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“I plan on selling my expensive tape back
up and software on eBay.”
— Linda Slater-Dowling
ASAP
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“Our experience with Remote Data Backups
has been outstanding. Previously we endured the hassle of backing up our large
files onto tape...and many times we would not remember to perform the
backup...or we would elect to "forget" to do the backup. It would take 15-25
minutes of time ...so it was more than inconvenience to back up files...It also
was costly to take the time as that time could have been devoted to customers
and more business.”
— Brian Hogan
AIA Owner
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Disadvantages of
DVD Backup
DVD Drives are NOT the answer to properly
backing up your data offsite every night.
Just the cost of a DVD drive can be more than a
year of our service, but without the security of having the data stored safely
offsite. Every time you make a backup with a DVD drive, you will typically
spend $3 on the blank DVD-R media itself...about the same cost per day as our
30 GB solution.
Add the time it takes you to physically run the backup
(5-10 minutes) and the time it takes you to take that data offsite and you will
quickly see that you will spend more on time than you would if you deployed
Remote Data Backups. DVDs are a relatively new technology and their long-term
reliability has not been proven. DVD-RW is less reliable than DVD-R, and
multiple DVD-R disks per day can become very expensive. |
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Plans starting under $10/mo
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Rewritable DVD Drive Backup Overview
DVD drive cost: $100-$250, blank 4.7 GB DVD-R cost: $1-$5
each
- How long does it take you to back up each time . . .
actual time?
- Is the 4.8 GB limitation on DVD-Rs ever an obstacle?
- Do you have more than 4.8 GB of data to backup?
- Do you have to use multiple DVD-Rs?
- How much time does that take you?
- What quality of DVD-Rs do you use (are they more than $5
each)?
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