Spare Backup®, Inc.

Spare Backup Launches Spare Mobile

2008-09-15T11:58:00.000-07:00

For mobile phone users to remotely access photos, music and podcasts from their home computer
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on Mon, July 14th, 2008

Spare Mobile, which will be released within the upcoming weeks in a limited beta form with a full version expected in the third quarter, will allow users to access, download, play and back up their digital content -- photos, podcasts, videos, music, emails and more -- anytime and anywhere through their Internet-enabled mobile device.

"Sixty-two percent of Americans are part of a mobile population that participates in digital activities away from home or work," said Cery Perle, CEO of Spare Backup, Inc. "As consumers increase the amount of digital content in their lives, they want to be able to access that content at any given time from any given location, with as few devices as possible. Spare Mobile provides an affordable and effortless solution to meet these demands by allowing users to play their music, share their photos and listen to their podcasts, all while using the same device."

Since its inception in 2003, Spare Backup has attracted a substantial client base for its cutting-edge and easy-to-use backup and recovery solutions for both businesses and consumers. "As consumers spend an increasing amount of time on-the-go, mobile devices are becoming vital to both our business and personal lives," continued Perle. "Moving into the mobility sector is the next logical step for us to respond to consumer demand and provide our customers with what they need, when they need it, and at a price they can afford."

Interview with Cery Perle, CEO and Founder of Spare Backup Inc.

2008-09-05T15:07:00.000-07:00

This is an exclusive interview by BackupReview.info
Your source for online backup news and reviews

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Q1: Please give us some background information about your company, such as how it was founded, by whom, how long have you been around, where your headquarters are, how many branch offices you have, etc.

A1: Spare Backup was founded in March 2005 by chance when CEO and Founder Cery Perle lost his data after thinking that his computer was being backed up. After searching for a solution to recover and backup in a retail store, Perle decided to create a product that is user-friendly and automatic. Our flagship product is Spare Backup, a fully-automated remote backup solution designed and developed especially for the small office or home environment that automatically and efficiently backs up all data on selected laptop or desktop computers. As a result, we believe that consumers and small companies can ensure file safety in personal computers (PCs) and laptops for backup and retrieval. We launched our Spare Backup service and software product version 1.0 in March 2005 and are currently offering version 5.0 of the product. Spare Backup is headquartered in Palm Desert, California.

Q2: Is your customer base primarily in the US, or is there a significant international presence as well?

A2: About 75% of business today comes from overseas in the UK through our relationship with DSGI (Europe’s largest consumer electronic retailer); however, we have just begun shipping on every Sony (VAIO) computer in the US.

Q3: How many employees do you have and how big is your R&D department?

A3: 39 full-time employees, with 14 in R&D and 8 in Quality Assurance.

Q4: What makes your company and its service different from others?

A4: We are clearly different in our user interface and the ease of use for our software, along with the new value-added features we are introducing, such as Spare Mobile, which allows anytime, anywhere access to digital content from an enabled mobile device.

Q5: One of the biggest concerns of online backup users is data security and privacy. How have you addressed those issues?

A5: All data is encrypted using private encryption keys only held by user.

Q6: How has the online backup business evolved in the past few years, and how do you see it further evolving?

A6: This is still a very young market with no direct leaders and is taking time to develop. We see it being the starting point for anytime, anywhere access via a “cloud,” allowing access to your content from any device.

Q7: Whom do you consider your main competitors? And why?

A7: EMC/Mozy, and we see Carbonite in the RFP’s; however, we have very different models.

Q8: Large companies like Microsoft and Google have started to offer online storage solutions. Do you fear them? How can you compete with such formidable adversaries?

A8: You always look out for the 800lb gorilla; however, fear is not what we do. We stay very focused on our product roadmap and partners’ needs. We have a different end-user and are leveraging our partners’ brands (Sony, DSGI, etc.) in our model.

Q9: Where do you see the online backup market heading?

A9: In the “clouds.”

Q10: Which companies are your main sales partners globally?

A10: DSGI and Sony

Q11: How many subscribers do you have?

A11: Over 60,000

Q12: What is the amount of file you backed up in your servers?

