The FastBit™Patching Process
A Deeper Look Into The Technoloy
The FastBitTM patching process is the core technology behind our revolutionary program. The patching process involves the comparison of two different versions of the same file and extracting the differences between the files. When the differences are extracted from the two files, they are saved into a new file and compressed into what is known as a Patch. The patch file is often 85% to 99.9% smaller than the file which the patch was extracted from originally.
Applying this technology to the backup process will reduce the use of communication lines, backup tapes, and physical storage, all leading to one thing...Cost Savings! Reduce your costs without sacrificing the integrity of your backups. Here's how FastBitTM patching technology is applied to your backup process.
When the backup program encounters a file for the first time, it compresses the file and sends it securely to the backup server. Once a file has been compressed and sent to the server, never again will we send that entire file to the server. All future changes to your files will result in only the changes within the files being sent to the server. When the changes are received by the server, they are applied to your backup files creating a complete up-to-date copy of your file system. As an optional service, your daily FastBitTM Patch Backup files can be stored separately on the server allowing the flexibility of restoring any file(s) from your backup data as of any point in time.
If you're wondering about the reliability of the patching technology, there's no need to wonder anymore. This technology is not new. It has been the only choice for IBM, Microsoft, Novell, and many other hardware and software companies needing to update commercially distributed software. NoveNet - Web is the first program to tightly integrate this existing technology into a high performance backup application.
The FastBitTM patching process manipulates files at the binary level. This means it can process any file type without error. Different types of files will yield different FastBitTM patch sizes based on the binary organization of the file. We provide some FastBitTM patch statistics to illustrate this point further.
| File Type | Original File Size | Change Description | Changed File Size Patch Size | % Reduction patch/changed file | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows BMP (8-bit) |
307,514 | Added text to center of image |
308,278 | 2,615 | 99.15% |
| Microsoft Word v7.0 |
431,616 | Copied text from from middle and pasted at end |
448,512 | 13,598 | 90.60% |
| Microsoft Excel v7.0 |
108,544 | Inserted new worksheet, basic calculations, added 3D Bar-Graph |
114,176 | 5,915 | 94.82% |
| Microsoft Access v2.0 |
1,802,240 | Added 3 new records | 1,802,240 | 5,700 | 99.68% |
| Intuit QuickBooks |
1,265,664 | Paid 4 bills and added 2 invoices |
1,301,504 | 8,074 | 99.38% |
| Photoshop File | 515,473 | Added new layer and added text to new layer |
524,769 | 4,480 | 99.15% |
| Plain Text File | 37,084 | Added text to beginning, middle and end of file |
39,123 | 1,285 | 96.72% |
| Total | 4,468,135 | Average Daily Backup |
4,538,602 | 41,667 | 99.08% |