Setting Up You Internal Backup Solution

Our internet backup service is a set cost without any hidden or unexpected charges. You can budget our service out for years in advance without fear of cost over runs.

There are many costs and time-consuming steps associated with implementing your own in-house backup system (tape, DVD, Zip, RAID, SAN, NAS, etc.) that you might not be aware of.

Research Backup Solutions(time = $15 to $115 per hour)

• Researching for the best hardware
• Researching for the right software
• Researching who to buy from (best price, service, warranty, made in USA, etc.)

Purchasing Backup Equipment

• You must buy the hardware (including shipping or store transportation costs)
• You must buy the software, often times per user licensing is required
• You must buy the media (tape, zip, CD-R, Jazz, etc)
  • You need 9 sets of media, 5 for Monday through Friday and 4 for an offsite rotation of week 1 through
• You must replace the media at least once a year for reliability.
• Often you must purchase software updates

Backup System Installation

• You must install the hardware…properly
• You install the software…correctly.
• You must learn the software
• You must educate everyone else on how to use the backups
• You must test the backups for successful restores
• Pray that everything is setup correctly when you did it

Implementation /Maintenance

• You must remember to run the backup every day
  • If you are not physically running your backups every day that means you are not properly rotating your daily backups…a big no no.
• You must rotate your tapes or media every day for versioning
• You must take your backups offsite every day
• Periodically you must run preventative maintenance and cleaning of the hardware
• Every year you need to replace your media for reliability.

Backup Plan Upgrades

• You will always outgrow your backup solution within a couple years and will have to repeat this process again.
• Everything that you will have bought today will be outdated and obsolete within a year or two and be worth nothing.

Data Recovery Issues

• The ONLY think that counts is a successful recovery when you need it. If you cannot recover your data, then you will have wasted every minute and every dollar you ever spent of data backups up until that point.