The SOS Online Backup Service

Never lose another document again. Ever! SOS Online Backup ushers in a new age in data protection and file recovery. You can rest assured - knowing that even if the worst were to occur - the lifeblood of your business, your data, is Safe Off Site.

The SOS service provides data-protection for customers, whether they are SMEs, SOHOs, professionals at home, students, or anyone with electronic files to be protected from data-loss. SOS brings big-business IT-best-practice to small businesses and consumers.

Data will be safe – Safe Off Site

The SOS service is delivered through a software program (the SOS Windows Client) installed on the end-user’s computer. The user then tells the program what files to protect, and each night, at a configured time, (or instantaneously at the option of the user) SOS backs up any files that have changed since the previous backup. Files are backed up to a global network of SOS datacenters powered by the proprietary SOS Server and InfiniScale™ technologies. Data is compressed using proprietary SOS ShrinkRAP™ delta compression that ensures that only the changes made to files are sent over the network – dramatically reducing bandwidth consumption. It is this performance enhancement that forms the core of the SOS Designed-For-Dial-Up strategy, and gives our platform mass market appeal.

This stands in contrast to most online backup systems, which re-transfer the entire file that has changed – rather than just the modified binary subset of that file.

SOS can also be set up to intelligently watch particular folders – and to either backup all the files in that folder – or just a subset of them. For example – you can easily define a filter that says – “only backup the word documents in My Documents folder”. Simple – but powerful.

For our full range of features, visit our features page.