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“I plan on selling my expensive tape back up and
software on eBay.”
— Linda Slater-Dowling
ASAP Promotions
“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
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*$10 more for monthly billing.
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Rewritable DVD Drive Backup Overview
DVD drive cost: $100-$250, blank 4.8 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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