Online storage customers will be aware that the initial backup is the most time consuming backup around, because let’s face it we don’t all have blistering fast internet speeds where we can benefit from super fast uploads.

If you’re uploading using a standard DSL connection for anything around 20GB and above, it will take a considerable amount of time uploading.

MiMedia has realised this and introduced an ingenous way to take the hassle away, during the first backup you will be sent a very useful USB 2.0 external harddrive for you to take a backup with and send it over, and their technicians will transfer the backup files onto your online storage space, saving you months or possibly years uploading your storage files.

Now you may be thinking, what’s the point of online backup then? if I have to rely on physical backups to make it happen? Well the truth is that upload speeds around up to 10-20 times slower than download speeds, so while it make take a long time to upload your files, it takes a far shorter amount of time to download your files.

Secondly online storage works in a way so that you online need to upload modified files once you’ve got a full system back, and what this means is that subsequent backups are fast and almost instant.