Spring 2014

Another data point

Brightworks provides backups to area businesses. They use <http://www.keepitsafe.com/>, and wrap their services around this. Including:

• Consulting, to ensure a good fit.
• Installation and maintenance.
• Daily monitoring, by a trained staff member, of every report for every business

Cost for 1 TB would be about $800-900 per month ($9,600 - $10,800/ year).

Cost is about $1/ GB, whereas EZ-Backup is $0.04/ GB marginal cost for quantities above ~33GB.

Challenges to doing backups: The problem to solve

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• Anything that can reduce the number of files from "100's of million" will help tremendously.
• Reducing the total amount to backup can help keep costs down and speed up restoration efforts.

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Objectives

Capability to restore system and data hardware to all-new hard drives, if necessary

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