Got an interesting email this morning from Livedrive regarding one of their now former resellers, Backify. Backify made a splash roughly a month ago when they opened the doors and offered users 512GB of space for free. They promptly ended that promotion stating in another press release that they had 50,000 users signup. At that time it looked like all the free users would keep their free space, but that appears to no longer be true.
According to the email from Livedrive, Backify is no longer a reseller of the Livedrive service. If you do visit the Backify website today and click “Sign Up” you will be presented with a lightbox window telling you that “New accounts are temporarily unavailable.” Not sure how they are going to start creating accounts again in a few hours since they no longer have a service to sell, but that is what happens when someone tries to sign up.
Hopefully you were not relying on Backify for your main backup. I highly encourage you to try one of our top ten services. They are companies that we feel can be trusted to keep your data safe.
Here are some links to our top ten services as off October 2011. If you want unlimited space for your backup take a look at one of our top three.
- Backblaze – Read our review
- CrashPlan – Read our review
- Carbonite – Read our review
- SpiderOak – Read our review
- IDrive – Read our review
- SugarSync – Read our review
- SOS Online Backup – Read our review
- Mozy – Read our review
- Keepit – Read our review
- Memopal – Read our review
Below is the email I received from Livedrive.
ADVISORY NOTICE FROM LIVEDRIVE REGARDING BACKIFY.com
Dear John
We are writing to you regarding Backify.com who you recently created an online backup account with.Backify.com was a reseller of Livedrive (http://www.livedrive.com). Livedrive provided the technology and service behind the product offered to you by Backify.com.
We are writing to inform you that Backify.com is no longer a Livedrive reseller and the services that they purchased from our company on your behalf have been terminated. If you are using a service provided by Backify.com and powered by Livedrive then this service will now have stopped working.
We would also like to advise you that we have received a number of complaints about Backify.com from their customers and from industry organizations. We would like to advise you not to provide any credit card information to Backify.com. If you have provided credit card information to Backify.com then we would suggest contacting your card provider and informing them that your card may be used fraudulently. If Backify.com have charged your card for services not provided you should contact your card provider and ask them to initiate a chargeback procedure.
Please note that this advisory is being sent to you in good faith because we feel you should be informed that Backify.com is no longer a Livedrive reseller and of the complaints we have become aware of. No contract exists between yourself and Livedrive and we are not able to assist further in any dispute you may have with Backify.com.
If you have installed the online backup software provided by Backify.com we highly recommend you uninstall it from your computer by following the steps below:
On Windows:
Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel and select Add/Remove Programs (or ‘Programs and settings’), select Livedrive and select uninstall.On Mac:
Go to Finder > Applications and delete the Livedrive application.Please note that any data you backed up using Backify.com cannot be retrieved and we recommend you establish an alternative backup service immediately.
Livedrive does provide a very similar online backup service to the one provided by Backify.com and you can read more details and, if you wish, signup for a trial on our website at http://www.Livedrive.com. Please note however that we do not provide a free service as Backify.com did.
Other online backup vendors you may wish to consider include:
Carbonite
IDrive
MozyWe are sorry for the inconvenience this situation may have caused you.
Kind Regards
Livedrive Limited
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