A12: 150 TB

Q13: What the most regrettable mistake that you or your company has made in the past?

A13: Going into retail too early, and trying to come out with features that the market was not ready for.

Q14: How would you handle that mistake if you were given a second chance?

A14: We would have partnered earlier instead of going into retail.

Q15: In the future, say five years from now, do you think the cost of online storage will remain as it is today, or will it go significantly cheaper? For example, to back up a 1 GB file?

A15: It is hard to forecast where our technology will be, as there are so many upcoming great new startups out there that can bring down the cost.

Q16: What are some of the advantages you offer over the competition?

A16: We use best-in-breed hardware and software combinations.

Q17: Can you tell us about your servers, please? Where they are located, how many backups you perform, if server room is controlled for humidity, temperature, and whether there is backup power?

A17: Our servers are located in NJ and AZ. All servers are housed in Tier-3 data centers, which provide environmental controls, as well as backup power. Snapshot backups are performed hourly on our systems.

Q18: Now that we know about you, we want to ask you about us. As you know BackupReview.info is the ONLY website providing information about the top 25 online backup companies on a monthly basis. We have more than 400 backup companies listed in our directory. We have been in the online backup information business since 2004. How can we improve our website and its services?

A18: Premise is very good. Your focus on providing consumers unbiased reviews is great; however the home page for the website isn’t an easy read, and with the animated ads on the right, it is real hard to follow.

Spare Backup, Inc. Receives Extension From Short Term Debt Holders as Revenues Ramp and New Agreements Come Into Effect in the 4th Quarter

2008-08-26T10:10:00.000-07:00

^{Source: Yahoo! Finance, Tuesday August 26, 9:49 am ET}

Company anticipates strong sales growth from existing and new agreements beginning in the 4th quarter

PALM DESERT, Calif., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Spare Backup, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SPBU - News) announced today that the vast majority of its short term debt, due in November, has been extended through August of 2009. This agreement comes as Spare launches additional sales initiatives with DSG and various other previously disclosed partners. The company has paired expenses and sees additional revenue projected to commence in the 4th quarter which should provide positive cash flow from operations.

Spare has initiated cost cutting measures to reduce cash operating expenses by approximately 25%. The cuts will not affect current development initiatives, service or capacity. Management sees revenue ramping as DSG launches a comprehensive program in the fall, and orders are received for its recently deployed enterprise backup solutions.

Commenting on the event, Cery Perle, President and CEO of Spare Backup, Inc., stated, "We are grateful to our note holders for extending their debt until August of next year. Their faith in the growth plans of our company will enable Spare to move forward on more sound financial footing as this greatly reduces our short term cash needs. We are confident that our partnership with DSG and others will ramp significantly in the 4th quarter and have positioned our expenses to achieve sustainable operations based on current and projected sales. We believe these steps will lead our company on a path to profitability in 2009."

For additional information, visit http://www.sparebackup.com. For media relations, please contact Maria-Christina Zajac at Avalanche Strategic Communications, 201-488-0049 or maria-christina@avalanchepr.com.

^{About Spare Backup, Inc.:
Spare Backup, Inc. specializes in helping consumers, small office/home office users and small to mid-sized businesses protect their computer data quickly, automatically and cost-effectively. The company's flagship Spare Backup product is the first totally automated online backup service that intelligently selects, secures and stores files without any user intervention, automatically backing up documents, email, music, photos and other PC files on a continuous basis or according to the schedule of the user's choice. The company is headquartered in Palm Desert, California.

Safe Harbor Statement:
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor for forward-looking information made on the company's behalf. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, which address the company's expectations of sources of capital or which express the company's expectation for the future with respect to financial performance or operating strategies can be identified as forward-looking statements. Such statements made by the company are based on knowledge of the environment in which it operates, but because of the possibility of unknown factors, as well as other factors beyond the control of the company, actual results may differ materially from the expectations expressed in the forward-looking statement. An investment in our common stock involves a significant degree of risk. You should not invest in our common stock unless you can afford to lose your entire investment. You should consider carefully all risk factors and other information in our annual report and quarterly filings before deciding to invest in our common stock. If any of the following risks and uncertainties develops into actual events, our business, financial condition or results of operations could be materially adversely affected and you could lose your entire investment in our company.}

Spare Backup, Inc. Launches 'Corporate Protection Products'

2008-08-20T16:20:00.000-07:00

^{posted by Quanta on Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:47 am}

Market demand fuels company’s decision to expand enterprise capabilities of its popular automated, online backup applications.

