, you want to play with your new PC, not sit copying files.

We can also copy your data onto external media such as an external hard drive or a memory stick.

We know how to move your data quickly and securely. We’ll transfer all your files and folders to your new PC for you as fast as possible. At the same time we can provide you with a backup of all your files should you lose the data off your PC in the future. Check out our Data Backup service for more information.

Data Recovery:

Are you experiencing hard disk or memory card failure? Recently dropped your laptop? Accidentally deleted some important files? If so then you can use our data recovery service to recover the data that was stored on your PC.

We use the latest technology to extract the information, for example; we can usually restore all very recently deleted files, although the longer you leave them deleted, the lower the chance we can recover them. We can restore from hard drives, memory sticks, flash cards, zip drives and any other magnetic media.

For recovering files from damaged PC's, even the most corrupted PC, where the hard drive or storage media is still intact, we can normally restore much of the lost data. The recovered data can then be transferred to a new hard drive or replacement computer. If we cannot recover your data we will be able to provide you with a quote to get your data extracted at a specialist data recovery lab.

Data Cleanse/Removal:

When you’ve bought a new PC, disposing of your old PC can become an issue. Do you pass it to a family member, sell it on eBay or donate it to the local primary school raffle? whatever you are planning on doing with your computer once you have finished with it, you should consider data cleansing a necessity. Reformatting your hard drive is not enough to protect against identity theft or to prevent confidential documents being extracted. All reformatting does is remove the links to the files on the drive, the data is still physically held on the drive and anyone can get at this with recovery programs freely available. With just a few simple pieces of information, someone could potentially get a passport, a personal credit or a driving license in your name.

Our Data Cleanse service will remove all the data from your PC, allowing it to be disposed of safely or passed on to someone else without the worry of your data being recovered later by unscrupulous individuals. We use DoD 5220-22.M military standards to ensure the destruction of your data is to a secure level. This means that the entire drive will be completely overwritten 3 times. There will be no way of ever recovering the data once this process has been completed.

This process can take a long time, the length of the process is entirely dependent on the size of the drive.

Online Backup

One of the most important things you can do on your computer is backup all of your important files. Copying to DVDs is good, but how many DVDs will you need? A safer and more practical way to store your files is online. Our Online Data Backup service uses Spare Backup's intelligent file selection system. It checks your computer for any files it thinks are important and automatically selects them for online data backup. You can also make a custom selection of files if you wish.

Spare Backup compresses, encrypts and then uploads your files to their secure online data backup centres. Should you ever need to restore from your backup, this is easily done through the Spare Backup software. You can even restore your files on to another computer if you need to.