Remote Backup Service

Matrosity Hosting offers offsite remote backup software that allows you to safely and inexpensively encrypt, compress and remotely backup your files over the Internet connection you already have without any expensive additional hardware.

Remote Backup Client Software FAQ

Q: What is FastBIT technology?

FastBIT is the most effective incremental backup technology available today. It uses a complex algorithm to precisely identify the changes that have been made to any type of file since the last backup. These changes are transmitted to the Matrosity Hosting Backup Servers, requiring minimal bandwidth. Once the server receives these changes, it can combine them with the previous backup to form an identical copy of your current file. In order to perform a FastBIT backup, the software has to backup the files 3 times: the first backup is a full, the next backup will perform an incremental, on the third and thereafter a FastBIT backup.

Q: Why is FastBIT important to me?

Speed! The efficiency of FastBIT will dramatically reduce the time required to backup your data from any network location, include slow dialup connections.

Q: What platforms do you support?

Our remote backup client software can be installed on any Windows 98 SE, Me, NT, 2000, 2003 or XP computer. The client software communicates to the Matrosity Hosting Backup Servers using the TCP/IP protocol.

Q: Can I backup other platforms with the backup client software?

The backup client software will only run natively on Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, 2003 and XP. If you want to backup computers with other operating systems, it is possible. Here's how! Since the backup client supports mapped network drives and the "Network Neighborhood", it can backup data from any computer that is accessible via the network. A single client can backup the local computer and any number of local or remote network computers using the client's easy to use interface. The key here is the SMB protocol. Linux and Unix users should be familiar with SMB and Samba. Contact Matrosity Hositng for more information.