PALM DESERT, Calif., July 30 -- Spare Backup, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: SPBU) , a leading provider of automated, online backup applications, has today announced the expansion of its enterprise-level “Corporate Protection Products” with the receipt of its first purchase order from VAIO North America, a division of Sony Electronics.

This announcement comes on the heels of Spare Backup’s recent focus on enterprise-level solutions, bringing its reliable, automated data storage services to IT managers and business executives at large corporations around the globe.

"We are very pleased that Sony’s VAIO division has chosen to use Spare Backup for its enterprise storage needs,” said Cery Perle, CEO of Spare Backup, Inc. “Within days of making this information public, we have already been approached by other large corporations that are interested in aligning themselves with Spare Backup, and we are confident that our revenue in the Third Quarter will only continue to increase because of this.”

With Spare Backup’s “Corporate Protection Products” line, system administrators using the software will have the ability to define business rules for protecting and preserving their valuable corporate assets on business-class desktops, laptops and Windows servers. Account status and passwords can be changed and secure license keys can be distributed in a matter of seconds, all on an easy-to-use web interface.

Additionally, the “Corporate Protection Products” line provides customizable choices, such as backup throttling to minimize CPU usage on slower machines and an auto pause feature to ensure that a backup does not affect computer usage. It even includes a bandwidth throttling to ensure that backups do not utilize the entire Internet bandwidth and slow down other Internet-intensive programs.

To ensure the utmost in security, data stored using Spare Backup is first encrypted and then housed in Tier-3 data centers, which are the most secure back office protection methods currently on the market. The “Corporate Protection Products” line’s predictive software also determines when a disk failure might occur and moves the data to a healthy drive to offer the ultimate in data protection.

“Even the most reliable hard drives have an eventual failure rate of 100%, and large and small companies alike are haunted by the realization that their important corporate files are at risk,” continued Perle. “Now that we’ve helped a substantial number of small- to mid-sized businesses alleviate the headaches caused by lost data, we are looking forward to doing the same at the enterprise level.”

For additional information, visit http://www.sparebackup.com/.

^{About Spare Backup, Inc.:

Spare Backup, Inc. specializes in helping consumers, small office/home office users, and small to mid-sized businesses protect their computer data quickly, automatically and cost-effectively. The company’s flagship Spare Backup product is the first totally automated online backup service that intelligently selects, secures and stores files without any user intervention, automatically backing up documents, email, music, photos and other PC files on a continuous basis or according to the schedule of the user’s choice. The company is headquartered in Palm Desert, California.}

Spare Backup Expands Partnership With DSGi

2008-08-20T16:14:00.000-07:00

^{This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on Tue, August 19th, 2008}

For multiple countries and new products

Because of an excellent historical partnership, Spare Backup, Inc. has expanded its partnership with DSGi, a consumer electronics and PC retailer in the UK and European region.

The restructuring of this relationship will include new product categories and will also involve country expansion. As retailers become increasingly accountable for customer satisfaction and reliability of consumer devices, backup services and cloud computing will be at the core of their service offerings.

Spare Backup is the first totally automated online backup service that intelligently selects, secures and stores files without any user intervention. Because more and more retail customers are reliant on increased mobility and anytime, anywhere access to their precious memories and documents, DSGi continues to choose Spare Backup as its partner to deliver the core of its cloud computing service.

"Spare Backup, Inc. is excited to expand our partnership with DSGi. With the new offerings, we expect to see substantial growth in our retail customer base immediately starting in the Fourth Quarter," said Cery Perle, CEO of Spare Backup, Inc. "As we start to scorecard this product throughout the DSGi chain, we will greatly expand our sales figures in several key metrics, as minimum numbers are being agreed to be sold per store. This represents an excellent opportunity for each company to increase our paying customer base," said Cery Perle, CEO of Spare Backup, Inc.

