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About BT My Files Anywhere

BT My Files Anywhere is an exciting service currently being trialed that allows you to backup, share and restore all your important files. With BT My Files Anywhere’s unique Continuous Backup technology, every time you save a file it is automatically backed up onto our secure online servers. And since your files are stored on our secure server you get remote access and sharing of all your files anytime.

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Back-Up Your Data with Confidence
Store your files safely and securely with BT My Files Anywhere – your personal external hard drive on the internet. With BT My Files Anywhere’s exceptional Continuous Backup technology there is no need to drag and drop onto a server or wait for the back-up to happen once a day. The backup of your files just happens and you don’t have to think about it.

Remotely Access Your Files AnyTime
With BT My Files Anywhere’s AnyTime Remote Access you can get to your stored files or photos from any mobile device or remote computer. Once you have accessed a file, you can choose whether to view, share or download it. You can even remotely search your stored files for that important file or photo using your favorite desktop search tool.

Restore Your Files Easily
With BT My Files Anywhere’s advanced restore technology, you can restore all your content back to your computer quickly and easily. Rest easy knowing that if you lost data you can restore your stored file back to your computer.

Share Anything
You can securely share or remotely email any stored file to anyone -- whether they’re at their computer or offsite with just their mobile phone. And even large files can be easily transferred with no worries about file size restrictions, because sharing happens via a secure link to the BT My Files Anywhere server. You can even show off a stored PowerPoint presentation as a slideshow right from your cell phone or extract single slides from a presentation and share those slides with others quickly and easily.

Mobilize Your Email
Wherever you go, so does your Outlook and Mac Mail. With BT My Files Anywhere, you can be more productive by remotely connecting to Outlook or Mac Mail from your cell phone. Not only can you check your inbox while you are away but you can reply to emails as well. You can even access and manage your Outlook contacts and Mac Addresses without ever syncing up devices again! What’s more, you can access your Outlook calendar — all effortlessly and remotely.

It’s Secure!
Access to your files is through a secure network that uses 128 bit SSL encryption -- the same encryption as online banking transactions. So your data stays secure and private. Additionally, when you share a document, your recipients will only see exactly what you have shared with them and nothing else.

How It Works


BT My Files Anywhere service is quick to setup and use:

Use the easy wizard to install a small software agent onto the computer containing the files you wish to store. This agent, which runs in the background on your computer, securely transfers an encrypted copy of your files to BT My Files Anywhere’s backup server.

When you need to access your files, you simply log onto myfilesanywhere.bt.com (from any device with a browser and internet connection), type in your name and password and you have instant access to all your stored files.

Features


Continuous Backup - as soon as you change a file it is backed up onto our secure server. It runs in the background without interrupting you.

Advanced Restore- easily restore all your files back to your computer if they have been lost.

Remote Access- get to your files and photos from any web-enabled computer or mobile device anytime.

Superior Security- all data transactions are password protected with 128-bit encryption -the most secure available.

Remote Sharing- share any file, regardless of size from a mobile phone or remote computer.

Outlook and Mac Mail Access- access your email and contacts, or your Outlook calendar.  Respond to emails from your cell phone and your email is automatically updated on your computer.

PowerPoint Slideshow- show a PowerPoint presentation as a slideshow from your cell phone. 

Document Conversion- see any document, regardless of file type, on your cell phone screen.  Read the text, view the graph, and flip from one page to the next. With BT My Files Anywhere you can view more than 30 different document types, precisely formatted to fit your cell phone screen!

Search- quickly locate any file on your computer using the latest desktop search tools; Google Desktop Search, Windows Desktop Search or Spotlight on the Mac.

Integrated Email and SMS- found that file? Now instantly send it to the colleagues who need it – your choice of Email or SMS notification!

Secure Access- access to your computer is through a safe, password protected and encrypted link. BT My Files Anywhere uses the same encryption as online banking transactions so you can be confident your files are safe and secure.

View and Track Changes in Word- view changes and edit made to your Word documents.

Unlimited Computer Access- you can install the BT My Files Anywhere service on an unlimited number of computers. So whether it is your home or office computer you can access the content you need with BT My Files Anywhere. 

Photo Slideshow- create an interactive slideshow with your photos where your recipients can view and add comments.

Useful Terms


Your Web-Enabled Mobile Device or Remote Computer
Using your normal wireless service, access is made possible with no software installed on your mobile device or remote computer.

BT My Files Anywhere Service
The service authenticates and stores all the files you choose to backup.

BT My Files Anywhere Desktop Agent
A small client securely transfers your encrypted files to the BT My Files Anywhere service and continuously backs up any changed files.