james crowley c3 – crowley computer consulting. presentation available at
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Presentation
Available at www.crowleycomputers.com/ncts.html
Reasons for not backing up Unimportant to user or company. Lazy. Don’t understand.
When am I supposed to rotate media? Error message? What error message? Logs? What logs?
Requirements
Scheduled Monitored Redundant
Breadth – what is getting backed up Depth – how long it is getting backed up,
versions Off site Testing
Other factors
Cost effective Automated backups
Requires no user intervention Ease of monitoring Levels
Workstation Workgroup SMB Corporate
Software
Not all hardware solutions will include software.
Or they may not include adequate software.
Options Agents Open File SQL databases “Other” operating systems
Accelerating changes
Hard drive prices dropping, tape prices stable
Cloud Reliability Cost of bandwidth and ability to backup
off peak Increased trust
Disk to Tape
Advantages Local Redundancy Archiving Easy off site Known
Disadvantages Medium reliability Speed Cost
Cloud Backup Options
Many choices Beware of new companies that may
not survive. Do you need to worry about
regulations? Research, preferably third party.
If it’s a year old, it’s probably wrong. Be sure the review is current.
Some summaries and comparisons
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2288745,00.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_services
Some combination options
Buffalo Technolgy TeraStation and LinkStations
Ctera Iomega iConnect and StorCenter Qnap Turbo NAS
Carbonite Home & Home Office
Single system backups start at $59 per year, unlimited data.
Files are encrypted, then transmitted Plus adds external hard drive
capability, $99 Premium adds Courier Recovery,
$149
Carbonite Business
Business $229 per year for unlimited computers,
external hard drive and NAS devices 250GB backup
BusinessPremier $599 per year plus Windows servers 500GB backup
Additional storage $46 per year for 50GB add on, $89 for
100GB
Costs
Device CloudPlug C200 C400
Cost $199.00 $499.00 $1499.00
Drive cost Add your own 1TB to 3TB drives!
Workstation agents included
10 20 50
Cloud storage
10GB 14.99 24.99 44.99
25GB 22.49 32.49 52.49
50GB 34.99 44.99 64.99
50GB add on 25.00 25.00 25.00
Additional considerations
$199.00 Server agent for Exchange, SQL Server and Active directory backup.
Backup Effectively and Automatically
James CrowleyC3 – Crowley
Computer Consulting
www.crowleycomputers.com
315-394-7008
Questions?