Spare Backup is the only company to offer true PC archiving, retaining content until the client deletes the information from the Spare Backup copy, not just the PC copy. Additionally, Spare Backup's controlled specialized customer key process allows for the tightest security protection of client content in the industry. Also, DSGi customers can rest assured that their content is protected in one of the several Spare Backup 'state-of-the-art' Tier-3 data centers.

Backup with Room to Spare: FileSlinger™ Backup Reminder 07-25-08

2008-07-28T15:21:00.000-07:00

Reprinted from fileslinger.com, published Saturday, July 26, 2008

When I put out my request for backup stories on HARO, two of the first respondents were eager to tell me about Spare Backup. Maria-Christina Zajac of Avalanche Strategic Communications offered to set up an interview with Spare Backup CEO Cery Perle, and Heather Schroeder at Corporate Advocates wrote to me about the new Spare Mobile service.

Spare just announced last week its Spare Mobile service that may be of particular interest to your readers. The new service provides users with the benefits of real-time mobile access to their content without the risk of lost data due to a malfunctioning device. In addition, Spare users can remotely access photos, music and podcasts from their home computers anytime, anywhere from their mobile device.

Just in case I wasn’t sufficiently convinced of Spare Backup’s wonderfulness, she added:

Spare Backup doesn’t just back up your data, it can actually help you transfer all of your data from your old computer to your new one in 3 easy steps. I switched from a desktop to a notebook about a year ago and I still have things on CD because I didn’t know how else to transfer my files! It’s so easy my mom can do it. :-)

“Easy,” as I discovered when I interviewed Cery Perle on July 15th, has always been a priority for Spare Backup. Cery was motivated to get into the backup business after experiencing a data loss catastrophe. The company he worked for at the time did have a backup system, but someone had forgotten to insert the backup tape for the day he needed. (Shades of the Institute for Backup Trauma’s 2005 video with John Cleese, except that Spare Backup has actually went public in 2003.) Cery wanted a product easy enough for him to use, and the options available at the time didn’t fit that description.

The product I downloaded definitely does. Spare Backup has an attractive interface, dominated by a big green “Click here to Backup” button. (Pedant’s point of contention: “back up” as a verb should be two words.) A sidebar on the right offers tips for changing what to back up and where to store your backup. The default location is online, where you get 50 GB of storage space, but Spare Backup will also work with CDs and DVDs, external drives, and network drives.

The user interface is fairly self-explanatory, but there are detailed user guides with screenshots available, too. I did notice a few slightly odd things. Under “Settings,” you have the following options:

Select files for online backup
Online backup schedule
Select Files for local backup
Manually include/exclude files
Account Information
Advanced

Having the “manually include/exclude” separate from both the offline and online backup options seemed strange to me. Isn’t that part of selecting files for backup?

The default option for either online or offline backup is to back up everything. Since I didn’t want to wait all day for files to transfer, I instead opted to back up just my Microsoft Publisher files online. I then discovered that unlike many backup programs, which back up only your C drive unless you tell them otherwise (and are sometimes configured only to back up one internal drive no matter how many you have), Spare Backup automatically backs up all your internal and external drives, though not your network drives. So it went searching through my C drive, then the D drive where I keep fairly-recent data that isn’t part of current projects, then the F drive (my Free Agent Go). It didn’t copy anything from the M or P drive, but then again, the P drive wasn’t connected properly and the M drive only has a Safety Drill image on it right now, and no individual Publisher files.

Because I back up data from the C drive to both the D drive and the F drive automatically, there are now several duplicates in my Spare Backup storage area. (I’m not too worried: I’ve only used 1.26% of my online storage capacity.) If I adjusted this backup job to exclude the D and F drives (or at least one of them), then I could solve the duplication problem.

Spare Backup automatically pauses when it detects mouse or keyboard activity. The idea is to keep from slowing down your computer, but that can slow down your backup job instead. If your priority is finishing the backup job, you can adjust this under the advanced settings.

One feature Cery mentioned to me, which I haven’t tested, is the ability to restore individual e-mail messages to Outlook, and not just the whole PST file. I meant to test it, but since all my PST files are large, and you can’t back up individual e-mail messages (at least, I didn’t see that option), I decided to do the Outlook backup onto one of my external hard drives.

