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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• 3.1TB of data (research and users)
  • On 6TB partition
• 77GB OS data
  • On 160GB partition

Cost is an issue since

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not originally budgeted.

Key take-home

• 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.

Objectives

Capability to restore system and data hardware to all-new

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hard drives, if necessary

Deal with various failures, such as:

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# May require versioning to get prior copies of since-corrupted data.

NOTE: If other hardware than hard disks are required to be replaced, OS may need to be modified

Ability to have some versioning, if not too expensive an add-on.

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HDs in a dedicated computing box.

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Option2: Out of room

HDs in a dedicated computing box.

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• $850-1,650/yr, depending on level of file compression.
• Software may not have time to process the files at each backup.

Ideas to consider for above options

Software to sync data, ideally with versioning

EZ-Backup

• See ChemIT's backup page, with links and general costs.
• See ChemIT's calculation estimating specific costs (handout, from Excel file)

CrashPlan

Compare

• http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/compare.html

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