The TOPS Internet Backup Service provides you with the comfort of knowing that your data is always secure, and available to you at any time, from any location. It is also the convenience of automation. The TOPS Internet Backup Service is fully automated. All you have to do is take five minutes to set it up, and the system does the rest. Here is what is involved:

1. Select a backup scheme: TOPS has developed a number of different backup schemes that you can choose from to make backing up your data as detailed as you want. If you do not like the predefined schemes, the system even allows you to create your own backup schemes.
    
2. Define files to backup: Since the backup program is fully integrated with TOPS Professional, the system makes it easy for you to define exactly what you want backed up. You may choose to only backup accounting files, for example. All you have to do is click a checkbox next to the module sections that you want backed up.
    
3. Define communities to backup: The backup program will display a full list of all of your communities from TOPS Professional. Simply check the communities that you want to back up, or click a button to check them all.

That’s it! Once you have performed these three simple steps, your backup program is activated and ready to use.

Based on the schedule that you set in step one, your computer will connect to the Internet, compress the community files that will be backed up, and upload those compressed files to an offsite Internet server. Once per night, that server is automatically backed up to another server. This process of redundant backups is the hidden jewel of the TOPS Backup Service. By storing your data on two different servers in two different locations, TOPS gives you the extra assurance that your data will be available to you when you need it most.

The TOPS Backup Service is more than just an online backup system. Since your data is being backed up through TOPS, it is very easy to restore just the files you need. In fact, you could even use the TOPS Backup Service as a method of sharing community data between offices. Simply backup data from your main office, and restore it to a remote office. Presto! Your remote office instantly has the most up-to-date owner database, or A/R records, and so on.

There are so many uses for the TOPS Backup Service, and so many reasons why it will become the most important tool in your property management toolbox. Don’t wait! Sign up for the TOPS Backup Service today! With prices starting at $15 per month, the question is not whether you can afford this service, but whether you can afford NOT to have this service. Disaster is lurking just around the corner, are you ready for it if it strikes? Be prepared with the TOPS Backup Service.