And so I discovered that while recovering files from online backups is fairly intuitive and done right through the regular Spare Backup interface, recovering from offline backups requires you to run a program called Local Launcher that gets put into the same location as your offline backup.

On the one hand, this makes sense. It means you can restore the data from the external drive even if all you have is the drive, and not the computer you installed Spare Backup on. But it’s a pretty crude interface by comparison with the main program, and it doesn’t let you restore individual messages.

Spare Backup’s best features are clearly reserved for the online backup service. And speaking of online backup, Cery told me that the Spare Key you get when you download the program (and which you need in order to recover your data; I had to enter it in Local Launcher) Is housed at a third company. That means none of Spare Backup’s employees can get to your data, and neither can anyone at the company holding the keys, because the only person with all the pieces is you.

Spare Backup does a private label business for bigger brands. For instance, if you buy a new Sony Vaio, the backup program you’ll find pre-installed on the machine is really Spare Backup. Offering online backup services helps hardware companies retain customers. If you have the customer’s data, you keep the customer. (Spare Backup has a 93% retention rate.) This is why the big enterprise backup companies like EMC and Symantec are buying small online backup companies like Mozy right and left.

Spare Backup is also working on an enterprise product for up to 500 users. (Disclosure: I may be writing a white paper about this for them, which would make them a client, which would at least potentially bias my opinion.)

Ivor Newman, Vice President of Operations

2008-02-26T12:52:00.000-08:00

Mr. Newman has over 19 years of program management and product marketing experience. Prior to joining Spare Backup, Mr. Newman was the Worldwide cross line of business (X-Lob) Program Manager for Dell Inc. where he was responsible for the successful creation and implementation of global services programs. Mr. Newman joined Dell in 1999 and was intimately involved with the global services division. Prior to working for Dell, Mr. Newman was the District Director for a professional services corporation in New York City.

Why Online Backup?

2008-02-26T12:17:00.001-08:00

Backing up data is agreed to be a necessary practice by all. There is no dispute about the significant risks posed by data loss to individuals and organizations. People can lose their photos, their music, their files and their precious memories. Organizations stand to lose their entire business in the case of catastrophic data loss.

Good Backup:

A local backup to an external hard drive at home or in the office, provides some measure of security, and hope of recovery.

Local backups to external drives require the user to remember to commit to the practice of backing up regularly. Some people are rigorous about their backup routine and make it a point to do this once a day. But even with all of this effort, if failure occurs in the late hours of the workday, a whole day's work can be lost completely. Not only that, but if theft, fire, flood or any other disaster occurs, the computers and the external drives can be wiped out all at once, leaving your data irretrievable.

Better Backup:

A backup to tape, which is then transported offsite and stored nearby provides greater security still.

Backup to tape, stored offsite, also requires the user to remember to backup. Then, the tapes are offsite, which means that you end up paying for a service where the delay to retrieve your tape and restore your data can cost valuable time and as they say, "time is money". Not only that, but the tape storage facility is often nearby. So, a natural disaster can wipe out both your local data source and your remote data storage all in one day.

The Best Backup:

Online backup provides the ultimate security, reliability and ease of use.

The only option that truly considers ease of use, and fully eliminates the worry of complete catastrophic data loss is Online Backup. Online Backup is not just offsite, it's remote. No matter what befalls your home town, your data will be safe and accessible. Better still, Online Backup with Spare Backup does not require you to remember to backup. There is no added step for you. You simply install the software and let it do the job of keeping your data safe. And when the need arises to restore lost files - that's as easy as the click of a button too!

Should the worst occur; customers who use online backup enjoy peace of mind, knowing that their data is always ready to be recovered with a few simple steps.

Why Backup?

2008-02-26T10:49:00.001-08:00

Two words: Data Loss.

Data loss can be very costly, to both the consumer and particularly for organizations in the small and medium business (SMB) market where the difference between survival and closure can rest on the ability to recover from a disaster. At the very least, critical data loss will have a personal effect on consumers and a financial impact on companies of all sizes.

