Data backups

[macp]

Afternoon all

I work for a small to medium sized business needing to backup our data online.We have data of around 385Gb uncompressed or about 246.3Gb very compressed.We have had quotes of anything from £25 per mth for Acronis to £240 per mth for Backupvault. We were paying around £40/45 per mth with our old backup service.

Any advice or recommendations is very welcome.

[P4ulB]

Microsoft Azure Backup might be worth looking at?

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/details/b...

[colin79666]

Azure works great for my home environment. It is fairly cheap and has the added benefits of all data remaining in the EU, which can be important to some businesses. It'll compress on the fly and encrypt before upload. Then only uploading changes in later runs.

[sparkyhx]

colin79666 said:

Azure works great for my home environment. It is fairly cheap and has the added benefits of all data remaining in the EU, which can be important to some businesses. It'll compress on the fly and encrypt before upload. Then only uploading changes in later runs.

good point about EU

[anonymous-user]

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home

$60 a year, unlimited everything...

[sparkyhx]

bandwidth will possibly be the limiting factor.

Don't forget upload speeds are significantly slower than download speeds. Then there is the backup sites speed which may further limit you. (unlikely).

[gpb1]

Backblaze. $5 a month. Unlimited and allows the backing up of USB attached storage

[steveatesh]

I just signed on with Dupplica, unlimited storage, 256 bit encryption on upload, automatic uploads after first one. $10 a year, or £7.20.

I'm not sure if they do business but worth a look, EU based server too.

[StarmistBlue400]

Obvious you are looking at cloud but if you need any 'old fashioned' tape back up devices give me a shout

[eztiger]

You don't mention your churn rate which will define the pain you have in upload.

You could also look at CrashPlan.

[jesta1865]

you could try this lot, I used to use them for a group of schools I used to support.

http://www.gigasoftdatabackup.com/

their education pricing was way better than anywhere else and their software and interface etc is quite easy to use. you do have to keep on top of how much you archive though.

don't know about their business pricing, but i imagine it's competitive.

I am not associated with them at all, just was impressed by their service etc

[BGARK]

NAS + Google Vault or Dropbox