Proven restorability of data, ease of use and cost effectiveness drive user satisfaction and growing adoption of online backup service

ROSEVILLE, CA, November 5, 2003 — U.S. Data Trust Corporation, a rapidly growing provider of data protection and recovery services for business PC servers, today announced a deal with Adams Outdoor Advertising (www.adamsoutdoor.com.) making them their 100th customer for online backup services. Adams Outdoor Advertising, the sixth largest outdoor advertising company in the United States, chose U.S. Data Trust to protect its critical business data across 12 different locations.

Adams Outdoor Advertising, who signed up in the July quarter, has already restored critical data using U.S. Data Trust’s service on a number of occasions, including one disaster that destroyed critical accounting information. "I was able to quickly recover all of the lost information in less than five minutes", said a grateful Ron Lewis, Controller of Adams Outdoor Advertising."When I tell people about the benefits of this service, they don't believe me, because it sounds too good to be true. The service guarantees the integrity and restorability of our data. I would recommend it to anyone - it's the best that I've ever seen."

Adams Outdoor Advertising chose the online backup system after they found that data restoration did not always work when they used a traditional tape-based backup system. Also, nightly backups and the potential for 24 hours’ of data loss was unacceptable given the dynamic nature of their business.

“U.S. Data Trust has seen strong demand for our online backup service from mid-sized companies such as Adams Outdoor Advertising,” said Paul Hrabal, President of U.S. Data Trust. “These companies appreciate that, unlike traditional tape backup solutions, our service is automated, secure and guaranteed to recover their business critical data. Our service allows a company to return to the state of their business just prior to a data loss event rather than having to revert to a previous night’s tape backup.”

Other companies who adopted the DataTrust Protect Online Backup Service have had no second thoughts. U.S. Data Trust reports that its customer retention rate is 100% and one-third of quarterly growth is from existing customers adding more data and servers.

The DataTrust Protect service is designed for customers with servers that reside outside of major data centers - such as remote or branch offices, or mid-sized businesses- and who have primarily relied on in-house tape backups to keep their data safe.

DataTrust Protect Online Backup Service is sold as a managed service with plans starting as low as $199 per month. Installation is usually completed in less than 20 minutes using a simply "point and click" web interface. Once configured, DataTrust Protect runs automatically in the background with the U.S. Data Trust Service Operations Center monitoring backup and restore operations 24 hours a day.