There are many ways you can unintentionally lose information on a computer; a child playing the keyboard like a piano, a power surge, fires, floods or any natural disaster. Sometimes equipment just fails. How important is your data to you? You can respond to this question with words, but the steps you take to protect your data are the real answer. Most PC users are pretty casual about data protection—they are comfortable with the stability of applications, operating systems, and the PC hardware itself, so they think their data is safe. Hey, denial is not just a river in Egypt. Thinking that data loss only happens to other people is holding on to a false sense of security. Anyone could experience data loss, and statistically speaking, the chances are good that you will. Why play the odds?

The key to successful disaster recovery and data protection is regular backups. Not only is backup itself vital, but how you backup and where the data is stored must be considered.

Cery Perle, CEO

2008-02-25T18:03:00.000-08:00

Mr. Perle has extensive experience starting, leading and growing companies, including CLP Industries. Mr. Perle's financial management and capital management experience stems from his tenure as President & CEO of a national, NASD-registered company. After losing his own files and trying complicated store-bought products to recover lost data, Mr. Perle founded Spare Backup with the objective of providing a simple solution. He set out to provide the same care his clients had received with their finances but extended it to their data.

What do you consider irreplaceable data?

2008-02-22T11:32:00.000-08:00

By Aaron Rodberg (Technical Research Analyst)

Working for Spare Backup I have heard lots of horror stories about lost data. I have seen many happy customers ecstatic to have the ability to restore their precious files when they've been lost or destroyed.

I work full time and have a busy home life with three kids as well. Data is an issue for me at work and at home. Data must travel between my home and office. Like most people in my position I use a laptop, so I can take work home with me and finish projects while I'm at home with my kids. At any time my laptop is susceptible to theft, damage or even failed hardware, or god forbid - the kids spill apple juice all over the thing!

Of course I use Spare Backup to ensure that my data is always recoverable, but I found myself thinking about the question - What is on my computer that I really could not go without?

I have some music I downloaded and paid for, I sure would hate to have to buy that song again. But I guess that is a viable option. My work, i.e., documents, presentations, email, all backed up in the office and online, and I would sure hate to lose any of it but can it be redone, I guess if it had to be.

Then it occurred to me, MY PICTURES. I have 10 GB of pictures all dating back to when my 1st child was born 8 years ago. We are talking about thousands of irreplaceable photographs capturing moments that we can't go back and live again! There is only one first birthday, only one first ballet recital, only one perfect shot of my daughter with her finger deep in her nose to show the high school boyfriends. This to me would be “catastrophic loss of data!”

There is nothing in the world that can be done to ever get those pictures and memories back. It would be a heart breaking loss. That’s why I use a total solution for this irreplaceable data, so not only do I backup my pictures online but I make an offline backup to DVD every month or so using Spare Backup.

A backup of your backup...

2008-02-22T10:38:00.000-08:00

To ensure that your data is protected; your backups are stored at multiple “Tier 3 Data Centers” in different locations all over the country. If you're not a techie - just know that this fact should make you feel truly secure!

Get ready for the full techie explanation:

The term “Tier 3” refers to a Data Center that meets the standards that are
defined in TIA-942 (Data Center Standards Overview http://www.adc.com/Library/Literature/102264AE.pdf).
This includes items like multiple active power and cooling distribution
paths,redundant components, UPS and generator, cable and hardware layout,
all for the purpose of reducing downtime in the event of a disruption. In
comparison to a Tier 1 or 2 Data Centers, the Tier 3 Data Center is superior
as the Tier 1 and 2 do not meet the above requirements. Tier 3 data centers
are where banks store financial data due to such high standards. Spare
products servers are also compliant with N+1 electrical power redundancy
specifications. N+1 requires 2 power sources for each archive server and a
72 hour emergency generator to provide electricity in case of a catastrophic
loss of power.

This means there is always a backup of your backup!

Spare Backup - Online Solution that Does It All!

2008-02-21T12:48:00.000-08:00

While other solutions promise automatic backups after the user has selected files for backup, Spare Backup's advanced technology finds files automatically. New files, as well as revisions, from virtually every application and folder are selected, saving time and ensuring that important files aren't missed.

