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The appliance uses autonomic technology, making it self-healing and able to cope with error conditions and open files, Thompson told iTWire.

"Companies benefit from zero-effort backup and fast, stress-free recovery, with a predictable pay-as-you-go model," said Thompson.

LiveBackup is "aiming for 50 GB as an entry point" but there is no hard and fast rule. A software-only version may be offered at a later date for small customers who want the assurance of cloud backup to Australian data centres, but that will inherently require the installation of software on each system that is to be backed up.