About Us

SendOffsite is a privately owned internet company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Our goal is to provide a safe, secure method of backing up important data to an offsite location, thus preventing the loss of data due to drive failure, file corruption, theft, fire or other disasters.

How often do you backup your computer data? Do you backup your most important files, or all files? Or none of them? Do you backup to a separate folder on your hard drive, or to a separate hard drive altogether? Do you backup through a network to another computer or external hard drive? Do you know how often hard drives fail? Or what the expected lifespan of a hard drive is? Do you know what happens to your data if/when your hard drive fails? What happens if there's a fire or flood? What if your computer is stolen? How important is your data to you, and how easily can you get it back if you lose it?

We all get car insurance without thinking... and yet if we crash our car, it can be fixed or replaced. Can you fix or replace your data if you lose it?

Did you know that ALL hard drives eventually fail?... it's not a matter of "if" but "when". Important files should be backed up regularly, and those backups (if your files are truly important to you) should be stored in a secure location.... offsite. If your backups are not located offsite, that is, in a completely separate building, you can lose all your data with no means of getting it back. In most cases, it means disaster. You may lose all emails, your family photos, all the downloadable software and music you've purchased, your financial data, company data, records, Word and Excel files, databases.... everything that was on your hard drive could be lost... if you don't have a backup.

Over 60% of companies who experience significant data loss are out of business within 6 months. Why? Because most people don't backup properly - either because it takes too much time and effort, or the systems required are too expensive. For those businesses that do backup - the backup is often inadequate - rarely done daily, and rarely taken offsite.

With SendOffsite as your backup solution, all of these concerns can be alleviated. Now small businesses and home users can take advantage of IT-best-practices long used by major companies to make sure they never lose important documents again.

SendOffsite uses a global backup network designed to provide simple and inexpensive offsite backup to anyone. Our facilities are located in the USA (Los Angeles, Austin, Houston), Australia (Melbourne, Brisbane), India, Europe and Ukraine. Once you download the SendOffsite Backup Utility, select which folders and/or files to protect, and set your backups to run monthly, weekly, daily or hourly (and the time of day for the backups to run), your backups will run automatically. Your data will be encrypted on your computer before transmission, then re-encrypted on our servers before storage. For subsequent backups, our compression system will only backup changed files, and even then only the changed 1's and 0's are transferred, thus greatly reducing the amount of time required for backup. We provide an additional level of assurance that is not otherwise available from other backup services... All data is replicated in two data centers, so your offsite backups are also backed up... offsite.

If you have any questions about our service or systems, feel free to contact us at any time.