UPDATE: 16th November Backify bullsh*t. I suppose it was always going to be too good to be true, but Backify just sent users an email asking them to update their “billing details” because as of 22nd November free accounts would be suspended. No explanation, no excuses, no apology. There was no mention of the 500Gb being a trial.

UPDATE: 19th October. As predicted Backify has closed its doors to new, free accounts. It’s gained lots of exposure despite its poor spelling, typos and lame website (or perhaps because of it). They appear to piggyback on the LiveDrive system, to which anyone could sign up without Backify and rent out server space. But, I’m happy to have my 500Gb of space, if it expires or fails in some way, I’ll let you know. Meanwhile, my suspicion is that DropBox will up their game soon at least in competition with Box.net, they really ought to be giving 100Gb away now. iCloud will probably have to follow too, but that’s Apple and you know what they’re like for squeezing out every last dollar from their “accessories”.

Backify is still offering 500 gigabytes of cloud storage space to its users (there are bigger paid plans), but rumour has it they will stop accepting new accounts soon.

If you want the free space, grab it now. I should be on a commission, but I’m not. Just hoping Gladinet will open up access so that I can map the space to a drive letter without having to upgrade the account, makes syncing and backup so much easier and would avoid having to use the Backify LiveDrive app for Windows and Mac.

Five steps to getting started:

Step 1: You make an account on Backify.com

Step 2: You download the Backify software and install it.

(Step 2b: You run a full malware check on the download and do a data backup before installing)

Step 3: Within the Backify software, you choose which files and folders you want to have backed up.

Step 4: Backify software automatically starts uploading your data in the background, to our safe and secure servers.

Step 5: Backify sortware keeps monitoring your files. As soon as you change a file, it is backed up automatically.

(There are lots of typos on their site, I’m pretty sure they mean software not sortware. Handle any software site that cannot spell with kid gloves and encrypt sensitive data, using a tool like AxCrypt before you back it up to the cloud.

Backify.