CloudAlly FAQ

To protect it from loss. Approximately one-third of data loss is caused by user errors such as the accidental deletion of data or committing changes in error.  In addition to user errors, issues such as hacked accounts, 3^rd party app synchronization and temporary outages can all put your data at risk.

An account is defined as:

• Each active Office 365, Google Apps or Salesforce User
• Each SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business Site
• Each individual personal Google Gmail or Yahoo! Mail account

No, You can backup all of your accounts with a single CloudAlly account.

Your archives are stored in Amazon S3 secure storage. You can select an Amazon data center in the US, Canada, EU or Australia when you set-up your CloudAlly account to comply with local data privacy requirements.

You can locate the data that you want to restore by using a date snapshot or our search function. Once you’ve selected the data to be restored and click on restore, the backup data will be restored in a non-destructive method by creating a sub-folder labeled CloudAlly Restore with a time/date stamp. You can then locate the needed information and delete the sub-folder as soon as you are finished.

Yes, cloud service providers have built in redundancy and backups for their own disaster recovery, but not for your own personal disaster.

Most service providers are unable to recover customer data once it’s been purged from the recycle bin. CloudAlly solves this problem by providing secure, automatic cloud based backup and restore services with a few simple clicks.

Yes, your data is secure every step of the way. Stored data is encrypted using advanced AES-256 encryption algorithms, and all data transmitted between you, the online application and CloudAlly is encrypted and secured using SSL (HTTPS) enabled servers. All of our servers are strongly secured, hardened and include the latest security patches. Each application backup is encrypted using a unique encryption key so in the unlikely even that a key is compromised, it cannot be used to decrypt the other application backups.

Please, review our Security page.

All of your data is stored is stored in Amazon S3 secure storage. Amazon’s data replication and security, multiple storage centers and 99% uptime availability makes it the perfect choice to ensure your data is safe and accessible to you at all times. By default, backups are stored on the Amazon US datacenter, but customers can select AWS E.U. or Australia datacenters by contacting our support team on our Customer Support Hub.  

CloudAlly is ISO 27001 certified, the internationally recognized accreditation for information security management. This certification recognizes CloudAlly’s ongoing commitment to secure cloud backup services by strict adherence to industry best practices related to security and risk management, as well as business continuity management and compliance.  

Please, review our Security page.

GDPR is the European Union (EU) new privacy regulation called the General Data Protection Regulation.

Please, view our statement on compliance with GDPR by clicking Here.

In most cases we use an industry standard called OAuth that enables us to backup your data without storing user name and password.

Instead, CloudAlly uses a “token” (or permission) to access your data. The token is limited to exactly what CloudAlly needs to do and doesn’t provide CloudAlly general access to your account.

Our backups are Immutable, the data cannot be altered once it’s backed up so if the customer has a ransomware attack, all versions are available for recovery. We don’t execute the content as we’re backing it up, the content is immediately encrypted and stored. If a file is infected, we will back it up and restore it, but we don’t execute it so no malware will be executed. 

We protect ourselves against malware attacks by isolating our servers from the internet. There is no access to our servers from the internet, and no content is executed. Our software is Linux based which is much more secure than Windows and less likely to face attackes.