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.

What is Remote Backup?

Remote Backup uses a client/server model to exchange data over the Internet. This system works basically like regular tape backups, with one important difference. Instead of sending backups to a tape drive or other media attached to the computer it is backing up, Remote Backup sends it to another computer safe and securely off-site. It does this (usually) at night while the business is closed and nobody is using the computers. It's completely automatic.

The advantages to a typical business are enormous:

1. All files are protected by state of the art 448-bit Blowfish encryption standard, only the customer can retrieve their files
2. Completely automated off-site protection
3. Fast online recovery of any version of any protected file
4. Easy installation and setup
5. Only an Internet connection is required, eliminating the need for expensive backup equipment and media
6. The backup server is monitored by highly skilled technicians whose only job is to make sure the backups are performed properly

Why off-site back-ups?

This is where almost every business makes its biggest mistake. Even if you do everything else perfectly, your backups are of little use if your building burns, or you are unable to physically recover your tapes from the premises. Most small companies who do backups leave the tapes in the building with the computer, where they can be destroyed right along with the computer. Of course, you can see that this would be a problem in a fire or an earthquake. But there are other problems.

The World Trade Center bombing is a good example. Even businesses that were doing backups and had good, undamaged tapes in the building had to shut down. Many went out of business simply because they couldn't get their data. So, they couldn't continue their business. Remote Backup solves this problem by automatically storing this valuable data at more than one site. So, a business can be back up and running with new computers and their latest data no matter what catastrophe happens.

This is how it works....

We operate an off-site storage facility for the user's data. At the facility, an account is maintained for each user. Each account is protected by a password known only to the user!

The electronic vault system is set up so that at a preset time, usually late at night the clients computer automatically wakes up and prepares its data for backup, it determines which files have been modified since the last backup, compresses them, encrypts them for security. When the data is ready the computer uses its modem or Internet connection to contact our Servers and transmit the data. Our Servers verify and store the data. They can rest assured that their data is safe, because it is stored off-site.