Copies that need to arrive intact, not fast-ish
A finished production, a quarter of CCTV footage or a closed engineering project is a large, mostly static set of files that has to exist somewhere other than the office. Ordinary uploads of that size fail midway and silently deliver truncated files. Boita’s accelerated transfer engine holds your line rate over UDP, runs the job as parallel sessions, resumes by itself in the desktop app after a drop, sleep or restart, and never re-sends what is already on the server.
The server records a checksum for every file as part of the transfer and shows it in the file details. Compare it with your local copy and the archive is verified, not assumed.
A 5 TB project close-out on Scale, over a 1 Gbps office line, takes about eleven hours, line-limited: an overnight window. A 1 TB CCTV quarter on Pro over the same line takes about five hours, plan-limited at 450 Mbps. The calculator on the home page models your own line and distance.
Standing off-site copy with a watch folder
Point a watch folder at the archive share on your NAS and a folder in your workspace, from the desktop app or the headless Linux agent. New and changed files upload on their own once they have stopped changing, the queue runs in the background, and state is kept locally so a restart does not re-scan the whole tree. Allowed hours per folder and a workspace bandwidth window, enforced by the transfer server, keep the copy to overnight. Watch folders never mirror deletions: a Boita-side deletion is not applied to your NAS and a local deletion is not applied to Boita.
Trash, versions and quotas you can see
Deleted files and folders sit in the trash for a recovery window before the retention worker purges them, so a mis-click does not lose a close-out. When an upload replaces a file, the previous copy is kept as a version for the retention window. Storage usage is on every page with an email before you reach your quota. Plans include 10 GB to 10 TB of storage, custom above that, with no per-GB transfer fees on the way in or out.
An archive tier with a manifest
Aged deliveries and archive sets can be moved out of hot storage to the archive tier with a manifest, and restored on demand with the restore time shown (Scale and above); Enterprise adds retention rules per folder and legal hold. The archive tier is only ever a destination for cold data; transfers never run through it. A variant on decentralised storage with proof-of-storage is coming, on request; India-residency workspaces keep a domestic object-storage archive.
- Line-rate transfers; desktop-app resume; nothing re-sent
- Checksum on every file, visible in the details panel
- Watch folders from a NAS share; allowed hours and bandwidth windows
- Trash with a recovery window; versions when a file is replaced
- Archive tier with manifest and restore (Scale and above)