Spare Backup was designed to be easy to use and to allow you the freedom to never have to worry about your backup again. Once Spare Backup is installed, backups are automatic, you don't even have to select files for backup, we'll do it for you.

Of course Spare Backup is also powerful and gives you choices to meet individual preferences. Best of all, Spare is meticulously programmed to find and save all the code necessary to make backups match their originals exactly, with all the personality settings users have finely-tuned.

We just didn't feel the need to make it complicated.

Some Features of Spare Backup Software:

Automatic file selection, including data settings and personalities

Auto-recognition and auto-backup of new files

Delta backups of revised files

Up to 5 versions of saved documents

Free Web, email and phone support

Data encryption using 256 bit cipher with a non-algorithmic key

Microsoft Vista Logo Certified

EAR, ITAR-COCOM Export License

Simple Easy User Interfaces

One-Click Backup

Intelligent File Selection

Automatic (unattended) Backup

Client & Web Based File Access

Enhanced Security Backup/Restore

Local Backup (CD/DVD/HD)

24x7 Multi-lingual Telephone Support With Live Chat

Competitive Industry Pricing

DSG International plc Renews Contract With Spare Backup for an Additional Year

2008-02-21T12:12:00.000-08:00

Spare Backup, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SPBU - News) announced today that DSG International ("DSGi")has agreed to extend its contract an additional year. Both parties have agreed to look at additional strategic opportunities in the coming months.

Next month SpareBackup will begin shipping to DSGi private label PC's embedded SpareBackup software SpareBackup's opt-out offer will be launched when the PC buyer initializes his PC purchase and is then covered under the terms of the current agreements between the two companies.

Spare anticipates that its software will be available to over one million customers through this deployment method. This agreement is another step forward in the ongoing relationship between the two companies. DSGi distributes its OEM PC's throughout its customer network and through its 1,450 stores and online stores, spanning 27 countries.

Commenting on the event, Cery Perle, CEO of SpareBackup, Inc. stated, "We are extremely pleased that DSGi has extended our contract, validating the significance of the Spare Backup software concept and business opportunity. Both companies are looking forward to exploring additional opportunities together. DSGi's focus on customer care demonstrates its understanding of the needs of the consumer in this digital age. By embedding our product on its OEM PC's, DSGi makes it that much easier for their customers to insure that the valuable data on each PC is safely and securely stored by Spare Backup software. We look forward to the continued expansion of our marketing efforts in partnership with DSGi throughout its vast network."
About Spare Backup, Inc.

Spare Backup, Inc. specializes in helping consumers, small office/home office users, and small to mid-sized businesses protect their computer data quickly, automatically and cost-effectively. The company's flagship Spare Backup product is the first totally automated online backup service that intelligently selects, secures and stores files without any user intervention, automatically backing up documents, email, music, photos and other PC files on a continuous basis or according to the schedule of the user's choice. The company is headquartered in Palm Desert, Calif.

Safe Harbor Statement: The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor for forward-looking information made on the company's behalf. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, which address the company's expectations of sources of capital or which express the company's expectation for the future with respect to financial performance or operating strategies can be identified as forward-looking statements. Such statements made by the company are based on knowledge of the environment in which it operates, but because of the factors previously listed, as well as other factors beyond the control of the company, actual results may differ materially from the expectations expressed in the forward-looking statement.

About DSGi plc
DSG international is Europe's leading electrical specialist group.
It operates a multi-channel approach to electrical retailing and trades through more than 1,200 stores and online stores, spanning 27 countries and employing 40,000 people. More than 100 million customers shop in-store and online with DSGi every year.
DSGi's retail and e-tail brands include PC World, Currys and Dixons in Ireland, PC World, Currys and Dixons.co.uk in the UK, Elkjop in the Nordic countries, UniEuro in Italy, Kotsovolos in Greece, Electro World in central Europe, PC City in France, Spain, Italy and Sweden, and Pixmania.com across Europe.

DSGi offers customers a comprehensive range of after sales services, including its national customer support operation for IT and digital technology, The TechGuys, which offers telephone and home-based support services throughout the UK. It also runs a multi-brand business-to-business operation in the UK.

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