A new online backup service intended at enticing small businesses with a new pricing model and additional features, including encryption.

The company said it has already backed up more than 39 billion files in its shopper business, including data from about 100,000 small businesses that pay $54.95 per year for unlimited storage.

But since Carbonite's consumer service doesn't always meet business necessities, the company is offering Carbonite Pro, which provides features "that small businesses have requested."

Now we have a version of Carbonite that incorporates all that these small-business users have been asking for: no per-PC fees, directorial tools that are simple enough for any office manager to use, the ability to back up outside drives and priority support, Carbonite CEO and co-founder David Friend said in a declaration. Nobody wants to expend a lot of time or money backing up computers, so we've made Carbonite Pro a simple and reasonable online backup service for businesses. With Carbonite Pro, files are encrypted before they leave a user's computer and if an employee leaves a company, an administrator can quickly put out of action that person's access to backups.

The Pro service can be centrally administered during a single dashboard that shows the status of each employee's backup. Recovering data is managed through a Restore Wizard that guides administrators through a step-by-step procedure to find lost or damaged files.

Carbonite Pro users can log into their accounts on the service's Web page from any computer with Internet access and download any file in their backups.